Microsoft has held talks with News Corp about pulling its content from Google, according to a report in today’s Financial Times.

The nineteen largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 93% of the market – acquired 910,000 net additional high-speed internet subscribers in the third quarter of 2009, according to new research from Leichtman Research Group.

A new study has found that global consumers are willing to pay for news – especially from online national and local newspapers – on their personal computers and mobile devices.

Centaur Media saw revenue fall 28% year on year in the three months to the end of October.

Aegis has reported a 10.8% year on year fall in underlying organic revenues for the nine months ending 30 September.

Living, the entertainment channel owned by Virgin Media, is rebranding its whole portfolio, with new channel Livingit replacing Living2.

The latest IPA Trends in Television report, for Q3 2009, shows that average daily viewing figures stand at 3.54 hours. This compares to the same levels for Q3 2008, and 3.56 hours for Q2 2009.

ABC has appointed Sally Cartwright OBE, director at large of Hello! magazine, as its next non-executive chairman, replacing John Mayhead.

Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 308.9 million units in the third quarter of 2009, a 0.1% increase from the third quarter of 2008, according to research firm Gartner.

The number of mobile users accessing social networks from their mobile devices will reach 607.5 million worldwide by 2013, representing 43% of global mobile internet users, according to a new forecast from eMarketer.