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Sugar resigns from YouView

Lord Alan Sugar

Boardroom bust-up with Channel 5 owner Richard Desmond

Letter Sugar’s TV role is to ruffle feathers
John Lloyd Sugar and spite and all things trite

5:56pm

WPP in strong start to year

Revenues and gross margins boosted

Christopher Caldwell from COMMENT 6:38pm

Coaxers and coercers on common ground

Two books about behaviour change share a loss of faith in an educable public

From LEX 5:25pm

WPP: it all ads up

Ad world proves resilient, but companies have to keep winning ugly

Mar 1, 2013

UBM’s cautious forecasts spooks investors

Shares in events organiser fall almost 5%

From TECHNOLOGY Mar 1, 2013

Google wins German copyright battle

Search engine will not need to pay publishers for news snippets

From TELECOMS Mar 1, 2013

BSkyB buys Telefónica’s UK broadband arm

Deal follows Virgin Media sale to Liberty Global

Mar 1, 2013

Bertelsmann takes control of BMG

Deal makes German group major player in music industry

Andrew Mason

©Bloomberg From TECHNOLOGY Mar 1, 2013

Groupon sacks Mason as chief executive

Departure of founder leaves daily deals group divided

Lombard from FINANCIALS Feb 28, 2013

EU left strikes a blow for top bankers

Bonus ratio will just increase the fixed pay of staff

From RETAIL & CONSUMER Feb 28, 2013

Sears chief heralds retail upheaval

Companies seek new ideas in face of weak sales

From WORLD Feb 28, 2013

ISPs ordered to block ‘pirate’ websites

High Court ruling is victory for copyright holders

From WORLD Feb 28, 2013

S African police watchdog probes death

Officers investigated for dragging man tied to back of police van

From WORLD Feb 28, 2013

UK internet use doubles in six years

More than two-thirds of adults go online every day

Feb 28, 2013

Reed Elsevier plans further £300m buyback

Publisher continues to sell advertising-reliant businesses

Feb 27, 2013

ITV to give shareholders £156m windfall

Broadcaster claims to be making ‘great strides’

Feb 27, 2013

DreamWorks Animation writes down $165m

Box-office failure of Rise of the Guardians hits studio

Feb 26, 2013

Cablevision sues Viacom over bundling

Cable operator says it is forced to carry little-watched channels

Feb 26, 2013

Route’s travel map to keep ads on target

Outdoor advertisers complete largest survey of trip habits

From WORLD Feb 26, 2013

BBC hires Channel 4 chief

Bulford recruited as chief operating officer and head of finance

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The FT’s Ben Bland visits West Java to see how mobile commerce has spread in rural Indonesia

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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg ringing Nasdaq's opening bell in Menlo Park...Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg remotely rings the Nasdaq's opening bell in Menlo Park, California, in this May 18, 2012 handout photo courtesy of Facebook. Investors are bracing for Facebook's Wall Street debut on Friday after the world's No.1 online social network raised about $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in U.S. history.

©Reuters Blake Ross, a director of product at Facebook, joins the growing list of employees to decamp

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Pinterest, the online scrapbooking site, has been valued at $2.5bn after raising $200m

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