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| Symbol | Name | Time | Trade | Change | % Chg | Volume | P/E Ratio | EPS | Mkt Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSY.L | BSkyB | 16:35 GMT | 699.00 | -0.50 | -0.07% | 2601776 | 1337.48 | 0.523 | 11.946B |
Latest BSkyB news
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Whitespace internet tests declared successful by tech consortium
Others involved in the consortium includes: Adaptrum, Alcatel-Lucent, Arqiva, BBC, BSkyB, BT, Cambridge Consultants, CRFS, CSR plc., Digital TV Group (DTG), Microsoft, Neul, Nokia, Samsung, Spectrum Bridge, The Technology Partnership (TTP) and Virgin Media. -
Businesses use Advertising Standards to grass each other up
Behemoth BSkyBhas taken aim at Virgin before. Last year it took offence to a misleading national newspaper and magazine insert. -
3D broadcasting drought continues
Despite BSkyB launching 3D channels along with hefty marketing campaigns - which saw 3D football matches broadcast in pubs and gushing reports about the technology featuring in associated newspapers - there's still little in the way of actual 3D broadcast content. -
Talk Talk tops Ofcom's crap list
Next up on the worst list was BSkyB. BT also proved that sometimes it wasn't good to talk, coming in at third. The least complained about provider over the same period was Virgin Media with 0.21 complaints per 1000 customers. -
Murdoch claims to own the Cloud
Cloudnet changed its company name to Birchills Telecom following legal action from BSkyB's "The Cloud" Wi-Fi hotspot provider. -
Broadband operators won't tell people lies any more
BSkyB, BT, O2, TalkTalk, Three, Virgin Media and Vodafone will all supply information to the Broadband Stakeholder Group, which is spearheading the initiative, so that traffic management techniques can easily be read and compared by users of both fixed line and mobile broadband. -
Murdoch roped into phone tapping scandal
Cameron stripped Liberal Democrat business secretary, Vince Cable, of responsibility for the crucial decision on whether News Corp should be allowed to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB -
Murdoch wants to buy Wi-Fi provider The Cloud
RumourBSkyB is to buy Wi-Fi provider The Cloud, according to unnamed sources cited by Murdoch rag The Sunday Times. -
Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB buy gets green light from EC
AcquisitionNews Corp, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch, has won approval by the European Commission to take over British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) further expanding Murdoch's unholy media empire. -
Church of England attacks News Corp over BSkyB bid
"A News Corporation in full control of BSkyB would combine one of the three significant suppliers of TV news (BBC, ITN and BSkyB), one of the two suppliers of radio news (BBC, BSkyB) and the group with the biggest market share of national press in the UK. -
ASA tells off Virgin Media after Sky grasses it up
Virgin Media has been given a rap on the knuckles after the ASA partly upheld a claim from BSkyB. -
Skype and Facebook integration could be on the cards
Take that, Google - Cisco darling and enemy of Murdoch's BSkypeB, er, BSkyB Skype could be talking to Zuckerberg's gang about VoIP integration with Facebook. -
BT confirms it sent customer info to ACS:Law - unencrypted
Meanwhile, ACS: Law has been cut off by its ISP Sky Broadband. And BSkyB said it would no longer co-operate with the solicitors’ firm after 4,000 Sky customers had their details leaked. -
Zuckerberg's minions attack pre-launch teaching community
We recently reported on BSkyB having a pop at Skype because it felt it owned the "Sky" in Skype. -
Murdoch and Sky go on warpath with Skype
The issue was highlighted in an IPO filing by Skype, which yesterday announced its plans to float on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York. BSkyB's legal challenge to Skype using its name within the EU was revealed in the 250-page document announcing the intended flotation. -
Murdoch set to directly challenge BBC
News Corp made a bid to acquire the whole of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, amounting to a sum not far off £12 billion. -
HP pays BSkyB £318 million over failed project
The dispute was over Electronic Data Systems (EDS)'s failed implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) services. HP acquired EDS in 2008, but also acquired its bad debt and the discontent it had left with BSkyB. -
Project Canvas pushed through by OFT
BSkyB and Virgin kicked off about the venture claiming that it would ruin the commercial market, however it seems Project Canvas got around the OFT by labelling it as just a portal.
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