Media
Top-level exodus from TV18 after RIL takeover
30 May 2014
With RIL's acquisition of TV 18, top editors and popular anchors of CNN-IBN, Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose, both Narendra Modi critics, are among the many senior editors across its channels, who are expected to resign from the channel
Reliance Industries to acquire Network18 for Rs4,000 crore
29 May 2014
Network18 owns a suite of premier digital internet properties, e-commerce businesses and differentiated broadcast content
AT&T in advanced talks to buy DirecTV in over $50-bn deal
13 May 2014
The two companies are in talks on a transaction, which would involve a mix of cash and AT&T stock totaling to $92 to $94 a share
BSkyB in talks to merge 21st Century Fox Pay-TV assets in Germany and Italy
12 May 2014
BSkyB believes at the right value, the combination would have the potential to create a world-class multinational pay TV group
News Corp acquires world's largest romance-books publisher Harlequin
03 May 2014
According to News Corporation, Harlequin’s international presence (its books are published in over 30 different languages) made the company especially attractive
Computer news-writers set to replace journalists
02 May 2014
The advantage with the robot journalist is that the machine works faster as it only takes seconds for the computer to drop the data into a template and release it to the newspaper’s readers
