04 Feb 2009
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - The Competition Commission has put an end to Project Kangaroo, the joint venture between...Normal 0 Is the CC right to axe Kangaroo? **Vote** and have your say The commission's final report concluded that Kangaroo "has to be stopped" because even the constraints it had considered, such as controlling the way Kangaroo shareholders offer content to other providers, would not have overcome the risk ...
10 Nov 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
venture Project Kangaroo to join Microsoft as UK consumer and online managing director...., Vice President, Consumer and Online, Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa. Project Kangaroo has ...
role as the BBC's director of future media and technology to take the chief executive role at Kangaroo in April. Project Kangaroo is now looking for a replacement and has appointed its lead regulatory adviser ...
04 Dec 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
that proposed video-on-demand service Kangaroo will not pose a threat to competition in the online advertising...advertising market. This judgement is questioned today by Screen Digest, which claims that Kangaroo ...
that Kangaroo will not have much market power in the supply of paid-for online TV because it does not control a ...
to its Xbox 360. Normal 0 "Were the Kangaroo partners to withhold content from any ...
14 Apr 2008
| by Staff
Kangaroo...., is to take over at Kangaroo from interim chief executive Leslie MacKenzie, the BBC has now confirmed ...
month. The commercial broadcasters behind Kangaroo will be looking to Highfield to replicate ...
. Michael Grade, ITV executive chairman, said: Kangaroo will be an important shop window for UK broadcaster ...
06 Apr 2009
| by Jacquie Bowser
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The Project Kangaroo partners are believed to have invested ...
to be interested in buying up the Project Kangaroo assets. ...
03 Dec 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - The Competition Commission is looking at placing restrictions on Kangaroo, the video...broadcasters who have formed Kangaroo - the BBC's commercial arm, ITV and Channel 4. However, it said it did ...
on the fact that the broadcasting trio behind Kangaroo control most domestically produced video ...
to ensure that Kangaroo does not license content to other suppliers on unfavourable terms, or "in ...
29 Oct 2009
| by Jennifer Whitehead and Daniel Farey-Jones
to disconnect people accused of illegal filesharing as a "kangaroo court" and is running an ad to encourage
03 Jul 2008
| by Nikki Sandison
LONDON - Lesley Mackenzie, the former interim CEO at Kangaroo, has been appointed as CEO of Nettv.... Prior to her time at Kangaroo, the planned on-demand service from BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV ...
in April to take over from Mackenzie as chief executive of Kangaroo. Earlier this week, the Office of Fair Trading referred Kangaroo to the Competition Commission, delaying its launch until 2009. ...
15 Aug 2005
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
boots made out of the skin of kangaroos....the Adidas Predator Pulse, made from leather from kangaroos.
Although the shoes are made from the skins of kangaroos that are culled as part of Australian government measures to keep the population in check, Viva! says that there is no evidence that kangaroos are a pest.
It says that red kangaroo numbers have ...
04 Nov 2009
| by Susan Billinge
and Project Kangaroo successor, SeeSaw....intended for the now defunct Project Kangaroo , which was blocked by the Competition Commission earlier ...