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New customers help boost Virgin Media’s revenues

29.10.09
The boss of Virgin Media today said “more products, more customers and more people buying more expensive products” pushed third-quarter revenue up 1.3% to £953 million ... more

Chris Tarrant on letting the kids take control

21.10.09
Chris Tarrant fills us in on his latest TV show and reveals whether he'll be leaving Who Wants to be a Millionaire.... more

Don’t bet on Darling in pay battle with bankers

22.09.09
SO, Alistair Darling wants bankers not to pay themselves big bonuses this side of the election, does he? ... more

Ofcom clears BT to offer discount package deals

15.09.09
The last major rules controlling how much BT can charge for domestic phone calls have been scrapped - 25 years after the company was privatised... more

Stars set for V Festival as thousands set up camp

21.08.09
Thousands of festival-goers are already setting up camp in readiness for two days of live music and partying at V Festival... more

Daniel Merriweather: 'I like to take cocaine in private'

21.08.09
Mark Ronson's protégé Daniel Merriweather has admitted to taking cocaine — but claims that he prefers to do it in private, away from prying eyes... more

Virgin loses customers but gains spenders

06.08.09
Virgin Media lost 26,200 television, broadband and landline telephone customers between April and June ... more

Virgin Media is mulling a secondary London listing

03.08.09
Virgin Media may list its shares on the London Stock Exchange, in a belated recognition that it operates entirely in the UK ... more

Music fans to get unlimited legal downloads

15.06.09
Subscription service offering unlimited legal downloads to be launched after ground-breaking deal between leading internet service provider and the world's biggest music label... more

BSkyB tops bids for rival Virgin channels

29.05.09
British Sky Broadcasting has emerged as the highest bidder for a clutch of seven digital TV channels owned by Virgin Media including Virgin One, Bravo, Living and Challenge... more

BSkyB tops bids for rival Virgin channels

29.05.09
British Sky Broadcasting has emerged as the highest bidder for a clutch of seven digital TV channels owned by Virgin Media including Virgin One, Bravo, Living and Challenge ... more

Subscribers flock to sign up with Virgin Media

05.05.09
Virgin Media is still recruiting new subscribers, getting them to sign up for more than one service and managing to cut down the number of people who switch to rivals ... more

Virgin Media TV channels 'for sale'

05.03.09
Virgin Media is reported to have put its television channels, which include Dave, Bravo and Living, up for sale at around £500 million... more

Shop flop hits Virgin Media for £55 million

25.02.09
Media: Virgin Media wrote down the value of its TV shopping channels bid tv, price-drop tv and speed auction tv by £55 million after they had a poor run-up to Christmas.... more

More Lloyds misery after cuts in ratings

17.02.09
Lloyds Banking Group today continued to be rocked by last week's warning that losses may total £11 billion at its recently acquired HBOS subsidiary. ... more

Virgin speeds up Britain's broadband to a record 50Mb

15.12.08
A major battle for the future of Britain’s internet access has begun... more

City bears the brunt in bloody week of job cuts

14.11.08
London bankers are facing a new wave of redundancies as Britain headed for 20,000 job losses in five days... more

Jobless total hits 1.82m as things get tougher for Britain

12.11.08
Unemployment hit an 11-year high of 1.82 million amid fears that the jobless total could near three million by 2010... more

UK Plc axes 5000 jobs as credit crisis deepens

11.11.08
Economy: British firms slashed almost 5000 jobs in one of the bloodiest culls since the start of the economic crisis... more

Sky told to sell football to rivals

30.09.08
Sky should sell Premier League football and first-run Hollywood movies rights on to its rivals, the broadcast regulator Ofcom has said... more

Mixed messages from Hutton

11.09.08
NOT for the first time the Government is at sixes and sevens on something. The latest subject for the shaky hand on the tiller is pay rewards... more

Market report: Caz says dig into miners in the wake of sell-off

11.09.08
A drop in the price of raw materials has meant mining companies have suffered their biggest monthly fall in 11 years during September and the third- biggest monthly fall on record... more

Ex-ITV boss Charles Allen joins Virgin Media

10.09.08
Charles Allen, former chief executive of ITV, has joined the board of Virgin Media, the cable company which unsuccessfully attempted to take over the broadcaster two years ago... more

Market report: Consumer firms hit by spending cutbacks

27.08.08
Ill-effects of the credit squeeze are starting be felt by consumer-related companies as investors fret about the shrinking amounts of cash in our pockets and purses.... more

Virgin media is losing the low payers

07.08.08
In a so-called 'sniff of consumer downturn', Virgin Media has lost 19,500 customers in the past three months... more

ITV to axe jobs after warning on ad revenues

06.08.08
The broadcaster's September advertising revenues will be “way down”, chairman Michael Grade warned ... more

Cost of ITV 'blocking stake' blows a hole in BSkyB profits

31.07.08
Satellite company loses £616 million after attempting to block Virgin Media's merger with ITV... more

Court victory for computer games firm in crackdown on illegal downloads

01.07.08
Thousands of computer users who breach copyright by sharing games and films are facing legal action from producers determined to protect their interests... more

Millions of customers left fuming over poor quality digital TV services

27.05.08
The digital television revolution has left millions of viewers unhappy with the service they receive, it is revealed today. ... more

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