Fox’s £11.7bn bid for Sky ‘should be referred to competition authorities’

Labour’s deputy leader urges culture secretary to act after Ofcom delivers report on Rupert Murdoch’s proposed takeover

ITV narrows search for successor to chief executive Adam Crozier

Sky executive Andrew Griffith, Direct Line boss Paul Geddes and STV chief Rob Woodward believed to be leading shortlist

BAE ‘secretly sold mass surveillance technology to repressive regimes’

Documents reveal official concerns that deal with countries including Saudi Arabia could put UK security in danger, says BBC

Netflix and Amazon ‘will overtake UK cinema box office spending by 2020’

Film industry will remain ‘pretty healthy’ but DVD and Blu-ray sales will go into ‘terminal collapse’, says PwC

Sir John Hegarty: Einstein didn’t have a brainstorm session

The BBH co-founder and one of the world’s most awarded ad men on maintaining a long creative career and avoiding ‘McCartney syndrome’

The Guardian view on the 2017 election result: a call for a different Britain

Editorial: The election has confounded Theresa May and many others. It is a vote against austerity and for a less abrasive Brexit, and it marks the revival of the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn

Shaken it off! Taylor Swift ends Spotify spat

Singer ends three-year boycott of streaming service over royalties and makes entire back catalogue available to celebrate 10m sales of 1989 album

More than a fifth of WPP investors reject Sorrell’s £48m pay package

Board of world’s largest advertising group faces questions at AGM over who will take over if founder steps down

Advertisers should follow Vodafone’s lead after Facebook and Google failures

Telecoms giant is right to stop relying on social media titans to prevent its adverts appearing next to inappropriate content

Vodafone to stop its ads appearing on fake news and hate speech sites

Telecoms company to work with Google and Facebook to set up a ‘whitelist’ of safe sites on which its advertising can appear

Channel 4 confirms Alex Mahon as chief executive

Former boss of MasterChef maker Shine becomes the first woman to run a UK broadcaster larger than Channel 5

Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters

More worrying than the internet’s role in the rise of far-right populism is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us: AI and and ‘crypto-anarchists’ are radically restructuring life – and politics – as we know it

Hollywood and TV put the squeeze on UK’s low-budget film-makers

Small productions struggle to hit the big screen due to fashion for mega-budget TV dramas and risk-averse US studios focusing on superhero blockbusters