There will be approximately 27 million ‘e-workers’ across Europe by the end of the decade, according to the UK Institute for Employment Studies (IES). Currently, more than 9 million people, or 6% of the entire European workforce, have a job which involves an element of IT. By 2010, this will have risen to a sixth… Continue reading Number Of Euro ‘E-workers’ To Treble By 2010
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The market’s fear of the internet, prevalent since the collapse of the dotcom ‘bubble’, may now be showing signs of waning, as the number of company closures begins to fall. The fall-out of the internet and technology markets over the last couple of years has led to the demise of a large number of companies,… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Is Investor Confidence In The Web Returning?
By 2006, Germany will have overtaken the UK to become Europe’s most profitable digital pay-TV market, according to business information company, Datamonitor. The UK market was rated the most valuable in Europe last year, bringing in $3.5 billion in revenues. By contrast, the preponderance of free to air channels and licence free public funded channels… Continue reading Germany Set To Take Digital Crown
Pace Micro Technology, the set-top box manufacturer, announced today that profits had fallen 70% year on year, reflecting a lack of growth in the digital TV market. Pre-tax profits, before one-off costs, for the year to June totalled £13.1 million, down from £44.3 million for the same period last year. Similarly, sales dropped by a… Continue reading Falling Profits Force Pace To Take Action
Despite expectations of the beginning of a recovery in advertising market conditions in the second half of the year, the outlook still remains decidedly unclear. A US mid-year media conference last month heard key players talk about the bottom of the recession, rather than the beginning of a period of genuinely strong growth. This assessment… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Media Healthcheck – June 2002
Faster internet connections and lowering prices will not be enough to induce the widespread adoption of broadband services in the UK, says a new report from PPAinteractive. In the past month, BT, AOL and Telewest have all introduced new high-speed internet services and according to a recent report from Oftel (see Cheap UK Broadband Internet… Continue reading Broadband Providers Must Look Beyond Price, Says PPAi
The switch-off of the analogue television signal throughout European countries is unlikely to occur before 2015, later than the 2010 target that many governments are hoping to achieve, according to analysts at Lehman Brothers. In a new report on the European digital terrestrial television (DTT) market, the broker says that take-up of the platform will… Continue reading European Analogue TV Switch-Off Unlikely Before 2015
Pearson has today ended speculation that it was prepared to sell its FT Business magazines by confirming that the titles are to be retained within the organisation. A management team led by Stephen Hill, former chief executive of the Financial Times Group, had tabled a bid, believed to be in the region of £80 million,… Continue reading Pearson Opts To Keep FT Business
After the most traumatic week in its short history, the French media group, Vivendi Universal, is in the process of effecting a rescue package which the management hopes will enable it to avoid a E1.8 billion shortfall. The heavily-indebted company is believed to have only E2.4 billion in cash reserves as well as unused credit… Continue reading Vivendi Launches Debt Relief Strategy
The number of digital cable TV subscribers in France increased by 30% in a year, according to the country’s organisation of cable operators, Aform. Figures show that at the end of March this year, there were 710,000 people viewing digital television via cable. Meanwhile, cable internet subscriptions had reached 210,000, a rise of 40% year… Continue reading French Turning On To Cable, Says Research