By Stephen Foster on March 29, 2012
Remember ITV Digital, OnDigital in its first incarnation? It was the pay-TV business set up by Carlton and Granada (who subsequently came together as ITV) which briefly challenged Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB in the UK pay TV business. ITV Digital eventually subsided in 2002 leaving ITV £1bn or so out of pocket, the most spectacular of [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2002 closure, australian financial review, BBC, Chase Carey, cisco, damages, hackers, itv digital, nds, news corporation, news of the world, ondigital, panorama, pbs frontline, permira, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, surrey police, £1bn losses
By Stephen Foster on June 3, 2011
They do things differently in Japan, where else would you find a company like Yamaha that makes both motorbikes and pianos successfully? But the once-mighty Sony has become a truly rambling conglomerate, rather like Philips in Europe used to be but more so, chasing a commercial turnaround by gambling on what it thinks is the [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged annual loss, bravia tv, copycats, hackers, japan, japanese tsunami, luiz security, philips, Playstation, samsung, Sir Howard Stringer, Sony, sony pictures, south korea, yamaha
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