Hollywood studio MGM puts itself up for sale at $5bn
Studio behind James Bond franchise looks to cash in on rocketing prices for content amid TV streaming boom
Chinese tech firm increases stake in Universal Music to 20%
UMG valued at €30bn after consortium led by Tencent Music exercises option to double stake
Sky to make Amazon Prime Video available to subscribers in Europe
Deal will give millions of TV customers access to the streaming service’s content
Chinese authorities detain citizen who works for Bloomberg news
Haze Fan was escorted from her apartment by officials on suspicion of endangering national security
The US government wants to break up Facebook. Good – it’s long overdue
America broke up logging companies in the 1840s, Standard Oil in the 1910s, and AT&T in the 1980s. It’s time to take on big tech
Facebook faces biggest legal battle in years as US officials launch lawsuits
Regulators and 48 attorney generals take on company over antitrust concerns
Google to let YouTube users opt out of gambling and alcohol ads
Company will roll out feature in UK next year but without guarantee it will filter out 100% of adverts
Say that again? UK speech-dubbing pioneer secures new funding
Papercup’s AI tech automatically dubs content into foreign languages with voice ‘indistinguishable from human speech’
Daily Mail group executives could share £60m under new bonus scheme
Top four at DMGT also took home £24m despite profits slump amid Covid crisis
Digital watchdog’s takeover powers might tame Facebook and Google at last
The UK’s Digital Markets Unit is likely to have powers to protect startups from the giants, and about time too
Zuckerberg threatened to pull investment from the UK
Minutes of a 2018 meeting show Facebook chief complaining UK was anti-tech and saying he might look elsewhere in Europe to invest
Tech giants may face billions of pounds in fines from new UK watchdog
Competition regulator wants new Digital Markets Unit to have power to levy huge penalties if firms abuse code of conduct
Christopher Nolan leads industry fury over Warner Bros’ streaming move
Tenet director says studio’s decision to release its entire 2021 slate in the US simultaneously in cinemas and on HBO Max is ‘not how you treat film-makers’
Warner Bros to launch its 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max and in cinemas
The studio’s upcoming 17 releases, including The Matrix 4 and Dune, will premiere in the US for subscribers at no extra charge
Post-Brexit Britain will have to do better than this to curb the power of big tech
Does the government grasp the scale of the challenge of digital regulation?, asks competition lawyer Michelle Meagher