O2 (UK) telephone line and broadband business of Telefónica UK, trading under the O2 and Be brands. The company agreed to pay £180 million initially, followed by a further £20 million after all customers had been transferred to Sky's existing business. The sale was subject to regulatory approval in April 2013, and was subsequently approved by the Office of Fair Trading on 16 May 2013. O2 began trialling a Near Field Communication (NFC) payment system in 2007. In 2009, O2 was in discussions with large retailers, such as Tesco and W. H. Smith, for the deployment of the necessary electronic point of
News World Communications News World Communications News World Communications Inc. is an international news media corporation. It was founded in New York City, in 1976, by Unification movement founder and leader Sun Myung Moon. Its first two newspapers, "The News World" (later renamed the "New York City Tribune") and the Spanish-language "Noticias del Mundo", were published in New York from 1976 until the early 1990s. In October 2009, Hyun Jin Moon took over as chairman. News World Communications currently owns United Press International, "GolfStyles (formerly "Washington Golf Monthly")", "Segye Ilbo" (South Korea), and "Sekai Nippo" (Japan). Formerly, it owned "The World and I",