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Belgian Newspapers Continue To Bite Hand That Feeds Them - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:46 AM PST

Fresh from winning a European court case forcing Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News to stop exercpting their articles, Belgian news publishers have lost their similar case against the European Commission itself…

Ad-Funded MVNO Blyk To Roll Out In Germany, Spain And Belgium - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 25 Jun 2008 02:28 AM PST

Ad-funded mobile MVNO Blyk will launch in Germany, Spain, and Belgium next year, the company said today. Reuters reports that British-Finnish start up is in “late stage” talks with operators…

Belgian Newspapers To Google: Pay Us £39 Million For Indexing Our News - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 27 May 2008 07:41 PM PST

Put it that way, it does sound absurd, though of course a very small amount for Google: the Belgian newspapers’ association Copiepresse is asking Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to pay up…

Acquia Raises $7 Million First Round For Commercialisation Of Drupal Publishing Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 19 Dec 2007 06:50 AM PST

Acquia, the commercial developer of open source publishing platform Drupal, has raised a $7 million first round led by North Bridge Venture Partners; also participating were Sigma Partners and O’Reilly…

Drupal Forms Commercial Wing To Sell Extra Services To Publishers - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 10 Dec 2007 09:02 AM PST

Dries Buytaert, the Belgian developer behind the Drupal open-source content management system, is launching a start-up to take parts of the effort commercial. Debuted in 2001, Drupal powers newspaper sites…

Netlog’s Growth Fueled By University Students’ Efforts - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 02 Nov 2007 05:40 AM PST

Wall Street Journal talks with Netlog, one of Europe’s broadest and best-populated social networks by virtue of its availability in 13 different languages. Headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, the site claims…

Belgian Publisher Rossel Buys Rendez-Vous Dating Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 22 Oct 2007 04:04 AM PST

Belgian publishing group Rossel has bought dating site Rendez-vous for an undisclosed amount. The site was launched a whole 10 years ago by Alexandre Baudoux and Arnaud Huret. The acquisition…

UK, Europe Now Lead Plateauing US Web 2.0 Investment - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 17 Sep 2007 11:00 PM PST

Web 2.0 investment has peaked in the US and is now being led by Europe and Israel, according to research by Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) VentureOne and Ernst & Young.…

Sport1/Chellomedia Buys Dutch Mobile Sports Site Sportsplaza - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 21 Aug 2007 09:30 PM PST

Digital broadcaster Sport1, part of Chellomedia (Chellomedia is the European based content division of Liberty Global), has taken over mobile sports site Sportsplaza from sports info company Infostrada Sports. The…

Worldwide Broadcasters Tighten Call TV Rules In Wake Of U.K. Scandal - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 17 Aug 2007 08:26 AM PST

Could the U.K.’s participation TV scandal be replicated elsewhere around the world? This Hollywood Reporter feature suggests broadcasters in other countries are getting nervous, too. When a Channel 4 show…

Belgian Court Finds EU Loophole In ISP File-Sharing Culpability - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 24 Jul 2007 05:12 AM PST

A judge presiding over a digital copyright case brought by Belgian content owners is challenging a European law on the subject in a move that could have wider repercussions. In…

Axel Springer To Buy European Woman’s Portal auFeminin; Total To Reach $382 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 26 Jun 2007 12:45 PM PST

Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate, is buying European woman’s portal auFeminin.com. It is doing so in two steps: it has bought a 41.4 percent stake, and after regulatory clearance…

Google Loses To Belgian Newspaper Group Over Content Use - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 13 Feb 2007 05:54 AM PST

Google appears to have suffered a major defeat, as a Belgian court ruled Tuesday that the internet giant violated that country’s copyright law when it linked and published portions of…

Local Mobile Search Gains Traction, Orange Extends Trials - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Mon 29 Jan 2007 07:37 AM PST

Orange UK has strengthened its existing ties with m-spatial, a provider of local mobile search solutions, launching a series of trials using m-spatial’s new Java local search application. The trials…

Belgian Newspaper Group Warns Yahoo On Content, Waits On Google Decision - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 18 Jan 2007 12:34 PM PST

Copiepresse, the Belgian copyright defense group that has been waging war against Google for the past few months, issued a new warning Thurday to Yahoo’s French division to stop reproducing…

VNU To Cut 4K Jobs; Restructures; Sells Euro Business Division To 3i - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Dec 2006 08:23 PM PST

B2B media giant VNU is taking the painful steps necessary: it will cut 4,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of its work force, and sell its European business media division…

Google Settles Dispute With Two Belgian Media Groups; Denmark Delay - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 24 Nov 2006 07:40 PM PST

Google has reached a settlement with Belgian photographers and journalists in a copyright dispute over how Google News links to newspaper content...this means two of five groups are out from…

Orange Expands BBC World Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 15 Nov 2006 08:48 AM PST

C21 Media: Mobile operator Orange has expanded its deal with the BBC (where BBC World had been available to Orange subscribers in France). “The new deal makes BBC World the…

Google Can’t Catch a Break in Europe; Faces Suit from French Publishers’ Group - 0 Comments
Posted By Jonathan Berr - Thu 02 Nov 2006 09:21 AM PST

Google can’t catch a break in European courts. An organization of French publishers has filed suit against Google Book search, claiming that violates copyright law, making the same arguments that…

Video Search Engine Flurl.com Sells Majority Stake To MySpace Co-Founder - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 26 Oct 2006 11:06 PM PST

MySpace co-founder Brad Greenspan (the one really angry about the sale of MySpace to News Corp, despite him earnings millions) has acquired majority stake in Belgium-based video search site Flurl.com...financial…

After Google, Belgians Go After MSN - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 16 Oct 2006 10:12 PM PST

A month after a Belgian court rules in favor of local newspaper companies against Google, Infoworld reports that MSN is in talks with the newspaper publishers group Copiepresse over the…

Apple Faces Scandinavian Allegations; Google Seethes Over Belgian Ruling - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Tue 26 Sep 2006 10:11 AM PST

Representatives from four Scandinavian countries have been meeting with Apple over what is claimed to be iTunes’ violation of customer protection laws. Officials from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland’s government…

Belgian Newspapers Win, But Actually Lose, Against Google - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Mon 18 Sep 2006 07:11 AM PST

It’s been a while since we had one of those tedious Google vs. King Canute newspapers stories, but the latest installment is from Belgium where a court has ruled in…

Mobile Gaming Company Javaground Gets Funding From Esmertec - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Feb 2006 07:03 PM PST

Javaground, a mobile gaming company based in Laguna Hills, CA, has received undisclosed amount of funding from Esmertec, a Swiss developer of mobile software. Javaground is a tool provider for…

Belgium Gets 3G, Music - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 14 Nov 2005 02:12 PM PST

Proximus has signed up Jamba (the European version of Jamster) to provide customers with premium music downloads on its Vodafone Live multimedia portal in Belgium… I’m not sure what the…