Digital TV helps Channel 4 weather the recession
Broadcaster's digital services and costcutting helped it to offset loss of advertising revenues on main channel. By Jason Deans
AOL ‘to offload Bebo for under $10m’
Private investment firm Criterion Capital Partners reported to be lining up deal to buy struggling social network. By Mark Sweney
Online to outstrip papers in ad revenue
The internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest US advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010 to 2014
Apple’s iAd iPhone advertising platform claims $60m in pre-launch bookings
Deals for advertising on iPhone and iPod Touch apps represent almost half of forecast US mobile ad spending, Apple says. By Mark Sweney
UBC Media back in profit following torrid decade
Multimedia content supplier to BBC announces 40% year-on-year revenue growth, citing 2007 restructure as pivotal. By Mark Sweney
Apple’s iTunes ‘faces US inquiry’
US justice department making preliminary inquiries into tech giant's activities in the digital music market, say reports
Murdoch paywalls break ‘basic rules of marketing’, says Future’s Stevie Spring
Magazine company chief executive wishes pay experiment well, but builds own digital revenue on other assumptions. By Mark Sweney
TalkTalk’s Charles Dunstone comes out fighting for Project Canvas
Partner in video-on-demand venture scorns criticism from BSkyB and Virgin Media, but expects further scrunity. By Mark Sweney
Perez Hilton offered $20m for website
Powerful gossip blogger to consider deal tabled by rivals Zack Taylor and Nik Richie, according to Gawker. By Mark Sweney
Channel 4 boosts Film4’s budget by 20%
Development and financing budgets at broadcaster's film-making arm return to pre-downturn level. By Jason Deans
Google ‘still world’s top brand’
Internet giant leads world's top 100 most powerful brands for fourth year running, as Facebook again fails to make list. By Mark Sweney
Virgin Media beats expectations with 38,000 new cable households
Net gain in subscribers is largest since company formed from merger of NTL and Telewest, with big leap in internet customers. By Mark Sweney
Samsung to launch £8m 3D TV ad campaign
3D advert masterminded by Mikah Martin-Cruz, the man behind the award-winning Sony Bravia ads. By Mark Sweney
Bebo’s UK losses revealed
Social networking site's profits fell 143% in 12 months to the end of May 2009, leading parent AOL to opt for sell-off or closure. By Mark Sweney
Joanna Shields leaves Shine joint venture with Elisabeth Murdoch to join Facebook
The former Bebo president has left a joint venture after just a few months to join Facebook as a vice-president of sales and business development. By Mark Sweney