The Technology Strategy Board, a UK government-funded exploratory digital helper agency, is giving £1.8 million to a new consortium comprising Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), BT (NYSE: BT), the Internet Advertising Bureau and digital agency Somethin’ Else, to develop a “cloud radio” service codenamed “Apollo”.

—*BSkyB*: *BSkyB* has tapped ex-Burger King executive Andy Brent as its group brand marketing director, medianguardian.co.uk reports. He joins on October 1, and will be oversee the company’s annual marketing budget of over £100 million pounds. His immediate responsibilities include building on *BSkyB’s* Sky+ ads and the “See, Speak Surf”…