Media reform is needed to give publishers greater clout with potential advertisers, says the most senior News Corp executive in Australia.

Carsales.com.au has adopted a sliding scale of advertising rates, under which the listing price for cars over $30,000 will rise by nearly 40 per cent.

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Keeping its perch at the top of the advertising roost is going to get harder.

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The Ed Sheeran cameo didn't help things, either.

The women, given the pseudonyms Jane Doe 1 and 2, were named by blogger Shane Dowling but denied the allegations.

Telecommunications companies are misleading customers over broadband internet speeds and the worst offenders will likely face prosecution over dodgy advertising by the end of the year, the consumer watchdog says.

Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has warned that any delay in approving its $19.2 billion acquisition of pay TV company Sky would signal to other companies that the UK wasn't "open for business" as the country leaves the European Union.

An Audi commercial that aired in theatres and online in China is drawing ire for comparing women to used cars - another bump in the road for the German automaker, which has seen its sales by a third in its former growth market.

Legal action by Ten's administrators this week has unearthed two letters from its billionaire shareholders' advisers that resulted in the board calling in corporate undertakers to manage the television network and put it up for sale.

Village Roadshow and its co-executive chairman have jointly invested $1.5 million in Linius Technologies, a firm whose primary product makes digital video files easier to manipulate.

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This salacious battle is over. Goliath won and David looks set to be bankrupted.

ASIC has raised concerns about KordaMentha's independence ahead of its appointment as administrator to Network Ten, at a hearing in the Federal Court.

The former lover of Seven West Media boss Tim Worner has been ordered to foot the company's legal bill after the Supreme Court found she acted "unreasonably".

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Follow the advice of the man who turned tennis into a global economic powerhouse.

The former lover of Seven West Media boss Tim Worner has taken aim at the company.

After what Facebook declared were 'promising tests' in Australia and Thailand, the company is now about to expand its Messenger ads beta push more broadly.

Australia's smallest cinemas are looking for more bargaining power.

Australia's fourth-biggest telco, Vocus Group, has received a second takeover offer of $3.50 a share as Asia-based private equity firm Affinity Equity Partners entered the fray.

It was her first opportunity to speak in court but the woman at the centre of a bitter legal battle with Seven West Media said little other than "Hello, Amber speaking" before the hearing was halted.

Local production companies for some of Ten's most popular shows have been listed as unsecured creditors and are collectively owed tens of millions of dollars.

Seven West Media boss's ex-lover waged a "vindictive" and "arrogant" campaign to humiliate him, court hears.

Amber Harrison has walked away from her legal battle with Seven West Media and will consent to a permanent gag order preventing her speaking about the company and her affair with chief executive Tim Worner.

Marketing agency Appco Group is suing Seven Network for malicious falsehood over an expose alleging the fundraising organisation retains more than a fair share of money it collects on behalf of charities, according to documents filed with the Federal Court.

Media billionaires Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon face stiff competition and a race against time in their bid to take over the besieged Ten Network, Fusion Media's Steve Allen says..

Two of Ten Network Holdings' billionaire backers, Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon, have lodged a proposal to jointly bid for the troubled broadcaster with the competition regulator.

Fairfax Media will continue with its plans to float and keep a majority stake in online real estate business Domain, after two unsolicited bids from US private equity firms melted away over the weekend.

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What did the private equity groups see that sent them heading for the hills?

PPB Advisory will start spruiking Network Ten to potential buyers on behalf of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia after the lender officially appointed the firm as receivers on Saturday morning.

Fairfax Media will remain in shareholders' hands after private equity firm TPG informed the board on Sunday afternoon it was withdrawing its $2.76 billion offer to buy out the company.