Zmags, which makes software for publishing interactive content, has raised a $4.2 million second round from OpenView Venture Partners. The Denmark-based company has now raised a total of $7 million.…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) announced today that it is acquiring 100 percent of the privately-owned Danish mobile social network ZYB for 31.5 million euros (£25 million) in cash. The network operator…

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Zyb, the mobile phonebook service founded in Denmark, has bought out by Danish mobile social networking company, Danish Bluetooth-based mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum. Zyb itself…

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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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Domain gold rush 2.0 is starting to gain momentum. Danish internet outfit Balslev Media has bought Germany.com Casino.de name for 400,000 euros (£307,240) - a new German record. It plans…

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Swedish prosecutors have filed charges against Carl Lundstrom, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg - the brains behind torrent tracker The Pirate Bay - as expected, accusing the…

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UK media buying firm Aegis Group has acquired Finland’s White Sheep, a provider of web development and digital creative production services. Financial terms were not disclosed. White Sheep will be…

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Zoomio, a Danish software house which makes web-based tools to plan, build, execute and follow up on direct marketing campaigns, has received five million euros (£3.% million) from Denmark’s own…

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Adam Smith, futures director, WPP’s GroupM, opened a shared session with TNS Media at the UBS Global Media Conference in NYC today by saying he was tired of hearing that…

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With the recent flagging of Disney possibly joining the not-so-exclusive gang of failed MVNOs it’s not surprising that the general business model is once again coming under scrutiny in the…

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An analysis of view habits during the first six months of TDC’s mobile TV service reveals size does matter, Cellular News reports. Users prefer short TV snippets such as news…

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Danish media group TV2 has bought a stake in Copenhagen-based air fare comparison site Momondo. The size of the acquisition was not revealed but Momondo said would help it add…

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In an effort to build scale and take the number two position in the Danish broadband and mobile markets Norwegian operator Telenor has snapped up Tele2 Denmark from its Swedish…

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MTV Networks will favor made-for-mobile TV strands over simulcasts, will eschew short clips in favor of lengthier programming and could launch the MTV Europe Music Awards as a pay-for-view mobile…

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Swedish telco TeliaSonera has announced plans to buy Danish MVNO Debitel Danmark, according to Cellular News. “TeliaSonera has agreed to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares in debitel Danmark in…

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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…

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Zyb, an online phone backup service which I’ve just started using (to sync my online calendar with the new Nokia N93 that I have now), has received $1.2 million in…

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MTV will broadcast the Europe Music Awards (EMAs) to mobile phones throughout Europe for the first time, “simulcast live”. “The EMAs, taking place at 21.00CET in Copenhagen, will be available…

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NDS Group, majority-owned by News Corp., has bought ITE, a Danish game design, development and publishing company. NDS sells access software/DRM that controls programming for cable and satellite broadcasters, as…

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Understanding the perfect fit between mobile voting and trivia game schemes and TV programming, MTV Europe has launched a mobile quiz in the run up to its Europe Music Awards…

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Two European mobile media technology companies have merged: Atchik, a French mobile applications provider, has merged with Realtime, a Danish company specialising in mobile services and portals, to form the…

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Brightpoint Sweden and InProdicon have joined forces to launch a website (mediamilkshake)to sell polyphonic ringtones and mastertones as well as full-track downloads for “use on Windows Mobile devices and other…

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Coinclick, a major player in the Danish market for micropayments, has decided to close its operations. Coinclick was backed by Danske Bank (Denmark’s largest bank), PBS (which runs the market-leading…

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Some pin-pricking in the Yahoo’s chest thumping following its results last week: Yahoo will pull out of Scandinavia at the end of the month, closing its Nordic branch in Copenhagen…

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:Micropayments in Denmark have not taken off, despite major Danish news websites rallying behind a single micro-payment system named Valus. Since then, two other micro-payment systems—Coinclick and Ewire—have taken up…

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