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TV advertising exceeds £5bn for first time

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/02/23/tv-advertising-exceeds-5bn-for-first-time/

- Television advertising has surpassed 5 billion mark for the first time in history , a report has found

- Revenues from TV advertising rose from 7.4pc to $5.27 billion last year, the sixth consecutive year of growth according to TV marketing body Think box.

- On-line businesses are the second largest TV advertising category, with investment of more than $500 billion dollars up 14pc on 2014

- It said that social media giant Facebook was the biggest-spending new TV advertiser, ploughing £10.8m into on-screen adverts.

I think that this is good for the television industry as many advertisers have been going to digital media institutions to pay for advertisements in which there has been a decline in TV advertising so its beneficial to the TV industry in which the TV industry is not facing any cuts or anything.

Google boss Sundar Pichai handed shares worth $199m

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/12147452/Google-boss-Sundar-Pichai-handed-shares-worth-199m.html

- Google's chief executive has been handed shares worth $199m (£138m), making him the highest paid boss in the US.

- Sundar Pichai, who became head of the search giant in October after a company-wide reorganisation, was awarded 273,328 shares, filling showed. The shares will vest every three months until 2019.

- Mr Pichai now owns stock in Alphabet, Google’s parent company, worth $650m

- However, his wealth still pales in comparison to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are worth $34.6bn and $33.9bn respectively.

- Large numbers of shares were also handed to other executives at Google, which is responsible for 99.4pc of Alphabet’s total revenues

- Diane Greene, head of Google’s cloud computing business, received stock worth $42.8m.

- Elsewhere, Ruth Porat, the chief financial officer of Alphabet, received equity worth $38.3m.

- The awards came just weeks after Google agreed to pay £130m to the UK  in a bid to draw a line under its long-running tax row.

In conclusion I believe that Google is a company at the top of their game in which they can afford to play around with shares and experiment to make much more money from public funding.