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Guardian losses to increase "significantly" 
Posted on  29-05-2010 02:51:57 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Losses at the Guardian Media Group are to increase significantly according to the outgoing Chief Executive.

Carolyn McCall, who is heading to EasyJet blamed the continuing downturn on write-downs on its investments.

Staff was told that pre-tax losses in the 12-months to March would be larger that the ...


  
Sky to seal Virgin channel deal - May buy Five 
Posted on  29-05-2010 12:19:36 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Business Desk

Sky is about to become even more dominant in the UK cable TV market by buying Virgin Media's TV channels, Virgin1, Living, Bravo and Challenge.

Virgin have been toying with selling their wholly owned cable channels for a while, and Sky has been a key bidder thoughout, despite ...


  
Cameron's hints at interest rates rise 
Posted on  29-05-2010 08:28:25 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  City News Desk

- Interest rates likely to go up next year
- Fears of Capital Gains tax increase


City News Desk

The week that saw the prospect of Capital Gains tax hitting 40%, the Prime Minister of the coalition government, has said that inflation ...

  
Mobile music downloads 'a flop' - App market soars 
Posted on  21-05-2010 03:06:29 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Business Desk

New stats from research company comScore claim that over-the-air downloads to mobile phones have failed to take off in North America and Western Europe, with less than two percent of people polled downloading music direct to their mobile in the last quarter, even though 24% said that they ...


  
HMV Chief on diversification, ITunes and extending the brand 
Posted on  15-05-2010 03:12:02 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Business Desk

Simon Fox is the head of the UK's last remaining high street entertainment chain and oversees the MAMA Group empire that runs some of London's iconic music venues. Our friends at the CMU Network caught up with the top man at this weekend's Great Escape Festival on Brighton's ...


  
Sir Stelios resigns from Easyjet board to lead shareholder rebellion 
Posted on  15-05-2010 02:43:45 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has resigned from the Easyjet board to lead a shareholders rebellion.

The 43-year-old founder of the no frills airline says he is unhappy with the way the company operates. Also walking is director, Bob Rothenberg, and represented the holding company on the airline's board ...


  
Times staff slashed weeks before Murdoch pay walls erected - Budgets cut across titles 
Posted on  14-05-2010 01:15:10 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

Just weeks before the most audacious revenue bid in British journalism history, The Times has moved to cut jobs and slash budgets across its sister totals.

An internal memo revealed that up to 50 members of staff will go and News International's Sun and News of the World ...


  
EMI set for second bailout - Citigroup 'unlikely to sell' 
Posted on  14-05-2010 10:33:32 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Business Desk

Private equity group Terra Firma are set to bail out London based music music firm EMI once again.

According to the Wall Street Journal, top man Gary 'the Guy' Hands has gotten the all-clear from enough of his investors to fund the company - meaning Citigroup are not ...


  
Europe warns Cameron "you are on your own" if pound hit by financial crisis 
Posted on  12-05-2010 06:20:00 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  City News Desk

City News Desk

Prime Minister David Cameron and his coalition government will not be helped by Euro-zone member states of the European Union, if the pound suffers a financial crisis, following Britain’s refusals to sign up to the bail-out package agreed yesterday in the EU.

The ...


  
First major job cuts after election result, RBS 2,600 job losses 
Posted on  10-05-2010 03:16:19 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  City News Desk

City News Desk – 3:20pm

The Royal Bank of Scotland has just announced it is cutting 2,600 jobs, the first major British company after the general election to announce job cuts, bringing the total number of employee’s in the state-owned lender to 22,600 since the banking ...


 
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