Apparently Lord Sugar's brief was to get YouView to market and shoehorn it into people's homes through his big, bad personality. Now that job's seemingly done, as Sugar's checking out to "focus my time and attention into my other businesses" like, err, The Apprentice. Time well spent, obviously. Read More >>
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Lord Sugar's budget TV service, YouView, has lost a High Court appeal concerning its trademark. In a screw-up worthy of a hapless contestant on The Apprentice, it's looking increasingly likely that YouView's gonna have to change it's name. Looks like Lord Sugar's gonna be on the other side of the boardroom for once. Read More >>
We heard yesterday that Lord Sugar had essentially panned the YouView set-top box and said it just wasn’t ready for prime time. Although Sugar is technically the boss of YouView, it seems the rest of the YouView folks might disagree somewhat – some boxes are already out in the wild for testing, with thousands more coming soon. Read More >>
Bad news streaming fans -- those looking forward to a May launch for the "revolutionary" YouView streaming TV service will be sorely disappointed. According to Lord Sugar, it’s not in any shape to launch before the end of 2012, let alone before the Olympics. Read More >>