Close inspection of the dotDigital share price reflects a decisive shift in the tectonic plates that underlie the digital marketing world.

WPP Group raised its full-year outlook this morning as it said advertising is set to benefit from worldwide events such as The Olympics and Paralympics, UEFA Football Championships and US Presidential Elections. 

Ever wondered what a biotech company does and what the people in white coats are actually doing? This Proactive guide to biotechs gives an overview of the industry.

The emergence of a potentially new and significant investor in DCD Media (LON:DCD) has piqued the market’s interest in the TV production company.

Making it big and completing the transformation from an explorer into a fully fledged E&P company is becoming more difficult.This could leave many junior oil firms as cheap takeover targets for larger better funded companies, according to a report today.

BSkyB issued a swift rejection of the UK Competition Commission’s accusation today that the satellite broadcaster’s control over pay-TV movie rights in the UK is restricting competition, leading to higher prices and reduced choice and innovation for subscribers. BSkyB will no doubt be making louder protests of innocence ahead of the Commission’s final report on the matter, due early next year.

BSkyB’s success in securing live Formula 1 racing has been hailed as ‘astute’ by Royal Bank of Scotland analysts. The deal should help support the satellite broadcaster’s subscriber growth, especially given the average F1 audience on the BBC is three times the average Premier League football audience on Sky.

NetPlay TV reported first half year results today to 30 June 2011 revealing it had turned the corner into profitability following the restructuring of the business. City brokers Daniel Stewart and Panmure Gordon were upbeat about the firm

Royal Bank of Scotland analysts Paul Goode and William Mairs reckon Sky is well-placed to thrive despite tough UK consumer environment. They reckon investors need to switch their focus back to the fundamentals of the business now that the NewsCorp merger looks unlikely to succeed in the near term.

Both Panmure Gordon and Daniel Stewart believe the association of News Corporation with the News of the World phone hacking scandal will prove detrimental to its attempts to take over BSkyB. Daniel Stewart responded to Prime Minister David Cameron's declaration this morning of an end to the "cosy relationship" between the media and politicans by saying it is clear a speedy approval of News Corp's bid for BSkyB "is unlikely".

The high profile internet entrepreneur plans to hit the acquisition trail in the booming social media sector. His new AIM-listed vehicle, called Jellybook, is expected to raise at least £3 million by 20 June 2011.

However it is not all plain sailing and regulation remains a key issue for Sky shareholders.... on two different fronts.

Total gross bets for Q4 rose 25% quarter on quarter to £157 million and posted another increase in Q1 2010, climbing 6% to £166 million

Last week Play LA announced another acquisition , but unlike previous transactions, its move to acquire Arsenal-mania.com represented a significant move to tap into a potentially underexploited online source of sports fans.

With the rise in multi channel TV and ever growing sophistication of computer games, the animation industry is expected to double in turnover in India by 2013, to be worth some $790 million

It is no exaggeration to say that gambling is as old as the human race itself, it is, however, with the arrival of Internet that gambling went en masse

The media sector is a classic early cycle investment, where any pick up in sales can represent a significant increase in earnings. In this vein I believe ITV is a contrarian turnaround play

NetPlay TV PLC (AIM: NPT) announced raising £12.84 million before expenses in a placing and agreement on an interactive games supply deal to Playtech Ltd for five years.