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With Yahoo!'s announced acquisition of social media platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Tumblr founder David Karp has yielded another significant windfall for the 26-year-old tech entrepreneur .

Radio specialists from Mindshare, RadioWorks and UM London were encouraged by the growth of digital listening and intrigued by the changes in the London market in yesterday's Rajar figures.

Rubicon Project , which operates REVV, the advertising industry's largest, fastest and easiest-to-use real-time trading platform for buying and selling digital ads, announces significant results and accomplishments that clearly demonstrate the company's momentum as it powers the automated advertising revolution to the next level globally.

Liberty Global, Inc. is pleased to announce that it will appoint Robert Dunn, currently Managing Director of UPC Netherlands, to the position of Chief Financial Officer of Virgin Media upon the closing of that acquisition.

UK cableco Virgin Media is set to delist from the London Stock Exchange , the company confirmed.

ROBBIE Williams came up with an inspired way of ensuring his music gets more airplay by wooing a room packed full of the nation's top radio stars.

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by analysts at TheStreet in a research report issued to clients and investors on Monday, AnalystRatings.Net reports.

Marshall Wace is a London-based hedge fund with a U.S. equity portfolio worth over $1.5 billion, according to its latest 13F filing with the SEC.

This week we saw an increase in insider sells coming from the entertainment industry.

Highest-earning hedge fund managers are in the spotlight this week as many of the investor Gurus have found a place on the new "Rich List" released by Institutional Investor's Alpha.

's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by research analysts at TheStreet in a report released on Friday, Stock Ratings Network reports.

The U.K. incumbent, which on Thursday announced it will bundle BT Sport with its broadband service at no extra charge, said it has also had discussions with TalkTalk.

The Turnpike Art Group has decorated the green streetside boxes dotted around their neighbourhood in north London with a variety of outsized floral designs that make a welcome change from tagging and other non-artistic forms of graffiti.

HOTEL industry start-up Sleeperz will use the site of the former Travelodge in Edinburgh's Shandwick Place to launch a brand of budget hotel.

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Liberty Global, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has selected Tom Mockridge to become CEO of Virgin Media Inc.

South London brothers triumph in Branson's Virgin Media Pioneers 'Pitch to Rich' competition and win prize package worth 5,000 Two budding entrepreneurs have been named the winners of the Virgin Media Pioneers Pitch to Rich competition - after pitching their business idea to Sir Richard Branson and a panel of successful business leaders securing a ... (more)

On 30 April 1993 Russ Williams stood outside the One Golden Square building in London's West End alongside Richard Branson at the launch of Virgin Radio, little realising that 20 years later he would still be broadcasting from the same building an unmatched tenure in commercial radio.

GETTING A HEADSTART Of the biggest deals of the year so far - the buyout of Dell, Warren Buffett's acquisition of Heinz, American Airlines-US Airways, Liberty Global-Virgin Media - none made it to the finish line without the news media finding out about it first.

Just a few weeks ahead of an expected triumphant return to the UK, Bruce Springsteen says he still can't believe health and safety officials pulled the plug on him and Sir Paul McCartney at Hyde Park last year.