Techcrunch: Tesco acquires majority of Blinkbox to take Internet-on-TV mainstream
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 17:14
"Tesco … has acquired an 80 percent stake in British video-on-demand startup Blinkbox from investors Eden Ventures and Nordic Venture Partners for an undisclosed sum."
New Media Age: Tesco launches recipes channel
Friday, 26 February 2010, 12:00
"Tesco.com has launched a food site positioned directly against UKTV’s Good Food Channel and BBC Good Food."
South Wales Argus: Argus woman asks Newport – Is it OK to shop in pyjamas?
Monday, 8 February 2010, 10:26
"As a Tesco store's ban on shoppers wearing pyjamas polarised opinion, [South Wales Argus reporter] Natalie Crockett donned her pjs and took to the streets of Newport to test public opinion on whether it is acceptable to wear nightwear in public."
Hitwise Intelligence UK: Facebook the most searched for brand in the UK
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 11:18
Robin Goad: "Facebook’s UK Internet traffic has more than doubled over the last year and it is now the second most visited website in the UK after google.co.uk. The social network accounted for 1 in every 24 UK Internet visits during the month of February and traffic to the site has already increased by 18.6% during 2009. … The remaining four brands are all online retailers: eBay, Amazon, Argos and Tesco. eBay and Amazon remain the most popular online retail brands, but the more traditional high street players are gaining on them all the time. "
Independent: Every little helps the magazine with 5.65m readers
Monday, 2 March 2009, 14:17
Dawn Alford: "Tesco Magazine has been identified by the latest National Readership Survey as being the most-read women's magazine in Britain – with a circulation of 5.65 million … We have taken a deep breath – and banished professional models and celebrities from our covers. Instead, we will be using, for want of a better word, real people as cover stars."
The New York Review of Books: A Chill on ‘The Guardian’
Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 16:34
Alan Rusbridger: "Tesco may not have set out to chill debate about its affairs through the use of legal actions in Britain and elsewhere, but there is little doubt that the effect of major corporations resorting to highly aggressive and expensive lawsuits will be to discourage investigations of complex financial affairs at the very moment when most readers might expect more and better coverage of them."
Monday, 5 May 2008, 09:47
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Stephen Glover on the Editorial Intelligence survey on columnist influence: "[T]his is a somewhat incestuous exercise, with like-minded people drawn from a narrow circle, patting one another on the back." Amen.
Thursday, 10 April 2008, 13:40
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Alex Hawkes of Accountacy Age has been covering the Guardian-Tesco libel case from another perspective…
