Tweetdeck founder a millionaire after Twitter pays £25m for London start-up May 24, 2011 LONDON-BASED TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth became an overnight millionaire yesterday after selling the firm to Twitter for around $40m (£25m) in cash and shares. It is not yet clear if Dodsworth, who founded TweetDeck in 2008, will retain a stake in the company or become part of the management team. The former BSkyB and Pru [...]
Tweetdeck founder a millionaire after Twitter pays £25m for London start-up May 24, 2011 LONDON-BASED TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth became an overnight millionaire yesterday after selling the firm to Twitter for around $40m (£25m) in cash and shares. It is not yet clear if Dodsworth, who founded TweetDeck in 2008, will retain a stake in the company or become part of the management team. The former BSkyB and Pru [...]
Murdoch looks to F1 takeover April 20, 2011 News Corp could have the financial clout to force through a deal for Formula One, despite its boss Bernie Ecclestone saying the owners will not sell, sources sais yesterday.. Rupert Murdoch is understood to be in talks with Mexican telecoms billionaire Carlos Slim to launch an audacious bid for one of the most prized assets [...]
RETURN TO SENDER: ROYAL MAIL SPINNER POSTS P45 TO ITV’S PR May 25, 2011 ALL GOOD things come to an end, and so it is that ITV is parting company with Tulchan, its financial public relations adviser of four years, The Capitalist can reveal. The commercial broadcaster, whose new press chief is former Independent and Sunday Telegraph journalist Mary Fagan, has told Tulchan it wants a regime change among [...]
Virgin Media’s revenues grow but new customer rate slows April 20, 2011 VIRGIN MEDIA yesterday reported a 5.7 per cent jump in revenues despite a drop of almost 50 per cent in new customer additions. The company added just 20,200 new users this quarter, down from 38,300 last year. Its TV customer additions were even more anaemic, with just 10,100 new ones – a 70 per cent [...]
Focus on: small businesses under the microscope August 7, 2011 WHEN T-Mobile called and asked if we wanted to sit in on one of their small business focus groups, we couldn’t say no. This year has been huge for entrepreneurs. The Prime Minister David Cameron passed them the gauntlet, asking them to revive our economy. So important he felt this responsibility, he dedicated his keynote [...]
Focus on: small businesses under the microscope August 7, 2011 WHEN T-Mobile called and asked if we wanted to sit in on one of their small business focus groups, we couldn’t say no. This year has been huge for entrepreneurs. The Prime Minister David Cameron passed them the gauntlet, asking them to revive our economy. So important he felt this responsibility, he dedicated his keynote [...]
UK public finances still in sorry state June 22, 2011 SLOWLY but surely, the government is regaining control over public spending. Yet there is still a long way to go: the deficit, believe it or not, has actually been higher so far this financial year than it was during the same two-month period of 2010. This deeply depressing fact shows just how detached from reality [...]
UK public finances still in sorry state June 21, 2011 SLOWLY but surely, the government is regaining control over public spending. Yet there is still a long way to go: the deficit, believe it or not, has actually been higher so far this financial year than it was during the same two-month period of 2010. This deeply depressing fact shows just how detached from reality [...]
REVEALED: HOW RICHARD DESMOND FIRST DRUMMED UP NEW BUSINESS June 1, 2011 EVERYONE has to start somewhere. Even Richard Desmond, the media baron with a personal fortune of £950m who bought Channel Five last July with some spare change he found down the back of his sofa. Desmond started on the road to founding his media empire early – aged 13, in fact, when he took his [...]