Posted by Simon Perry on 18 November 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Sky, UK, Financials
We’ve just had notice that the UK side of Sky’s operation, British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, are raising around $600 million through a private Bond issue.
They’ll be paying 9.5% interest, it will mature in 2018 and they hope it to close on or about 24 November 2008.
The full statement is below.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 28 July 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Google, Financials
Marissa Mayer, the acceptable face to Google’s tech dork-ery, appears to have slipped up somewhat.
She let it out that Google News — one of the only areas of Google that doesn’t have advertising on — generates them around $100 million a year in referrals to main Google, from the 47 million people a month looking […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 July 2008 | Tagged as: Spain, UK, Financials, Vodafone
Vodafone Board feels that their shares are undervalued at present, so to build the share price up again, they’ve just sanctioned the self-purchase of up to £1 Billion of their own shares.
The publication of this decision comes the day after a Vodafone’s shared dropped almost 14% over the day, the largest single-day drop in its […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 April 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Google, Financials
Google’s Q1 2008 results have been published with their income up 42% compared with Q1 2007.
The result include the purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick, although Google state that this was “immaterial to income.”
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Posted by Simon Perry on 7 February 2008 | Tagged as: Sky, UK, Financials
The interim results for UK satellite broadcaster Sky have been announced, with a £36 million pre-tax loss showing for the six-month
period ending 31 December - its first loss for six years.
Balanced against the financial loss was otherwise positive news, like their ARPU raising to a record £421 per subscriber, an increase in subscribers and a […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 3 October 2007 | Tagged as: Business, USA, Financials
No smiles at Palm as the company posts a net loss of $840,000.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 11 July 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Content, Financials
New service lets mobile punters check their bank balances on the move.
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 July 2007 | Tagged as: Gadgets, Apple, USA, Financials, Mobile
Apple appear to have done it again - making a device with a very health margin.
Posted by Simon Perry on 25 June 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Japan, Sony, Financials, Nintendo
What is going on with Sony? Now tiddler Nintendo has had a higher stockmarket valuation than Sony!
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 March 2007 | Tagged as: Financials, Advertising, Business, Physical Formats, Video on Demand (VoD), Cable TV, Cross platform, Analysis, Satellite-delivered, IPTV
There’s some mighty big numbers knocking around iSupply’s estimates of what the video content world will be worth.
