A report that Rupert Murdoch held talks about selling film and television assets to Walt Disney added another layer of uncertainty to his £11.7bn (€13.3bn) bid to buy all of broadcaster Sky.

A report that Rupert Murdoch held talks about selling film and television assets to Walt Disney added another layer of uncertainty to his £11.7bn (€13.3bn) bid to buy all of broadcaster Sky.

Quarterly results from Google owner Alphabet and Facebook provided fresh evidence this week that the digital advertising market is effectively a duopoly, a dynamic that has deep implications for two of Silicon Valley’s titans.