Help-desk software provider Zendesk today launched a series of partner programs in Europe, called Zendesk Ambassadors. Clients joining the program have the chance to earn money from referring new businesses to Zendesk. The program is open to businesses of any size and includes access to private foru

BT has reported a pre-tax profit lift of 18% to £628m in the third quarter of 2011 and said it had added 262,000 customers over its broadband network in the period, boosting its overall broadband customer base to 6.1million.

Editor's Note: This series of posts is sponsored by Tekes and produced in co-operation with ArcticStartup to share experiences from startups about their funding experiences. From offhand comments in forum comments, hackathons, and local tech events, I'm sure many first-time Finnish entrepreneurs hav

So, about that $100bn figure ... Partly it is because of the breathless anticipation we saw ahead of its flotation prospectus, partly it is because it's such a delicious, round number, but Facebook has failed to dampen expectations that it could hit a $100bn valuation – either when it sells shares t

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has confirmed that he will allocate £45 million of the Get Britain Building fund to help unlock 18 stalled housing projects.

Housing Minister Grant Shapps is now looking outside of Government departments in his bid to release enough land to build 100,000 new homes within the Spending Review Period, which ends in 2015.

Kier Partnership Homes has been chosen as the preferred bidder to redevelop a former Derby hospital into a residential-led mixed use development. The deal has been brokered between the Kier Partnership, the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and Derby City Council.

Individuals do not have the right to avoid self-incrimination in court if they are accused of unlawfully intercepting confidential commercial or technical information belonging to someone else, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp belatedly announced the appointment of Lex Fenwick as the replacement for Les Hinton as chief executive of The Wall Street Journal's publisher, Dow Jones, yesterday.

The Leveson Inquiry will hear from Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, on Monday.

Deepening controversy over The Times's outing of an anonymous police blogger yesterday led to the paper's editor being recalled to give fresh evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.

Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile took five years to tell customers their voicemails had been hacked by the NOTW, they admitted to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday.

After a record breaking year, Spark FM; the North East's Best Radio station is ready to welcome the new year with a new look, a new sound and the launch of our all new Magazine, exclusively for young people in Sunderland.

The nominations have been announced for the annual hospital radio awards.

Burst Radio uses new ‘crowdfunding’ strategy already hugely successful in USA andAustralia.

The Charles Parker Trust is pleased to announce that this year's Charles Parker Prize for the best Student Radio Feature is now open for entries.

The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times, police correspondence sent to campaigning MP Tom Watson shows.

Ed Miliband will step up his attacks on extravagant bankers' bonuses on Friday, saying banks face intense public anger and isolation unless they change their ways.Related StoriesDeutsche Bank's Ackermann era ends in quarterly lossBig banker bonuses divide BritainPrecedent warning as Assange extradit

Media group appoints the former chief executive of Bloomberg as chief executive of Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former chief risk officer at MF Global who raised red flags about the firm's aggressive trading bets told lawmakers that his warnings contributed to the firm's decision to let him go in early 2011.Related StoriesVillagers scramble for fuel in Europe's big chillDeutsche Ban

Britain's Supreme Court risks jeopardising extraditions to many neighbouring countries if it stops WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes, a lawyer for Swedish prosecutors argued on Thursday.Related StoriesAnalysis - Lilly Alzheimer's drug an unlikely a

The sole tangible purpose for the IPO proceeds is to meet a tax obligation that will be triggered by going public, writes John Gapper

(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Thursday named Bloomberg LP executive Lex Fenwick as chief executive officer of its Dow Jones & Co unit, publisher of The Wall Street Journal.Related StoriesAnalysis - Lilly Alzheimer's drug an unlikely ace in the holeVillagers scramble for fuel in Europ

Group results were dragged down by a further decline at About.com, the consumer information website

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No sign of Sly Bailey

Investors were concerned about the game company's substantial reliance on Facebook, which it turns out is very reliant on Zynga

Baroness Hollins, whose daughter Abigail Witchalls was left paralysed, says press stalked family and fabricated stories

Shareholders to demand Sly Bailey takes pay cut to reflect slump in newspaper group's share price

After just over a month

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Josef Ackermann's reign at Deutsche Bank drew to a close with a surprise quarterly loss on Thursday, caused by a slump in bond trading and by writedowns on Greek debt and holdings in drug and gambling companies.Related StoriesAnalysis - Lilly Alzheimer's drug an unlikely ace in

Tabloid editor Dominic Mohan and Times editor James Harding recalled to Leveson inquiry into phone-hacking

Dominic Mohan's return follows evidence from women's groups who argued tabloids should ban 'sexualised images'

Finnish cloud-based video and gaming service provider G-cluster has received a significant financial investment from French telecom operator SFR. SFR was one of the first companies to deploy G-cluster's gaming service in 2010 and it now joins Intel Capital as the company's financial backer. No detai

Next month's 2012 CeBIT fair will feature a brand new global innovation contest called CODE_n. Short for ’Code of the New’, the contest aims to seek out and promote the world’s most innovative startups involved in the development of new business models for the internet or mobile devices. Six Nordic

The government this week pressured one banker to give up his bonus and humiliated another by stripping him of his knighthood, populist moves that may assuage taxpayer anger over propping up failed banks, but risk long-term damage to the City financial district.Related StoriesAnalysis - Lilly Alzheim

A German social media-backed campaign associating the name 'Cooper' with a a cold front sweeping Europe has been withdrawn

US media group behind MTV and Paramount Pictures says net income fell 65 per cent from $610m to $212m in the fourth quarter

Owner: Condé Nast Agency: In-house

Skive’s Tom Ollerton has joined We Are Social as marketing director as the agency makes a string of high-level hires.

MyDeco CEO Nicole Vanderbilt (pictured) has stepped down from her position just three months after the company relaunched as a direct ecommerce store.

The editor of The Times, James Harding, has been recalled to the Leveson inquiry into media standards over claims of email hacking at his newspaper, according to Sky sources.

The editors of The Times and The Sun have been recalled to give further evidence to the Leveson Inquiry.

Winners of Periodicals Training Council's awards announced

The Guardian will open its doors to the paying public for a weekend in March

US-based SC Johnson has distributed 225 MP3-enabled Lifeplayer radios to remote farm communities in northern Rwanda. SC Johnson is the first to use this new technology in an educational project to support pyrethrum (py) farmers. Initially, the project will benefit more than 5,000 py farmers, which i

Is reach or share more important when it comes to digital? Does the still high amount of listening to FM mean that digital switchover is far away? Matt Deegan picks through more interesting RAJAR figures.

BlackBerry’s share of the smartphone market remains ahead of Google’s Android, while Apple’s iOS is still the clear market leader, with over 40% of smartphone users, according to research.

Made in Manchester's Suzie Pugh and a Monster Too to be broadcast in Ireland.