Time Warner and Snapchat have announced a new partnership that will bring original Time Warner shows to the social media network.

Seeking out new revenues, big phone firms at the Mobile World Congress are trying to loosen Google, Amazon and Facebook’s grip, write Eric Auchard and Sophie Sassard.

Verizon Communications has said it would buy Yahoo’s core business for $4.48bn (€4.22bn), lowering its original offer by $350m in the wake of two massive cyber attacks at the internet company.

Last year, Apple was in preliminary talks to purchase Time Warner Cable, according to the Financial Times, but the deal may have fallen through because of other distractions.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is poised to conquer the box office in the US for the third straight weekend.

Video streaming pioneer Netflix added more subscribers than projected in the US and abroad during the first quarter.

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Chiquita shareholders got yellow and chose green.

Concerns about slowing global growth and the threat of rising tensions between Russia and the West have pushed US stocks lower.

US stocks stabilised yesterday after earnings from a major beer brewer helped the market stem its recent declines.

Time Warner yesterday reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit and boosted its stock buyback programme but the news failed to prevent its shares from tumbling 11% a day after Rupert Murdoch withdrew his bid for the company.

BSkyB bolstered its pay-TV empire today with the €6.7bn takeover of sister companies in Italy and Germany.

BSkyB’s plan to buy Rupert Murdoch’s pay-TV assets in Italy and Germany for up to €10bn is a bold bet on long-term growth at the expense of short-term profit, but the pioneering British media firm has pulled off such gambles before.

Major US stock indexes rebounded, finishing higher for the third time in four days and lifting the Dow Jones industrial average to its second record close this month.

Disney is buying YouTube channel operator Maker Studios for $500m (€361m) as the family entertainment giant seeks to stay in front of younger viewers increasingly watching short videos online.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone is reportedly set to avoid paying billions of pounds in tax on its mammoth deal to exit the United States.

Vodafone has confirmed it is in talks over a deal that will see it exit the United States through one of the largest corporate transactions of all time.

It was another glaring example of the ever-evolving chasm between old media and new.

On the day before the US presidential election, stock indexes managed slight gains in thin trading.

WARNER Bros, leading a push to spur movie purchases by delaying the availability of DVD rentals, is running into resistance in the US from two of its biggest customers.

FACEBOOK and Time Warner are ganging up on bullies to address a problem that torments millions of children and young adults.

Serious doubts about the health of the job market and the pace of the US economic recovery put markets on edge last night.

Shares pressure in the retail sector weighed on the FTSE 100 Index today as a mixed session on Wall Street also hit stocks.

IT’S a beautiful day for U2’s Bono and the Edge who have seen their stake in Facebook elevate to new heights.

A MASSIVE investment by a major Wall Street bank into social networking site Facebook brings its value to $50bn (€37 billion), making it worth more than Time Warner, eBay and Yahoo.

IT’S time to celebrate again in Middle Earth.

Peter Jackson is set to direct The Hobbit, the two-part prequel to the popular Lord Of The Rings trilogy and start shooting in February, Warner Bros said today.

A strong opening on America’s benchmark share index helped secure gains on the FTSE 100 Index today as global markets rallied higher.

Hollywood media giant Time Warner is in talks to take over 'Footballers’ Wives' and 'Supernanny' television producer Shed Media, it was confirmed today.

Online social network Bebo was facing an uncertain future today after its parent firm revealed plans to sell or shut down the site just two years after buying it for $850m (€635m).

Struggling internet company AOL plans to sell or shut down social website Bebo, which it bought for $850m (€634m) nearly two years ago.

Internet giant AOL's chief executive has turned down a bonus of at least $1.5m (€1.07m) for 2009, a company report revealed.

AOL is planning to cut about a third of its workers if its planned spin off from Time Warner goes ahead.

UP to 200 jobs are to be created by Imagine Communications group as it spends €100 million rolling out, what it claims, will be the country’s fastest, most affordable and highest quality broadband technology.

Ashton Kutcher was crowned Twitter king today – for the time being at least.

Wall Street is now worrying about the companies usually seen as safe havens.

Google is releasing its own web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine.

Internet giant Yahoo! said today it was willing to talk to Microsoft about a potential takeover deal, but wants the software firm to up its US$41bn (€26.1bn) proposal.

BEBO has been bought by internet company AOL for $850 million (€545m) cash.

AOL and Yahoo! were today said to have held talks as the search engine considers potential deals to help it evade the clutches of Microsoft.