| | | | | While Canoe Has Big Hopes With Red Button, Channel 4 in UK Pulls Back on It | | Last week at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Canoe Ventures CEO David Verklin gave an impassioned plea to a room full of online video converts to not count the TV/cable industry out, and to look at TV as a platform, which by the sounds of it, they have zero idea about. | | paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance, Sun Nov 16 16:12:08 PST 2008 | | | | Jackson to appear in UK court | | Michael Jackson is to travel to London to defend allegations that he owes an Arab sheikh £4.7 million. | | Channel 4, Thu Nov 20 03:16:56 PST 2008 | | | | London midday: Insurers rattled by equity sell-off | | With Dow Jones sliding below 8,000 yesterday and the Footsie dipping below 4,000 today the mood remains one of gloom, although UK banks are providing some element of cheer ahead of RBS's shareholder meeting this afternoon. | | ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance, Thu Nov 20 04:40:00 PST 2008 | | | | National Grid profits up 4 percent | | LONDON (Reuters) - National Grid posted a 4 percent increase in half year profits, forecast full year results in line with its expectations and said the outlook for 2008/9 was positive. | | Tiscali, Thu Nov 20 01:04:34 PST 2008 | | | | Santander's UK investors unable to take up rights | | LONDON (Reuters) - Santander's 1.8 million private UK shareholders will not be able to participate in the Spanish bank's 7 billion euro (5.9 billion pounds) rights issue as there is not enough time for them to take part, it said on Thursday. | | Tiscali, Thu Nov 20 05:49:24 PST 2008 | | | | UK 'faces shortfall of 1m homes' | | The UK will face a shortfall of one million homes by 2020 due to the current downturn in the housebuilding industry, a charity has warned. | | Channel 4, Wed Nov 19 06:01:04 PST 2008 | | | | Project Kangaroo leaps into alpha testing | | The online TV joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 is planning to start testing the on-demand media player by the end of the year | | ZDNet UK, Wed Nov 19 07:47:01 PST 2008 | | | | Oracle training boosts channel | | Sara Yirrell , CRN , Thursday 20 November 2008 at 10:20:00 Held at Heathrow?s T5, Oracle?s partner event turned the spotlight on the firm?s numerous training schemes The sheer scale of Oracle and breadth of its product offering can be as baffling as Terminal 5?s (T5) baggage handling policy in its opening week, so it was appropriate... | | vnunet.com, Thu Nov 20 02:40:00 PST 2008 | | | | January UK Test For Project Kangaroo | | Project Kangaroo, a joint video-on-demand venture by major UK broadcasters, is set to go beta in January. | | Digital Trends, Tue Nov 18 06:30:25 PST 2008 | | | | Oracle training boosts channel | | The sheer scale of Oracle and breadth of its product offering can be as baffling as Terminal 5s (T5) baggage handling policy in its opening week, so it was appropriate that the vendor picked T5 as the location for its 30th Oracle Partner Network (OPN) event. | | VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News, Thu Nov 20 03:00:36 PST 2008 | | | | London afternoon: Banks and retailers defy the gloom | | Insurers and miners are the major fallers today although UK banks are providing some element of cheer ahead of RBS's shareholder meeting this afternoon. | | ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance, Thu Nov 20 06:38:00 PST 2008 | | | | Retail sales better than expected | | Official sales figures from the UK high street continued to defy expectations. Retail sales declined by 0.1% in October, during a time when consumer confidence was shaken by turmoil in financial markets, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. | | Channel 4, Thu Nov 20 02:31:34 PST 2008 | | | | Retail sales figures remain bouyant | | Official sales figures from the UK high street have continued to defy expectations according to the Office for National Statistics. | | Channel 4, Thu Nov 20 03:18:10 PST 2008 | | | | Mothercare in growth spurt | | Babycare retailer Mothercare saw group pre-tax profit more than double at the interim stage thanks to rapid growth overseas and in the direct sales channel. | | ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance, Wed Nov 19 23:12:00 PST 2008 | | | | (AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-17 14:06 UPDATE 1-BT to broadcast ITV catch-up programming | | LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - British telecoms company BT Group is to broadcast catch-up and archive programming from ITV through its BT Vision TV service, the two companies said on Monday. BT Vision, a pay-TV service, already broadcasts catch-up programming for the BBC, Channel 4, and Five. ITV said it had seen strong traffic growth across its own online sites during 2008 and that this would allow ... | | Interactive Investor, Mon Nov 17 06:35:53 PST 2008 | | | | UK scientists in transplant first | | A Spanish woman becomes the first person in the world to be given a new organ grown from her own stem cells. | | Channel 4, Wed Nov 19 04:31:55 PST 2008 | |
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