CEO: Last News

Bus passengers can now get help accessing discounted travel on the Bee Network. A new partnership between Transport for Greater Manchester and ten Credit Unions across the region means bus users can pay for an annual ticket in instalments - resulting in a discount of up to £250 a year compared to other fares.

Stirling’s MP has revealed the reasons behind his vote in today’s debate on assisted dying.

Tua Tagovailoa is a NFL superstar, so of course, fans want to know more about the 26-year-old Miami Dolphins quarterback’s personal life.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has confirmed another major update, despite developers moving onto new projects.Back in March, Baldur’s Gate 3 developers Larian Studios confirmed it wouldn’t be releasing a sequel or an expansion to the hit game despite starting work on both projects before deciding to scrap them. “We’re not going to make [what] everybody is expecting.

BBC presenter Mishal Husain has announced her departure after 26 years with the corporation.

“In Hollywood, people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis,” David Geffen once said, nailing it about the true business of show business. “But I don’t want to be a tennis player.”

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Some partnerships are not built to last. In 2019, Cindi Berger and Mark Owens merged Hollywood’s two largest publicity firms, PMK*BNC and Rogers & Cowan, forming a marketing colossus with Berger as chairman and Owens as CEO. Owens has since been fired, and the combined entity — now known as R&CPMK — is accusing him of stealing employees, clients and confidential information to launch 2pm Sharp, a rival publicity firm.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 is still breaking records after a massive launch last month.Shortly after it was released at the end of October, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the launch of Black Ops 6 was the “biggest ever” for a Call Of Duty title. He went on to say that the title “set a record for day one players, as well as Game Pass subscriber adds on launch day.

Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts just sold $20.4 million worth of stock in the media giant.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast, has sold $20.4 million worth of shares in the media and cable giant, a small portion of his holdings. The 469,515 shares Roberts sold on Nov. 26 represent less than 2% of his Comcast stock ownership.

21 UK festivals had already been cancelled, postponed or scrapped, including Nozstock Hidden Valley who announced in December that 2024 would be their final incarnation after 26 years due to “soaring costs” and financial risk”.Elsewhere, the fan favourite Shepton Mallet skating and music festival NASS announced that they wouldn’t be putting on an event this summer either as it was “just not economically feasible to continue”. Bluedot announced a year off for the land to “desperately” recover after being struck by heavy rain and cancellations last summer, and, in April, PennFest cancelled their 2024 festival due to a “challenging economic climate”.AIF’s CEO John Rostron called 2024 a “devastating period” for festival organisers in the UK.

Chief executive Omar Berrada has said Manchester United will analyse their options 'in the upcoming year' amid their plans to regenerate Old Trafford.

NBCUniversal cable networks and businesses Comcast intends to spin off next year? As you would expect, there’s a degree of anxiety over the move to create “SpinCo,” carved off from Comcast and NBCU, with a number of unanswered questions about what’s next. And there’s dismay over the perception that SpinCo is “a mishmash of shitty stuff,” as one employee put it — casualties of the streaming wars.

Music Radar has examined the current state of the “music creation economy”, with one key finding being that each day sees more new tracks arriving on streaming services than were released “in the calendar year of 1989”.Will Page, former Chief Economist of Spotify and PRS For Music, added: “And more of that music is being done by artists themselves, meaning there’s even more demand for music production software.”The report also notes that there was a 12 per cent increase in the number of music creators between 2021 and 2022, with the number standing at 75.9 million.It also predicts the number will more than double by the end of the decade, with an estimated total of 198.2 million music creators by 2030.“Not only will casual music creation become mainstream, it will trigger an unprecedented widening of the music creator economy funnel,” the report said.It has previously been reported that in 2023, 120,000 tracks were being added to Spotify and other streaming services each day, for an annual total of over 43 million.This summer, Spotify revealed it had topped expectations with its profits and premium subscriber numbers, despite the controversies surrounding the platform.It had a 2024 second quarter revenue of £3.2billion, up 20 per cent on the previous quarter, and a net profit of £230million.These figures follow the service raising prices for most of its existing plans in early June, and cutting down 17 per cent of its workforce in order to save costs at the end of 2023.It is likely the profits also benefited from the streaming service officially demonetising all songs on the platform with fewer than 1,000 streams. That policy was launched on April 1, but had been planned by the platform for some time.

Barbara Taylor Bradford, author of A Woman of Substance, which was adapted into a hugely successful Channel 4 drama series, has died aged 91. Taylor Bradford died yesterday after a short illness.

Kate Nash has defended her ‘Butts For Tour Buses’ OnlyFans campaign, arguing that it is vital that women are “in control of their bodies”.Earlier this week, the ‘Foundations’ singer announced that she had started an account on the online subscription service as a way of raising money for her UK and European tour, which kicked off on Thursday (November 21).Explaining her decision, she said: “Whilst touring is the best job EVER it is currently technically what you might call a passion project for a lot of artists in 2024.”She went on to state that while ticket prices are rising, most touring musicians are “struggling to be able to afford to actually play shows”.“Costs of travel, accommodation, food, promotion & employees have also gone up in price but musicians are not seeing changes in their gig fees to help pay for all these rising costs,” she added. “So this Christmas I’m asking that buy either a piece of my merch or my arse on my new ONLYFANS account katenyash87 to support me paying great wages & putting on a high quality show as I will not sacrifice either of things.”Now, Nash has spoken out in defence of her decision to start the OnlyFans channel, saying she wanted to address accusations that it is a “sad” thing to do.“Don’t be ‘sad’ that I started an onlyfans to fund my tours,” she wrote on Instagram.

Philippe Clement is under serious pressure again at Rangers after their latest fumble against Dundee United.

Rangers were taught a lesson the last time they faced French opposition.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has agreed a cricket rights broadcast deal stretching eight years with the Asian Cricket Council. The deal encompasses all editions of the Men’s and Women’s Asia Cups, Men’s and Women’s Under-19 Asia Cups, and the Men’s and Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cups. The agreement was sealed after a bidding process and the winning bid represents a 70% increase in the rights value, the ACC said without sharing the bid price. Quoting anonymous sources, multiple Indian media sources reported the value of the contract at $170 million. The substantial increase in rights value “will enable the ACC to channel significant resources into grassroots programs, infrastructure development, and talent pathways, especially for associate nations,” the organization said. “Congratulations to the ACC for conducting a fair and transparent bidding process for the rights to the ACC tournaments! We are delighted to bring these action-packed tournaments, which will also include India and Pakistan matches, to our viewers for the next 8 years,” said SPNI’s MD & CEO, Gaurav Banerjee. Sony had been looking to expand its TV and streaming businesses in India through a merger deal with Zee Entertainment Enterprises.

Bob Iger, who is in the home stretch of his two-chapter run as CEO of the Walt Disney Co., is selling $42.7 million in stock.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Doha, Qatar’s capital city and main financial hub, saw serious star traffic this week from Hollywood players and world leaders. Heads of state including President Barack Obama, former British prime ministers Boris Johnson and Tony Blair, “Deadpool and Wolverine” star Ryan Reynolds, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and host of other big names hit the Arabian Peninsula for the inaugural Sportico World Summit. The publication hosted an intimate gathering of 75 top creatives, politicians and thinkers to discuss worldwide issues and foster alliances across borders.