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A sharp fall in the market value of Future Network has led the company to issue a reassuring statement this morning. Future says that there has been no deterioration in its financial condition, the performance of its businesses or in the company’s expectation of its performance since the previous trading statement was posted on 8… Continue reading Future Reassures Investors Following Dramatic Shares Slump

In a survey of net users in 16 countries, Ipsos-Reid found that 46% of those questioned cited online credit card fraud as a “major concern” when shopping online and 26% said it was a “moderate concern”. Ipsos say that such concerns are limiting the potential for e-commerce growth as 55% of those who have not,… Continue reading Security Concerns Hamper eCommerce Success, Says Ipsos-Reid

Week on week analysis revealed another poor week for media companies with only six seeing an increase in share price.Future Network suffered the most significant loss with shares diving 47.13% to finish at 23p, a loss of 20˝p on the previous week. Taylor Nelson Sofres followed close behind, dropping 12.47% to close at £1.79, a… Continue reading Sharewatch

UK cable market leaders NTL and Telewest have joined forces in a national marketing campaign designed to boost British broadband uptake. Both companies offer customers broadband cable modem internet services at £24.99 per month which compares favourably with BT’s £39.99 per month ADSL access. Currently broadband cable access is available to around 9 million homes… Continue reading NTL And Telewest Join Together To “Build Broadband Britain”

Guardian Media Group chairman, Paul Myners has been appointed as the first non-executive director on the BT Wireless board. He has been appointed alongside Andrew Sukawaty, former chief executive of NTL, who becomes deputy chairman.Chairman David Varney whose board preparing for a future demerger, described the pair’s experience as “invaluable”.Subscribers can access ten years of… Continue reading GMG Chair On BT Wireless Board

A new survey commissioned by Oftel shows that UK home internet use continues to rise as figures show that four million homes connected in the last 12 months. The survey, conducted in May 2001, reveals that 10 million homes now have internet connections, up from 6 million in May 2000 and 8.5 million in February… Continue reading UK Internet Use Continues To Rise, Says Oftel

UK cable market leaders NTL and Telewest have joined forces in a national marketing campaign designed to boost British broadband uptake. Both companies offer customers broadband cable modem internet services at £24.99 per month which compares favourably with BT’s £39.99 per month ADSL access.Currently broadband cable access is available to around 9 million homes in… Continue reading NTL Teams With Telewest

There were more than seven million internet users in Spain during April and May – over 20% of the population – according to data from the Spanish Association for Media Research (AIMC), as reported on Europemedia. This is almost double the number of people online at the same point last, according to the report. Almost… Continue reading Seven Million Spanish Online, Says Report

Capital Interactive (CI), the online music arm of Capital Radio, today announced a deal to become the first web-radio provider for MSN.co.uk, supplying MSN’s 11m monthly users with three narrowcast web-radio stations.ATK13, Chyra and Glisn will be available on the MSN site around the clock from 23 July. ATK13 will be found on the MSN… Continue reading Capital In Web Deal With MSN

The Newspaper Association Of America reports that newspaper advertising expenditure for Q1 2001 will come in at around $10.4 billion, a decline of 4.3% over 2000, according to preliminary estimates. “Obviously, it would be hard to match the incredible gains of last year, particularly in national, which registered an 18.7 percent gain in the first… Continue reading US Newspaper Adspend Declines For The First Time Since 1992