Book publisher reports strong first-half results as it tries to wean itself off Harry Potter and looks forward to Warren Buffett's biography ...

Tecmo, a Japanese video games developer known for gratuitous gore and highly-sexualised female characters, has received a takeover bid from a larger rival as consolidation accelerates in the industry...

Microsoft is buying the parent company of Ciao.com, an online price comparison and product reviews site, as it seeks to improve its European search offering to compete with Google...

The maker of Wii and DS games machines raised its full year operating profit forecast by 23 per cent. It also upped its forecast of unit sales and software shipments for both the home and the handheld console...

The media business fell just short of expectations with first-half operating profits on a like-for-like basis of €255m, up 3.8% on same period last year...

The head GfK says WPP is likely to succeed in its hostile bid for of Taylor Nelson Sofres, the UK market research group...

Europe's largest media group suggested it could sell 15 per cent of RTL, the TV group, to finance a large acquisition, possibly the UK's ITV...

Hartmut Ostrowski's desire to set out a new growth strategy for Bertelsmann is turning into a battle between the expansionist ambitions of its new management team and the constraining financial legacy inherited from his predecessors...

Aegis issued a cautious outlook for the rest of the year as its media buying unit lowered forecasts for global advertising spending...

The planned takeover of Gilat Satellite could become the latest private equity deal to fail if it can not persuade investors to close a deal at or near the price they agreed in March...