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New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI) UK-based Vodafone Group has cleared dues of around Rs 11,650 crore or about 109 million pound that it raised against shares of Vodafone Idea, according to a regulatory filing. Vodafone Group had pledged almost the entire stake in VIL to raise the debt. The pledge was created in favour of HSBC Corporate Trustee Company (UK) for the debt raised by Mauritius and India-based entities of Vodafone Group. "On 27 December 2024, HSBC Corporate Trustee Company (UK) Limited acting as the security trustee for the lenders has released the pledges pursuant to repayment of the outstanding dues owed to the lenders by the Vodafone Promoter Shareholders. "Consequently, the indirect encumbrance on 15,720,826,860 equity shares of the target company held by the Vodafone Promoter Shareholders representing 22.56 per cent of the equity share capital of the target company on a fully diluted basis has been released," the filing said. "Consequently, the indirect encumbrance on 15,720,826,860 equity shares of the target company held by the Vodafone Promoter Shareholders representing 22.56 per cent of the equity share capital of the target company on a fully diluted basis has been released," the filing said. The shares are valued at around Rs 11,649 crore as per the closing price of Rs 7.41 apiece of Vodafone Idea stock on Friday. Vodafone Group holds a 22.56 per cent stake, while the Aditya Birla Group holds 14.76 per cent. The government has a 23.15 per cent stake as of September 30, 2024. (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)

Potential suitors have again begun circling ITV, Britain’s biggest terrestrial commercial broadcaster, after a prolonged period of share price weakness and renewed questions about its long-term strategic destiny. Sky News has learnt that a number of possible bidders for parts or all of the company, whose biggest shows include Love Island, have in recent weeks held early-stage discussions about teaming up to pursue a potential transaction. TV industry sources said this weekend that CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster - thought to be France's Groupe TF1 - were among those which had been starting to study the merits of a potential offer. The sources added that RedBird Capital-owned All3Media and Mediawan, which is backed by the private equity giant KKR, were also on the list of potential suitors for the ITV Studios production arm. One cautioned this weekend that none of the work on potential bids was at a sufficiently advanced stage to require disclosure under the UK's stock market disclosure rules, and suggested that ITV's board - chaired by Andrew Cosslett - had not received any recent unsolicited approaches. That meant that the prospects of any formal approach materialising was highly uncertain. The person added, however, that Dame Carolyn McCall, ITV's long-serving chief executive, had been discussing with the company's financial advisers the merits of a demerger or other form of separation of its two main business units. Its main banking advisers are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Robey Warshaw. ITV's shares are languishing at just 65.5p, giving the whole company a market capitalisation of £2.51bn. The stock rose more than 5% on Friday amid vague market chatter about a possible takeover bid. Bankers and analysts believe that ITV Studios, which made Disney+'s hit show, Rivals, would be worth more than the entire company's market capitalisation in a break-up of ITV. People close to the situation said that under one possible plan being studied, CVC could be interested in acquiring ITV Studios, with a European broadcast partner taking over its broadcasting arm, including the ITVX streaming platform. "At the right price, it would make sense if CVC wanted the undervalued production business, with TF1 wanting an English language streaming service in ITVX, along with the cashflows of the declining channels," one broadcasting industry veteran said this weekend. "They would only get the assets, though, in a deal worth double the current share price." Takeover speculation about ITV, which competes with Sky News' parent company, has been a recurring theme since the company was created from the merger of Carlton and Granada more than 20 years ago. ITV said this month that it would seek additional cost savings of £20m this year as it continued to deal with the fallout from last year's strikes by Hollywood writers and actors. It added that revenues at the Studios arm would decline over the current financial year, with advertising revenues sharply lower in the fourth quarter than in the same period a year earlier because of the tough comparison with 2023's Rugby World Cup. Allies of Dame Carolyn, who has run ITV since 2018, argue that she has transformed ITV, diversifying further into production and overhauling its digital capabilities. The majority of ITV's revenue now comes from profitable and growing areas, including ITVX and the Studios arm, they said. By 2026, those areas are expected to account for more than two-thirds of the group's sales. This year, its production arm was responsible for the most-viewed drama of the year on any channel or platform, Mr Bates versus The Post Office. In its third-quarter update earlier this month, Dame Carolyn said the company's "good strategic progress has continued in the first nine months of 2024 driven by strong execution and industry-leading creativity". "ITV Studios is performing well despite the expected impact of both the writer's strike and a softer market from free-to-air broadcasters." She said the unit would achieve record profits this year. ITV and CVC declined to comment, while TF1, RedBird and Mediawan did not respond to requests for comment.Canada’s privacy commissioner says LinkedIn has paused training its artificial intelligence models on data from Canadian users. Philippe Dufresne says his office was informed of the pause by the tech platform, which he had reached out to after media reports suggested LinkedIn was training AI models with data from Canadian users it had not informed of the practice first. Dufresne says he has requested information from LinkedIn about the company’s training practices as well as how it obtains consent from its members. He says LinkedIn believed it had taken a “privacy protective” approach to training its AI models but will now work to ensure it has met the requirements of privacy laws before restarting the practice. Dufresne says even when personal information is publicly accessible, it is subject to privacy laws and must be adequately protected. LinkedIn suspended using U.K. user data to train its artificial intelligence models in September, after Britain’s information commissioner raised similar concerns. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 10, 2024.