Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is to sell its 39% stake in broadcaster Sky to Comcast.

Twenty-First Century Fox has triggered a 46-day deadline to raise its bid for Sky in a battle with Comcast for control of the British pay-TV group.

Netflix shares pared their worst drop in two years, regaining a key support level for the stock.

Sky shares leaped to an 18-year high yesterday as investors bet that a transatlantic battle for the TV group had further to run after Comcast’s $34bn (€29bn) bid trumped an offer from Rupert Murdoch made just hours earlier.

Finding billionaires in Silicon Valley isn’t hard. But tracking down members of the three-comma club at Apple is a less fruitful endeavour.

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Netherlands-based Ziggo Sport — owned by John Malone’s Liberty Global and Vodafone — said they had been targeted in a European Commission investigation into a possible cartel in sports broadcasting rights.

The Premier League is waiting for a late delivery from Amazon.

Ireland’s leading consumer advocate has called on Sky to cut the costs of premiership soccer subscriptions after it emerged it will pay 16% less per game in the latest auction of English Premier League rights, write Eamon Quinn, Joe Mayes and David Hellier.

Staff at Sky News have piled into the debate over the broadcaster’s potential takeover, warning the competition watchdog that blocking the deal would trigger 500 job losses and deliver a "deeply damaging" blow to British journalism.

Snow White, Cork Opera House

Crabs are noted for moving sideways, but Ryan Tubridy will be moving in every direction tonight, writes Evelyn Ring.

Vampirina, animated in Dublin for Disney, is about a girl vampire who is also sweet and lovable, writes Ed Power.

Apple made its biggest jump in six months on Wednesday, helping send the Dow Jones industrial average above 22,000 points for the first time.

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"People had to wait five days to get a table just to see the show."

Irish tourist hotspots are to be featured on the famous US game show Wheel of Fortune, which is giving one of its lucky contestants an all-expenses paid trip to Ireland, producers have confirmed.

I’m a very positive thinker. It’s the only way to survive in this industry.

Walt Disney said it was taking a stake in a streaming video technology company to sell more content directly to consumers, as it reported quarterly profit and revenue that beat analysts’ estimates fuelled by movie studio hits.

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

Merlin Entertainments said it might be another two years before visitor numbers at its Alton Towers theme park recover to previous levels following a roller coaster crash in June which hit summer trade and took a chunk out of profits.

The Walt Disney company did a poor job of bringing joy to people in Japan the other day, as it wished them congratulations on the worst possible day.

Apple’s disappointing earnings matter to more than just the investors who hold its shares.

Winter is coming, again, after Disney unveiled a sequel to the mega-hit animation Frozen.

Irish animated film Song of the Sea will compete against some of the biggest players in the movie business after being nominated for an Oscar.

The European Parliament’s Green Party has cleared the first legal hurdle for the creation of a committee to look into tax evasion in the wake of revelations about hundreds of secret deals for companies in Luxembourg.

Star Wars Episode VII is still more than a year away, but the film is springing more leaks than a reactor core after a shoot-out in Detention Block AA-23.

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Walt Disney has come to the rescue of its loss-making subsidiary Euro Disney with a €1bn funding deal which could give the US group total control over Europe’s biggest tourist attraction.

PAMELA Lyndon Travers, author of Mary Poppins, would not, I think, have been best pleased with Emma Thompson’s reincarnation of her in Saving Mr Banks.

Here’s our quick rundown of what’s new in Irish cinemas today.

People with disabilities will no longer go straight to the front of lines at Disneyland and Walt Disney World after growing abuse of the system, park officials said.

Colin Farrell and Paula Patton are in talks to star in a 'World of Warcraft' movie.

Paul Greengrass says it's a "big honour" to open the BFI London Film Festival with his new movie 'Captain Phillips'.

Disappointing earnings news and a slump in bank stocks tugged the US stock market down yesterday, giving major indexes their first three-day drop since June.

Activision Blizzard and a group led by chief executive Bobby Kotick have agreed to buy out most of Vivendi’s stake in the biggest US video-game publisher for $8.17bn (€6.15bn), ending five years of control by the French media and telecommunications company.

Benetton has become the latest global retailer to agree to sign a one-of-a-kind pact to improve safety at Bangladesh factories following a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers.

Saoirse Ronan is the frontrunner to play Cinderella in the Disney remake.

The excitement levels of sci-fi fans have been blasted into orbit after filmmakers announced that three new Stars Wars movies are to hit the big screen.

An unusual sight greeted guests at New York’s posh St Regis’s hotel this week: Dozens of investors trickled out carrying Manchester United hats and footballs after a marketing event for the club’s upcoming initial public offering.