Three parent Hutchison Whampoa is calling for roaming data charges to be lowered across Europe. It said it had reached a million mobile broadband subscribers across the continent but is…

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Two new government initiatives to crack down on rogue mobile phone services: Just days after the EU said it would force operators to lower SMS roaming charges, its consumer chief…

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Here it is: After months of threats and warnings, the European Commission announced today that it will end “roaming rip-offs” for text messages abroad after calls to the industry to…

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The European Commission is expected to announce tomorrow that it will propose legislation to cut the cost of sending and receiving text messages while roaming, according to the IHT. On…

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Though the European Commission last week told me Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) hadn’t flagged its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search partnership to its antitrust authority, when I asked Yahoo whether it would…

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Two European Parliament committees last night approved the so-called EU Telecoms Package, a wide-ranging set of housekeeping measures on telecoms regulation that will allow media regulators in EU states to…

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Throwing a small lifeline to newspapers coping with the twin pressures of digital investment and falling print revenue, European media commissioner Viviane Reding pledged: ”There should be no new advertising…

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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…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have elected not to seek the European Commission’s permission for their ad sharing deal - but that doesn’t mean the proposal won’t face…

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Regulation here we come. June 30th was the deadline for European operators to let the EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding know how much they were charging for roaming text messages…

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This has the potential to de-rail the rise of VOD TV as typified by personal video recorders. FT.com reports the European Commission is reclassifying pay-TV hard drive- or Ethernet-enabled set-top…

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Europe’s competition commissioner Neelie Kroes knows how to make Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) blood boil. She may have handed Bill Gates an honourary degree in her native Holland 12 years ago,…

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Hardware makers meet politicians and copyright societies in Brussels today to discuss introducing a Europe-wide levy on media devices, offsetting revenue apparently lost from personal copying. Since 2001, 22 of…

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New laws that came in to force on Bank Holiday Monday should give pause to marketers using blogs, social media and the web in general. The new Consumer Protection from…

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-- Ofcom: The media regulator is deregulating the wholesale broadband market for 70 percent of the UK, dropping a compulsion that BT (NYSE: BT) supplies its Datastream network access product…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has applied to Europe’s Court of First Instance to appeal part of the record 899 million euro antitrust fine it was handed in September and February -…

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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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This could put the cat amongst the pigeons. European Parliament members have voted in favour of outlawing the kind of ISP disconnection policy the French government introduced to fight illegal…

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Europe’s Article 29 Working Party on data privacy, which advises the European Commission executive, has concluded search engines should reduce the time for which they store users’ records to six…

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ISPs who agree to filter illegal music and video out of P2P or other networks would have to tell subscribers about the practice - and let them turn the feature…

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The European Commission just confirmed earlier reports it will begin an in-depth inquiry in to Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) proposed $8.1 billion acquisition of GPS mapping provider Navteq. It was always…

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The European Commission has cleared France’s 99 million euro state aid for Quaero, a Euro-centric multimedia search index being built by a consortium of electronics and 22 other companies. Former…

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Update 1: Also, the company has officially announced: the acquisition of DoubleClick is now complete, after EC approved it (see below). Update 2: From Google’s own blog: “Because we have…

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The European Union launched an enquiry on Monday to examine whether U.S. laws aimed at foreign online gambling firms break international trade rules. European online gambling companies such as PartyGaming…

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European Commission regulators are prepared to give Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of online advertising firm DoubleClick the go-ahead next week, FT reported, citing an unidentified source. The commission had recently…

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