Battle for the next stage of TV heats up August 26, 2010 DESPITE the ubiquity of the internet, television viewing habits on both sides of the Atlantic remain doggedly traditional. However, the battle for control of the next generation of TV viewers is hotting up. Manufacturers, such as Samsung are already rolling out internet-ready TVs as they prepare for a monumental shift in viewing habits. BBC’s hugely [...]
TOP FOREX STAR TAKES TIME OUT FROM RBS August 24, 2010 A BLOW for the Royal Bank of Scotland – and, by extension, to the rest of us – as one of the most celebrated foreign exchange traders in the City hops out of the bank’s revolving door. Mark Barnes stepped up to the role of global head of forex trading at RBS last year, and [...]
Why the unconventional approach to global income can pay dividends August 24, 2010 FOR a manager of a billion-pound global fund that is more than a century old, Bruce Stout, fund manager for Murray International Investment Trust and a senior portfolio manager on the global equities team at Aberdeen Asset Management, holds few conventional views about the markets, the economy, and stock-picking. For a start, at a time [...]
Pub footie fans could spoil BT’s sports plans August 23, 2010 NEW research shows that more than a third of 18-34 year-olds who are planning to watch Premier League football on TV this season will not watch the games at home. The research, carried out by YouGov, does not bode well for BT, which has launched a new football package in a desperate bid to compete [...]
High achievers look beyond red bricks August 17, 2010 TOMORROW is a date that thousands of families across England and Wales will have indelibly committed to memory. Far from being merely another summer’s day, Thursday 19 August 2010 is A-Level “results day”, a make-or-break day for the career and life plans of thousands of 17 and 18-year-olds. For many, results day will simply confirm [...]
BT has signed up as few as 60,000 to its sports package, say insiders August 15, 2010 BT’S offering of Sky Sports 1 and 2 was hailed as a lynch-pin of the firm’s transformation into a big player in the pay-TV market. But industry insiders estimate that it has only signed up around 60,000 sports customers, despite spending tens of millions promoting the service. BT Vision has struggled to compete with the [...]
BAA staff set to strike over wages August 12, 2010 UK AIRPORTS are set to face chaos in the coming weeks after BAA staff in the Unite union voted three-to-one in favour of strike action yesterday. Unite, which represents two-thirds of BAA’s workforce, said the vote showed the firm’s offer of a one per cent basic pay rise was “derisory”. Union heads will meet on [...]
Taking on Sky is a risky Vision for BT August 9, 2010 INthe run up to the new football season there is a fascinating encounter taking place off the field as BT Vision tries to take on the might of BSkyB in the showing of live football. BT Vision, boosted by a ruling from the regulator on the price that Sky can sell its sports channels to [...]
BT says sports package has a good take-up August 9, 2010 FIRST blood was drawn by Manchester United against bitter rivals Chelsea in the new football season last weekend. But a battle of equally epic proportions is heating up off the pitch, with BT claiming its new sports package, which is significantly undercutting Sky, is building momentum. BT Vision chief executive Marc Watson told City A.M. [...]
Sky has already seen off challenges from rivals Setanta and ITV Digital August 9, 2010 BT SAYS its sports offering is the first step in an aggressive expansion into pay-TV it hopes will eat away at Sky’s dominance of the market (at last count Sky was tantalisingly close to 10m subscribers, while BT is languishing with less than 500,000). But BT would do well to bear in mind the cautionary [...]