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• BBC NEWS | Technology | Skills shortage hits games firms
  The games industry says British universities are failing to equip graduates with the skills it needs. The warning comes from the industry campaign group “Games Up?”, which says games developers in Britain are facing a serious skills shortage.
  (tags: Gaming)
• FT.com / Companies / Telecoms – Business ‘yet to be convinced by iPhone’
  Apple could face an uphill battle convincing big businesses to abandon the BlackBerry in favour of its iPhone mobile handset, according to a study released on Wednesday. An analysis of responses from 105 chief information officers by Sanford Bernstein, th
  (tags: iphone)
• FT.com / Companies / Media & internet – DreamWorks in talks with Reliance
  Steven Spielberg and the founders of the DreamWorks studio are in talks with India’s Reliance Big Entertainment about financing their new film venture, in a move that will see DreamWorks end its three-year association with Paramount Pictures, the Hollyw
  (tags: Hollywood)
• FT.com / Companies / Media & internet – ITV in deal to produce shows with Fox
  ITV has signed a potentially ground-breaking deal to develop new programmes with Twentieth Century Fox TV using joint funding and combined teams of US and British writers and producers.
  (tags: broadcast)
• Yahoo UK appoints Mark Rabe as sales chief | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Mark Rabe has been appointed to head Yahoo’s UK sales team, replacing Blake Chandlee who left the firm for Facebook last October.
  (tags: Yahoo)

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