Henry Cavill to head up new Amazon show for FTSE 250 darling Games Workshop December 20, 2022 Henry Cavill is to head up a new Warhammer 40k TV series for Amazon, with the announcement coming just days after his time as Superman appeared to have been cut short, and he announced he was leaving Netflix series The Witcher. The rollercoaster week, which began with heartbreak for fans of fantasy series The Witcher [...]
Just Eat gets standard stock listing December 20, 2022 Food delivery app Just Eat switched to a standard listing on the London Stock Exchange. Previously, it held a ‘premium listing’. A premium listing comes with additional caveats and with the standard listing, trade for Just Eat stocks is easier. Along with its listing on LSE, it remains listed Euronext Amsterdam. The company holds 45 [...]
UK government stumps up £12m to make 5G tech green and accessible December 20, 2022 The Department of Culture, Media and Sport is funding a £12m international project to make 5G telecommunication green and more accessible across the UK. The project named Towards Ubiquitous 3D Open Resilient Network (TUDOR) plans to use AI to improve the efficiency of 5G and in due course 6G infrastructures. TUDOR is led by the [...]
Elon Musk: Claim that poll about quitting was to catch bots is ‘interesting’ December 20, 2022 Elon Musk has called the idea that his poll on whether to remain Twitter’s chief executive was intended to catch bots “interesting”. Musk was replying to internet entrepreneur and political activist Kim Dotcom on Twitter who said: “I’m hoping that Elon did this poll as a honeypot to catch all the deep state bots.” Since [...]
BBC 3, ITV 1: Beeb pulls in three times as many viewers as rival for World Cup final December 19, 2022 The World Cup final may have been a close run contest but the same can’t be said of the competition for UK audience between the BBC and ITV, according to viewing figures. Both terrestrial channels broadcast the final, which Argentina won on penalties after a thrilling 3-3 draw with defending champions France. The BBC’s peak [...]
Twitter embroiled in row with EU as Musk flip-flops over policy changes December 19, 2022 Elon Musk led Twitter into disagreements with the EU, other social media platforms and its users over the weekend. Twitter’s new CEO has continued his spree of rash decisions, and on Saturday suspended the accounts of journalists who had been covering the social media platform. This included accounts of journalists from BBC, The New York [...]
Netflix banks on Harry and Meghan to bring the big bucks December 15, 2022 Netflix is counting on the final three episodes of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s docu-series to give their viewership an end of the year bump. The online streaming service lost over 1.2 m subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, and its share prices had declined by over 60 per cent by October. Netflix had [...]
Publishers’ digital revenue on way up despite despite inflationary pressure December 15, 2022 Digital revenue is on the way up as recruitment sites lead the way for online growth. A new report from the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) and Deloitte found total digital revenue for the third quarter of this year was up by 2.7 per cent from last year to £153.5m. Recruitment sites continued to see the strongest [...]
I’m A Celeb and Qatar World Cup rescue Scotland broadcaster STV’s ad revenue dip December 15, 2022 Scotland’s premier TV station STV had a slight dip in advertising revenue from 2021’s record year, but it’s still up on pre-pandemic. The broadcaster said its intake from ads was only two per cent down on last year, and eight per cent up on 2019. its total ad revenue was three per cent down in [...]
BBC must boost digital to stand up to Netflix December 14, 2022 The BBC must boost its digital leadership if it’s going to keep up with US streaming giants, says a new report. The National Audit Office said that although the broadcaster had made strides in establishing its online presence with the iPlayer, the tech was lagging behind the likes of Netflix. While Netflix has a budget of [...]