Faarea MasudBusiness reporter Getty Images ITV has said it is in “preliminary” discussions to sell its television business to Sky for £1.6bn. The talks focus on ITV’s Media and Entertainment division, which include its TV channels as well as its streaming service, ITV X. The discussions with Sky, which is owned by US-based Comcast, come…
I have a decade-old, non-smart Vizio TV in my home office that’s been with me for four moves, and I think it’s time that she retires. It still runs fairly smoothly with a Chromecast providing all the smarts, but if I could upgrade to a similarly sized 4K smart TV at a good price, I…
Cross-border commerce worth billions stalled as Pak-Afghan trade remains suspended Torkham border. Photo: file KHYBER: The Torkham border crossing, one of Pakistan’s busiest trade gateways with Afghanistan, remained closed for commercial traffic for the 26th consecutive day on Wednesday, disrupting bilateral trade and leaving thousands of cargo vehicles stranded on both sides. According to Customs…
On Thursday, Tesla shareholders will vote on whether to grant Elon Musk an enormous pay package, the largest ever awarded to a chief executive by orders of magnitude, or risk him leaving the company in a huff. If this sounds weirdly familiar, it’s because the same thing unfolded nearly a year ago. At the 2024…
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior turned into a forum of revelations and clarifications on Thursday – from a fresh explanation over false propaganda surrounding the new Pakistani passport design to several senators disclosing that they had been defrauded by online scammers. The committee meeting, chaired by Senator Faisal Saleem, discussed various issues, including…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Todd Golden had people yelling at him at halftime Thursday night to get 7-foot-9 center Olivier Rioux into the game. Golden relented with 2:09 to play — and made history in the process — after chants of “We Want Ollie” swept through the O’Connell Center. Rioux became the tallest person…
Can The New York Times steal time and attention away from TikTok or YouTube? Probably not, but the venerable news outlet is moving aggressively in the video space by trying to carve out a strategy that is true to what it is, with less fretting over the specific platform that the videos it produces live…
Fourth European Film Festival brings a cross-continental celebration of art and storytelling to three cities ISLAMABAD: The European Film Festival (EUFF) 2025 is set to return to Pakistan this November, transforming cinema halls in Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore into spaces of artistic dialogue, cultural exchange, and shared storytelling. Hosted by the Delegation of the European…
Carol Burnett is reaching her hand back to offer support to aspiring musical theater performers. The legendary star is backing the Carol Burnett Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television that will be used to support “high-potential undergraduate students in the school’s Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program,” per the university….
Ukraine is having a tougher-than-usual time at the moment. On the front lines, the battle of Pokrovsk is raging and it does not look like Ukraine is winning. Nor do things look good for the country’s energy resilience after months of an intensive Russian air campaign targeting key infrastructure. According to the UN, this could…
