UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of video on-demand viewership.

Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT reported in Wednesday’s interim disclosure for its October-to-January earnings.

Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition - UK digital revenues made up for print revenue falls between October and December.

Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, the Lagardere group reported, as it warned it would write off almost €1 ($1.3/£0.83) billion against other group activities.

Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country’s largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU), said, as it reported record quarterly revenue to its Nasdaq investors.

BT (NYSE: BT) signed up 39,000 customers to its Vision hybrid Freeview/IPTV service between September and December, taking it to 679,000. Now, with its relaunch on YouView still delayed, BT is taking it upon itself to relaunch the service’s platform.

Sony’s new president and CEO has quite a task on his hands. A day after Kazuo Hirai was appointed to replace Howard Stringer, who remains as chair, he announced the company plummeted in to the red by 320 percent.

BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growth slow-down and potential threats from newcomers.

With most of the major handset makers having reported earnings for the quarter that ended in December, analyst houses are laying out their rankings in global smartphone and overall mobile shipments. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has just about managed to keep its top position overall, while Apple’s phenomenal quarter has put…

Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The handset maker confirmed analyst estimates that it has sold over a million Lumia Windows Phone handsets - but that didn’t stop a horrible 31 percent slide in its…

Euro money (the currency) may be going through a rough patch, but Euromoney (the publisher) is in rude health.

One day before Nokia is due to announce its next set of quarterly results, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has made three announcements: a milestone reached with Series 40 feature phone purchases, and a buyer for its manufacturing plant in Romania, and a re-casting of its quarterly results for the three quarters…

Google’s Q4 UK revenue rose 21 percent from the previous year to $1 billion, though German revenue growth slowed during the quarter, the search giant said on Thursday.

Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says it is putting cash made from selling its older businesses toward buying new ones in digital and emerging markets.

The UK’s leading video game retailer again finds itself looking forward to another console upgrade cycle, after Christmas sales came in 12.9 percent down from 2010.

HMV’s CEO says the slowdown in plastic music and movie sales is itself slowing down - even though its Christmas was nearly a tenth worse than the previous year.

Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market—over half of all smartphones being used today—but that rising tide is not lifting all boats. Sales figures out today from the two largest Android device makers, Samsung and HTC, present two different pictures, with Samsung…

Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) continued to struggle during its third fiscal quarter after taking a huge charge earlier in the quarter related to the poor performance of its Playbook tablet. Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are still at the helm of the struggling company, but promised yet again…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q310	Net Inc. vs Q310
Research in Motion	Release		6%	70%

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HTC and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may be cautioning investors about more choppy economic times ahead, but that is not the story, it seems, for all handset makers, as forecasts go up for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) based on strong iPhone sales. However, iPad tablets are not getting the same treatment, and…