A fascinating interview has just been published in the Press Gazette.
The interviewer is The Genteel Hustler, otherwise known as Will Turvill, an incredibly polite but very persistent young hack. The interviewee is The Kleinmanator, otherwise known as Mark Kleinman, City Editor of Sky News and one of the most profilic merger and acquisition scoopsters working in UK media. Below is the link to the piece:..
Charming Crispin Odey can't seem to catch a break - well, in the mainstream media at least.
Since 2015 he took a shoeing in the press for the terrible performance of his (ironically named) Odey European Fund fund over the last decade amid his prognistcations of doom...
Ben Marlow of The Daily Telegraph, little old Betaville's former employer, has written a lengthy opinion piece on Vodafone.
Let me sum it up for you: if Vodafone doesn't do something quickly to arrest its flagging share price (down almost 50pc over the last five years) it could well easily become a takeover target for one of the "wealthy American telecom giants"...
There was plenty of follow up coverage in today's papers of little old Betaville's Darktrace scoop but the piece that really stood out is the one written by Russell Hotten, a former colleague from time on The Daily Telegraph's city desk...
So, it was good call by my old boss at The Daily Telegraph - Richard Fletcher, now business editor of The Times - to splash on the Elon Musk Twitter bid rumours the other day.
Musk's announcement about his $41 billion ($54.20 a share) offer for Twitter has sent the Twittersphere into total meltdown about what might happen next...
You know the rumours about a potential sale of Chelsea FC are serious when the venerable Wall Street Journal finally decides to get on the story.
The WSJ has just published a piece claiming Roman Abramovich is seeking takeover bids for Chelsea FC, which has won the European champions league twice, ahead of the Russian tycoon being hit by financial sanctions. Below is the link:..
It's that time of the year when the data providers release their deals data and, er, business journalists construct stories out of the information.
So, Reuters are running the line that "global M&A activity fell to a 3-year low in 2020" amid the pandemic. Below is the link:..
Hat tip to Michael O'Dwyer of The Daily Telegraph, who appears to have dug out a rather interesting tale about a foreign exchange broker. Below is the link:
One of Betaville's favourite business commentators today follows the theme I laid out yesterday about Hiscox but probably in a more eloquent style than myself.
I am off course referring to Alistair "acerbic" Osborne, a former boss and colleague from my days at The Daily Telegraph City desk, and his piece in today's The Times about Hiscox's refusal to pay out claims to small and medium-sized businesses. I have pasted the link below:..
A hearty congratulations goes out to former colleague Philip Aldrick, economics editor at The Times. Today he won the the Business and Finance Journalist of the Year award from the Society of Editors.
I have worked across the business desks of 'Fleet Street' for a quite a while and I couldn't think of a more diligent but understated journalist as Phil Aldrick, who I used to work alongside at The Daily Telegraph several years ago...