Classic movie collection up for sale

The world's largest collection of silent movies, including those starring Buster Keaton, has been put up for sale with its vendors expecting interest from film enthusiasts, universities, picture archives and other media businesses

Bid for Yahoo expected to go higher

The Yahoo board met to discuss Microsoft's controversial $44.6bn bid for the company amid speculation that the software group will increase its offer. By Richard Wray

TV quiz row reduces BT revenues

The scandals around premium-rate TV quiz lines and a drop-off in business with mobile phone and rival broadband firms saw BT miss the City's expectations for third quarter revenues. By Richard Wray

Time Warner profits meet expectations

Time Warner, owner of AOL, CNN and Time magazine, reported profit of $1.03bn in the fourth quarter of 2007. By Mark Sweney

Amazon teams up with Lovefilm

The deal will bring together the two firms' competing UK film rentals businesses with a combined subscriber base if nearly one million people

Gates v Google: Microsoft’s search for a future on the net

Bill's bid for Yahoo is a sign of seismic changes in IT, says James Robinson

Doctor Brilliant

He helped beat smallpox and saved 3m people's sight. Now the first techno-philanthropist has an even more ambitious task. Spending $2bn of Google's money. By Bobbie Johnson

Microsoft tries to buy way into 21st century

Vic Keegan: Microsoft's bid for Yahoo is a public confession of failure: an admission that Microsoft has failed to build up an effective presence on its own in key areas

Throughout the 90s Yahoo was king of the net. Then came Google

Despite its headstart in web search, Yahoo's painful struggles have been all too public for years. By Andrew Clark

Microsoft/Yahoo ad threat to rivals

The combined businesses of Microsoft and Yahoo could provide a staunch competitor to Google in the $80bn-a-year online advertising market. By Mark Sweney

News International backs online boutique

News International has made a multimillion-pound investment in online fashion company BrandAlley. By Mark Sweney

65 jobs at risk in SimplySwitch closure

Daily Mail and General Trust is to close price comparison website SimplySwitch just 18 months after acquiring the business in a deal worth £22m. By Mark Sweney

Reuters streams Davos breakfast show

The World Economic Forum in Davos will include a Reuters breakfast TV show and see Sir Martin Sorrell become a 'mobile journalist'. By Mark Sweney

Getty Images put up for sale with a £770m tag

The 'for sale' sign has been hoisted above the picture archive that featured in Stephen Poliakoff's 1998 BBC serial Shooting the Past. By Richard Wray

UK film industry falters as writers’ strike bites

The US screenwriters' strike and the weak dollar dented the UK film industry last year, according to figures released today by the UK Film Council