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Carphone Warehouse is set to buy the UK division of Tiscali for £236 million in a bid to create the UK’s largest residential broadband provider.The takeover, which is expected to be completed next month, will see Tiscali UK merge with TalkTalk – Carphone Warehouse’s ISP that serves around 4.25 million homes in the UK.Charles Dunstone,… Continue reading Carphone Warehouse is set to buy Tiscali UK

Afternoon freesheet thelondonpaper has relaunched its website with a fresh look designed to be more engaging to users.The new-look site, designed by agency Nomensa, features more advertising opportunities and allows readers to include their interactions with the paper on their Facebook page.Serena Kutchinsky, former managing editor of Time Out has been hired as editor of… Continue reading thelondonpaper revamps website

Rupert Murdoch said he plans to charge users to read The Times‘ and The Sun‘s online content following the success of the Wall Street Journal‘s pay model.Murdoch said he would test the pay model on his stronger titles, in a similar way he charges people for the WSJ’s online business news, and if it proves… Continue reading Murdoch set to charge for online content

The Association of Online Publishers has announced the shortlist for its 2009 Digital Publishing Awards.Winners for each of the 17 categories, which include innovation, mobile and commercial partnership, will be announced at an awards dinner on June 2 in London.Bauer Media’s digital sales team, Future Publishing’s digital ad team and IPC Media’s Ignite are among… Continue reading AOP announces Digital Publishing Awards shortlist

Virgin Media is planning a major push to encourage the half of its customers who have yet to try its VoD services to do so.The cable TV broadcaster also hopes to capitalise on its pay-TV rival Sky’s success with high definition services by launching more HD channels over the summer and increasing the amount of… Continue reading Virgin Media is set for video-on-demand push

Virgin Media added 7,100 new subscribers in the first quarter of 2009 but saw revenues fall below £936 million due to poor performance in its business communications division.The cable company persuaded 47,300 households to take up its broadband service, down from the 57,100 in the run-up to Christmas and 88,400 during the same period last… Continue reading Virgin Media gains 7,100 customers in Q1

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Africa and the Middle East will lead the world in terms of the percentage of mobile broadband subscriptions through 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network. Although Africa and the Middle East generated 10% of global mobile revenue in 2008, the region contributed… Continue reading Africa and Middle East predicted to lead mobile broadband subscriber growth by 2012

Disney has acquired almost a 30% stake in US online TV platform Hulu, the joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp.The deal will see Disney broadcast full-length episodes of its ABC TV programmes, such as Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives on Hulu.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but all… Continue reading Disney acquires stake in Hulu