Two leading BSkyB shareholders give qualified support for James Murdoch as chairman following calls from a top US investor that he should quit over the phone-hacking saga... more
BSkyB's board comes under pressure to pay a one-off dividend of up to £2 billion to compensate investors for the failed News Corp takeover while chairman James Murdoch faces questions about whether he should quit... more
Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over BSkyB has been referred to the Competition Commission after the media mogul withdrew undertakings to push through the deal... more
BSkyB shares plunge for a second day as investors are convinced Rupert Murdoch's takeover will be delayed because of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal... more
In the good old days, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street merely had to give a nudge and the banks scurried to do her bidding. Now it takes the rather more formal action of a speech to the ifs School of Finance in Leeds by the Bank of England's chief cashier Chris Salmon to get things moving... more
Endemol's UK subsidiary has missed a June 30 deadline to file its annual accounts to Companies House, raising fresh questions about the heavily indebted Dutch TV production behemoth that makes Big Brother... more
Here is an unusual approach to playing the top end of the London property market from agent Knight Frank, which is offering tips on how to spot the next Mayfair, Belgravia or Knightsbridge... more
The talk in broadcasting circles is that the squeeze on the high street is hitting the pay-TV giants. Churn - the rate at which subscribers quit - is rumoured to have risen in the last few months... more
"It's nice to see a different colour out there," was the verdict from one trader, referring to the fact that most screens were showing blue as share prices rose on hopes that the worst can be averted in Greece... more
With no decision on News Corp's BSkyB takeover expected from Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt until next week or later, speculation continues about what happens if regulators say the deal-breaker - hiving off Sky News as a separate company on the stock market - won't work... more
Rupert Murdoch's plan to hive off Sky News as a separate stock market-quoted company so he can get his takeover of BSkyB past the regulators is stuck in limbo as lawyers haggle over the details... more
BSkyB shares hit a fresh nine-year high of 843p as traders expect News Corp to get the green light for its takeover next week and begin final negotiations on price with shareholders... more
Next Monday is the deadline for responses to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, following his decision to allow Rupert Murdoch's controversial takeover of BSkyB - and the hiving off of Sky News as a separate company to protect its independence... more
There is a whiff of something not quite right about today's BSkyB deal, where the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has allowed News Corp, controlled by Rupert Murdoch, to bid for that part of the broadcaster it does not already own... more
BSkyB shares jump to a nine-year high of 817.5p as top shareholder Crispin Odey demands at least 950p for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to buy the pay-TV giant... more
As negotiations continue between News Corporation and the Office of Fair Trading over the former's bid to acquire the whole of BSkyB, there appear to be two assumptions among commentators... more
Is former Bank of England hawk Tim Besley trying to rewrite history? Besley was the man who voted for interest rates to rise in July and August 2008 - when the economy was already in recession and about to fall off a cliff with the collapse of Lehman Brothers... more
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has agreed to buy his daughter Elisabeth's London TV production company, Shine, maker of hit shows such as Masterchef and Ashes to Ashes... more
Rupert Murdoch is 'deeply depressed' about the phone-hacking and Sky Sports sexism scandals and is worried they will scupper his £8 billion BSkyB takeover... more
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London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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