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Crunch year for ITV
Much will depend on Archie Norman’s ability as new chairman to change attitudes at the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster
Levin apologises for $164bn AOL deal
Jerry Levin, who sold Time Warner for AOL shares inflated by the dotcom boom, has marked the 10th anniversary of the disastrous $164bn deal with a call for today’s corporate titans to accept responsibility for the recent financial crisis
Archives body backs Friends Reunited sale
The takeover of Friends Reunited, currently facing regulatory scrutiny, has found support from an unlikely quarter – the National Archives
Advertisers cool on product placement
Plans to allow such marketing within UK television programmes have sparked opposition not only from doctors and religious leaders but even from the advertising industry
Orion’s creditors agree sale of Tele Columbus
Shareholders of the indebted German cable company will sell their shares in the operating company to a special purpose vehicle funded by its lenders in exchange for €2.5m
Fox reaches cable deal with Time Warner
American football games remained on the air for millions of Time Warner Cable customers after News Corp’s Fox held back from its threat to pull programmes from the network over a carriage-fee dispute
UK set for wi-fi explosion
The number of internet hotspots could treble over the next few years, driven by growing demand from iPhone users and fresh interest in community wi-fi projects
Analysis: Wikipedia: Fact and friction
Online information: Wikipedia, the user-generated encyclopaedia that is now the fifth most visited website, is struggling to reconcile its egalitarian ideals with calls to reinforce reliability
Chinese journalist launches magazine
Hu Shuli, the country’s best-known financial journalist, has launched Century Weekly after quitting her post at Caijing magazine in a dispute over funding and editorial freedom
Google’s YouTube gamble is vindicated
In spite of a rocky start, the web’s most popular video site is finally on course to start to return some of Google’s investment
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