SportBusiness Staff

Instill Corporation, a provider of e-business services for the $376 billion food service industry, has agreed to provide data warehousing and business intelligence services to Volume Services America?s 122 sports and entertainment food service operating units in the U.S.

The $15m-a-year sponsorship of the Arrows Formula One team by telecommunications company Orange could be jeopardy, according to media speculation.

Boston Media Corporation, a Boston-based internet advertising, media and technology firm, has launched an online sports advertising network.

International athletics chiefs are considering abolishing their arbitration panel and handing over all unresolved disputes to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). For the full story see the FEATURES section of sportbusiness.com.

Private German media giant Kirch Group is in talks to acquire a majority stake in EM.TV & Merchandising AG, the Munich-based firm, industry sources said on Tuesday.

The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) is not considering moving the 2005 world championships away from Britain, IAAF general secretary Istvan Gyulai said on Tuesday.

The race to secure the terrestrial and interactive media to rights to UK horse racing is close to being won by Go Racing, the consortium made up of Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure.

BBC Radio Five Live has beaten its rival talkSPORT to a new multi-million pound deal with the Premier League for live match commentary.

India's cricket board began a meeting in Calcutta to discuss the fate of five Indian players, including former captain Mohammad Azharuddin, named in a federal match-fixing report.

Stefan Gehrke has been named head of the new media department of WIGE MEDIA AG in Germany.