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The Central Office of Information (COI) has appointed Simon Marquis as non-executive board director.

BSkyB has completed the acquisition of Virgin Media Television (VMtv), renaming it the Living TV Group.

Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in online social gaming company Zynga, according to a report from TechCrunch.

The latest IPA Bellwether Report, for Q2 2010, shows that budgets for nearly all main categories were revised down in the second quarter, with online and direct marketing the exceptions.

Will Lewis, former Daily Telegraph editor-in-chief, has joined News International as group general manager.

Centaur Media, publisher of New Media Age, has revealed that revenues in the six months to the end of June were up 10% year on year.

ITV’s director of television, Peter Fincham, is to take responsibility for the broadcaster’s marketing and has also been tasked with overseeing its research.

Clear Channel UK has appointed Matthew Dearden as its new chief executive officer.

BT is to charge customers just £16.99 a month for Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2, despite BSkyB announcing last night that it is increasing the retail price for the channels.

Raymond Snoddy reports back from this week’s Future of Broadcasting conference, where Ed Richards showed that Ofcom is getting on with business, despite David Cameron’s disdain for quangos.