Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social networking in the U.S., France, India, Italy and the U.K. to…

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Aegis Group has bought German online marketing consultancy rmsarcar.com, its second international digital acquisition in two weeks. Financial terms of the UK media buying firm’s purchase of rmsarcar were not…

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German media giant Bertelsmann saw year-on-year revenue fall 3.9 percent to 4.2 billion euros in the first quarter of 2008 - due to negative foreign exchange effects, the strong euro…

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French media giant Lagardere reported earnings for the three months ending 31 March 2008 on Tuesday. Consolidated revenues for the entire group were down 4 percent to 1.8 billion euros…

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French advertising holding company Havas has increased its 40 percent stake in London ad shop Archibald Ingall Stretton as the two prepare a combined International network offering digital and creative…

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Although WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer to acquire audience researcher Taylor Nelson Sofres was rejected over the the weekend, the UK ad holding firm is still pressing the…

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Audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres has rejected WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer as “opportunistic” and undervaluing the company, telegraph.co.uk reported. TNS has been trying to merge with…

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UK regulator PhonepayPlus has announced a review into the 350 million pound (US$691.6 million) a year premium-rate industry, after complaints soared by 40 percent in the first quarter of 2007.…

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Professional social network LinkedIn is getting serious about expanding outside the US to help grow its share of the social net market. In January, after months of speculation that the…

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WPP may join the growing number of UK businesses planning to relocate to Ireland to lower their tax bill. Accountancy Age reports that the advertising giant’s chief Sir Martin Sorrell…

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Not that this is a surprise: Atari’s biggest shareholder Infogrames, the French video games company, has bought the struggling company after its non-binding offer earlier in March. The cost for…

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B2B publisher and event organiser United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) is quitting the UK for Ireland in a move designed to reduce its tax burden. As FT.com notes, UBM…

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Following a disastrous foray into the German mail delivery business, Europe’s largest newspaper publisher Axel Springer said Thursday that it was now refocusing its attention on its internet and foreign…

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It’s the Wikipedia you’ll need Tipp-ex and a pen to edit. German publisher Bertelsmann says it will publish the first ever book based on entries from the online encyclopedia. Due…

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-- French IPTV: France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is the largest IPTV operator in the world, with 1.1 million subscribers, says a new report from Telecommunications Management Group (TMG). Globally, there…

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Latest to launch a movie download store - and the latest amongst the supermarkets to try their hand - is France’s Carrefour. The world’s second largest retail group after Wal-Mart…

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Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…

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As was first reported last December, French TV network TF1 has filed suit against YouTube alleging copyright infringement. French newspaper Les Echos, via Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY), said the network was…

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The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-trust grounds. The EC began a routine investigation in…

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Joseph at our sister site paidContent.org reports Cuill, a start-up promising “a new approach to search”, has raised a big $25 million second round led by Madrone Capital Partners. Still…

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The Pirate Bay‘s capacity to poke and rile the music business for laughs knows no bounds. This time, the BitTorrent index is seeking compensation from the IFPI for traffic lost…

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Earlier this month, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). announced it was upping its 22.7 percent stake in Munich-based subscription TV network Premiere. Reports estimated that News Corp. was looking to hold…

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Arizona-based digital marketing shop iCrossing is acquiring another European agency - Germany’s 3GNet - for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 1999 and with clients including Audible (NSDQ: ADBL), eBay (NSDQ:…

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Paris-based IM add-on maker Iminent has raised a 2.5 million euro (£2 million) second round of funding to aide international expansion. Iminent’s IMBooster app for Windows adds emoticons, big…

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WiFi-sharing community Fon has raised a $9.5 million third round of funding to take the service to Russia and upgrade its product offering. Spain-based Fon, launched in February 2006, lets…

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