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O2-Virgin Media boss faces biggest battle of his career Lutz Schuler’s task to combine the two companies and deliver billions in cost savings will mean job cuts and huge technical challenges 19 April 2021 • 9:00am Virgin Media boss Lutz Schuler is getting used to winning. Downloads on his fibre broadband network hit a record high on March 31 as gamers feasted on the latest update to Call of Duty: Warzone, the first-person shooter played by 80m people. Such demand came just days before he su...

An intense scramble for COVID-19 vaccines in Arizona that just weeks ago caused frustration, lineups and website problems appears over. While there are still some areas of Arizona with a steady demand for vaccines, appointments generally are easier to find and, in some cases, not getting filled. Part of whats happening is a shift, where doctors offices, pharmacies and neighborhood clinics are expected to eventually become the go-to places for the COVID-19 vaccine, rather than large-scale vacc...

Winnipeg Free Press Conquests financial planning software adopted by IG Wealth with Canada Life on deck RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Mark Evans, head of Winnipeg financial planning software company Conquest Planning Inc. Conquest’s team has grown from 25 to 50 over the past year. A month before the pandemic was official, Conquest Planning Inc. announced that it had raised $3 million from venture capital funds, including from the Power Corp.-backed Portag3 Ventures. A month before the...

The island nation had a mostly normal National Championship. Tom Tulett in the Open Final. Photo by Adam Mortimer Ultimate Australia held their open and women’s national championships this past weekend in the capital city of Canberra. While there is a slight asterisk to the tournament with teams from Queensland and Western Australia not able to attend because of COVID-19 restrictions, the majority of clubs from around the country made their way to have what appeared to be a pretty normal nat...

    The Board of Tavistock announces that it has received further letters from Neil Thomas, Kathryn McKimmie,  John McKimmie and the estate of Alan Raven (deceased) stating their intention to reject the possible all share offer by TEAM plc ("TEAM") for the issued and to be issued share capital of Tavistock (the "Possible Offer").     These letters of intent (which are non-binding) represent, in aggregate, 1.47% of the Companys issued share capital and when taken with the ...

Last modified on Wed 14 Apr 2021 04.50 EDT The UK’s competition watchdog has provisionally cleared the £31bn merger of Virgin Media and O2, paving the way for the creation of a “national champion” to challenge BT. Last May, Liberty Global, which owns the UK’s largest cable company, Virgin, and Telefónica, which owns O2, announced a deal to merge their UK operations in a 50-50 joint venture. The deal will create a new telecoms heavyweight and a stronger competitor to BT. Virgin Media h...

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Sam Fortescue takes a first look at the Makara 85, the first of a new range of semi-custom yachts from designer Malcolm McKeon and builders McConaghy

This week **Can cinemas bring Brits back to the big screen? **Is Clubhouse really worth $4bn? Media Moment of the Week: Every dog has its day Doing a live piece to camera comes with risks, as any broadcast journalist will tell you. But one thing they don’t prepare you for on journalism courses is an encounter with an over-enthusiastic golden retriever who decides your microphone makes quite a good toy. A dog in Russia grabbed the reporters microphone and ran away during a live broadcast pic.t...

Also in todays EMEA regional roundup: Lutz Schüler named as boss of post-merger Virgin Media/O2 entity; Ericsson does 5G in Malta; UK sets up new regulatory unit to tame tech titans. T-Mobile Netherlands is hoping to reach 1 million Dutch households with fiber within five years through a partnership with Open Dutch Fibre, which is itself a joint venture between KKR Infrastructure and Deutsche Telecom Capital Partners. T-Mobile is pumping at least €700 million (US$832 million) into the project...