28 Jan 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft has reported record revenues of $19.9bn (£12.5bn) for its second financial quarter....
Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division grew by 55% to $3.6bn. The Kinect launched in November ...
Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft, said: "We are enthusiastic about the consumer response ...
sensors sold in just 60 days far exceeded our expectations."
Microsoft Business division revenue ...
02 Feb 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Google has accused Microsoft of borrowing from its search results to improve the performance...result, to prove if Microsoft was taking results from Google.
Twenty Google engineers were given laptops running Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer 8 with the Bing Toolbar, and opted ...
, which can both send data to Microsoft, or by some other means.
Harry Shum, Bing's corporate vice ...
21 Jun 2011
| by Ben Bold
Bewsher and seven other executives ahead of its £8.5bn (£5.2bn) takeover by Microsoft....in value when the Microsoft deal closed.
In addition to Bewsher ( profiled by Marketing in April , just ...
, Skype has made some management changes."
Microsoft confirmed in May that it would buy Skype, with a price tag being four times more than analysts had expected . At the time Microsoft chief executive Steve ...
25 Jul 2007
| by Vox pop
In an ironic twist, following its criticism of the quality of commercial channels, the BBC found...In response to the phone scandal the BBC shot back and said it would establish an editorial ...
programmes: Comic Relief on BBC One; Tmi on BBC Two and CBBC; Sport Relief on BBC One; Children in Need on BBC One Scotland; The Liz Kershaw Show on BBC 6 Music; and White Label on World Service. The BBC ...
25 Jul 2007
| by Vox pop
BBC director general Mark Thompson recently criticised the corporation's commercial rivals over...is associated with public service intervention of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. There is only one ...
the BBC's licence fee and said that the corporation was still providing value for money. He cited the fact that employee numbers were significantly smaller than they were three years ago, but that the BBC now produced ...
22 Jul 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Microsoft's online services division, which includes Bing, MSN and advertising sales, has recorded...'s operating loss grew 9%, from $2.34bn last year, which Microsoft blamed on the cost of revenue increasing ...
.
Online advertising revenue grew by $358m, or 19%, to $2.3bn.
Microsoft said: "Search revenue grew ...
12 Jul 2011
| by Maisie McCabe
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, increased its total returns to the BBC by 8...business BBC Worldwide controversially bought in 2007, and a payment of 42.1m to buy the final 25% of Lonely Planet in February this year.
Headline sales at BBC Worldwide were a record 1.16bn up 7 ...
to 884m, which BBC Worldwide attributed to strong performances in the channels, digital entertainment ...
11 Aug 2010
| by Calvin Lau
some of commercial radio's growth has been at the expense of the BBC, according to Q2 2010 Rajar...Commercial radio s audience grew twice as fast as the BBC s in the passed three months and overall, the medium has been growing consistentely since 2009.
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04 Aug 2010
| by Maisie McCabe
The BBC's new five-part drama 'The Deep' was the most-watched show during peaktime last night...Between 9pm and 10pm, an average of 5.3 million people watched The Deep , which stars Minnie Driver and James Nesbitt, across BBC One and BBC HD, a 23.2% share of the available audience. The Bill ...
-watching audience. A further 193,400 watched the show on Channel 4+1. On BBC Two, the comedy from the team behind ...
16 Feb 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Terrestrial commercial channels outperformed the BBC's offerings in the key 9pm-10pm slot last...' at 9pm-10pm, BBC One's audience was much smaller than usual.
The fourth of eight episodes of sci-fi drama 'Outcasts' was watched by 2.63 million viewers, a 10% share, while BBC Two documentary 'The Chinese Are Coming' was seen by 1.5 million, including its BBC HD audience. ...