"Blue horseshoe loves Anacott Steel." Budding masters of the universe who were barely out of diapers when Charlie Sheen

Vivendi, Europe's largest entertainment group by sales, recorded a 10.3 per cent increase in underlying profits in the first

It is Washington's new hobby: keeping track of acronyms denoting US government programmes and totting up the associated

...Bloomberg Markets magazine on Wednesday, spent 26 years at Time Inc, the Time Warner magazine arm where he published titles such...industry figures including Norm Pearlstine, the former Time Inc editor in chief, and Andy Lack, the former NBC News president...

...houses.Viacom had previously used its own internal team, Viacom Brand Solutions, to sell ad space between programmes on MTV International channels, which are shown on Sky pay-TV.But it has handed responsibilities for an estimated £375m ($625m) in ad revenue...

Pity the humble technology worker. While they were working away at the next modern marvel, the world economy tripped over a

...has tried to do something similar across the firm. In addition to its traditional geographic divisions, Heidrick now has international practice groups, based on sector."He did a masterful job of introducing that and sticking with it when it was not universally...

...Y912bn ($10bn) of net debt and still losing money.However, with international mergers still mostly illegal, joint ventures are the likely...airport, less than American Airlines and British Airways would control at Heathrow if their application for anti-trust immunity were...

Mastercard is to reduce sharply fees on cross-border credit card transactions in a deal with Europe's antitrust authorities.

...symptomatic of a broader problem. Beijing operates the world's biggest and most sophisticated censorship apparatus in an attempt to control free expression on the internet. However, the authoritarian regime frequently fails to regulate the virtual marketplace effectively...