Vodafone Business CEO steps down as mobile giant battles European sales slowdown March 16, 2023 The chief executive of Vodafone Business will leave the mobile giant at end of this year, it has been announced. Vinod Kumar will continue to run the business until 31 December before pursuing a portfolio career. This comes after the dramatic stepping-down of Vodafone Group’s former CEO Nick Read in December 2022, with Margherita Della [...]
Daily Mail publisher DMGT appoints new chief executive weeks after announcing plans to make ‘some reductions’ in staff March 14, 2023 The Daily Mail’s parent company has announced Tim Collier as its new chief executive. Collier joined the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) in 2017 as its chief financial officer, being at the centre of its decision to go private in 2012. He previously worked as CFO of Thomson Reuters Financial and Risk Business. Earlier [...]
Unfriended: Facebook owner Meta to cut 10,000 job and close of 5,000 vacancies as tech crunch continues March 14, 2023 Facebook owner Meta will sack 10,000 of its staff and close 5,000 vacancies as the tech sector continues to slim down in a bid to cut losses. In a post on facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement, saying it was being done with a view to both helping it “improve our financial performance” and [...]
Elon Musk: Gary Lineker takes aim at Twitter boss after son gets threatening messages March 14, 2023 Gary Lineker has questioned Twitter owner Elon Musk after a threatening message was sent to his son in the wake of the sports presenter’s row with the BBC. The former footballer, who was reinstated as host of Match Of The Day (MOTD) on Monday, re-shared a private message which said his eldest son, George, should [...]
Gary Lineker to return as host of Match of the Day: BBC apologises for ‘confusion by grey areas’ March 13, 2023 Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker will continue as a BBC presenter after the corporation apologised for a “difficult period for staff, contributors, presenters, and most importantly, our audiences”. A host of sports presenters and pundits pulled out of BBC shows at the weekend after the former England striker was told to step back [...]
Does the BBC’s Gary Lineker row show that the government has a problem with football? March 12, 2023 The weather forecast finished and then suddenly there it was: the BBC’s hurried replacement for Match of the Day following its spectacular bungling of the Gary Lineker row. Shorn of its theme tune, opening title, studio, presenter, pundits, commentators and about an hour of running time, this was bleak and surreal; a sort of post-apocalyptic [...]
Musk says sorry to sacked Twitter worker after exchange claiming he does ‘no actual work’ went viral March 8, 2023 Twitter owner Elon Musk has apologised to a sacked worker after their exchange on the social media platform went viral. Icelandic entrepreneur Halli Thorleifsson had sent a direct public tweet to the billionaire after he was locked out of his work’s computer system, telling Musk he could not get HR to respond to him. Musk [...]
Reach: Mirror, Star and Express publisher suffers heavy losses as costs up 40 per cent and ads dry up March 7, 2023 The publisher of the Daily Mirror and Express newspapers has revealed that annual profits tumbled by more than a quarter as it saw costs surge by 40 per cent and a drop in advertising demand. Reach, which also owns the Daily Star and a raft of regional titles across the UK, posted underlying pre-tax profits [...]
Twitter: Trolling, disinformation and exploitation rife since Musk takeover, BBC Panorama claims March 6, 2023 An explosive BBC Panorama documentary this evening will claim Twitter is failing to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation. The deep-dive programme at 8pm on Monday features a raft of insiders at the social media company, building on academic researched shared with the broadcaster. This comes after billionaire Tesla owner Elon [...]
Sir Frederick Barclay facing next round of High Court divorce fight with ex wife March 6, 2023 Retired businessman Sir Frederick Barclay is to face the next round of a High Court fight over money with his ex-wife. A judge ordered Sir Frederick, 88, to hand Lady Hiroko Barclay, 80, lump sums totalling £100 million in May 2021 following the breakdown of their 34-year marriage. Sir Jonathan Cohen said at the time [...]