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Apple has Netflix and Amazon in sights as it hires British TV executive

Channel 4’s Jay Hunt who poached Bake Off from BBC and commissioned hit shows like Sherlock appointed creative chief of European video operations

UK’s £1bn TV and film sales industry under threat from new regulations

European commission working on allowing broadcasters to make online service available across Europe, which ‘threatens’ future content

Sky chief gets £11.5m share payout as it reports profits slide

Broadcaster to hire 300 new R&D staff to fight Netflix and Amazon challenge amid rise in Premier League costs

Trump, fake news, and shrinking newsrooms: does journalism still matter in 2017?

Discussions about the future of journalism have broken out of the newsroom and into Australia’s public debate. How will society adjust its information needs?

Amazon moves into UK live music starting with Blondie London gig

US company to expand music strategy with Prime Live Events, in latest move to attract subscribers

French advertising giant pulls out of Google and YouTube

Havas becomes first major global marketing company to pull entire ad spend after talks with tech company break down

Sorrell: companies that offend good governance tend to perform better

WPP chief praises Rupert Murdoch’s Fox, Facebook and Snap as he forecasts tougher market in 2017

Comparethemarket ads lead way as online firms become top TV spenders

Comparison sites and Amazon boost spending on the small screen – but Google and Facebook cut campaigns

Why New Zealand’s journalists should push for a new form of ownership

As the regulator listens to arguments over a proposed publishing merger it is time to consider a radical, not-for-profit, solution to the crisis

Daily Mail group refuses to rule out sale of newspaper titles

Admission by DMGT chief Paul Zwillenberg follows news of a 23% fall in profits and a double-digit slide in print ad revenue

Soaring Disney Studios hopes for $7bn fairytale ending to its year

Its systematic buying spree to acquire franchises and talent has now put the company in sight of a global box-office record

What will AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner mean for customers?

One of the largest acquisitions of all time, the merger will likely provide a less clunky experience between devices – but with more targeted advertising

This is Spinal Tap star sues Vivendi for $125m in profits row

Harry Shearer alleges parent company of Universal Music and StudioCanal withheld millions of dollars in profits owed to creators of rock mockumentary

Spotify UK revenues surge to almost £190m as mobile subscriptions take off

World’s biggest music streaming service saw total UK revenues rise by 18% from £159m to £187.2m last year

Netflix paid less than £400,000 in UK corporation tax last year

Entertainment firm, which is set to make $8bn in global revenues this year and has 80m subscribers, employs 13 staff in UK

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  • Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out
  • How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
  • Crackdown on tech platforms will go ahead despite US intervention, says No 10
  • Peabo Bryson obituary
  • Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
  • ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
  • All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth
  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
  • Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
  • Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
  • Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire
  • ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
  • Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
  • White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s
  • Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York
  • Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns
  • Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance
  • Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?
  • World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
  • French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations
  • Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say
  • Child sexual abuse victims in England and Wales to get help to remove online images
  • OpenAI confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
  • Apple debuts revamped ‘Siri AI’ and new child safety features for iPhones and iPads
  • The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power
  • Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns
  • Child phone nudity law could largely end online child sexual abuse if widely adopted, Jess Phillips claims – as it happened
  • Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
  • If Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return

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