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France ‘Inviting’ Operators To Cut SMS Prices - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 17 Jul 2008 12:44 PM PST

Record high inflation is apparently taking its toll on the purchasing power of French citizens, so what better way for the government to tackle the problem than to target the…

Glam Media Uber Alles: Expanding Into Germany, Buying Munich’s Codex Media - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 17 Jul 2008 05:30 AM PST

Glam Media is opening a German site with help from its backer Burda Cross Media. Glam is also getting some extra assistance from its latest acquisition, Munich-based digital marketing firm…

Viadeo Buys ICTnet To Fight Xing On Business Networking - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Jul 2008 02:04 AM PST

LinkedIn clone Viadeo has acquired Spain’s ICTnet, a business-oriented community site listing 55 such communities. Viadeo’s Spain country manager Pedro Sanchez Pernia wrote the deal gives it 300,000 users in…

New Launches: The Film Club, MuZu TV Aim For Movie, Music Crowds - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 11:06 AM PST

-- The Film Club: Another bunch of film distributors is setting up an online distributor. Terry Stone, Mike Watson and Anthony Nottage are working on The Film Lounge, an adult…

Flights Searcher Swoodoo Gets Funds, Tie-Ups From Deutsche Telekom - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 06:54 AM PST

Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) is investing two million euros in Swoodoo, a German flights search and booking site, via its T-Online Ventures arm, and aims to integrate it with some…

Expedia Buying European Hotels Site Venere - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 06:05 AM PST

Expedia is following its acquisition of a majority of India’s TravelGuru site by buying Venere.com, an Italy-based travel site listing about 29,000 hotels in Europe and the US, for an…

EU Vows To End SMS Roaming Rip-Offs - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 15 Jul 2008 05:43 AM PST

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…

MediaGuardian 100 Hits & Misses: Google Trio Trade, Ballmer’s Unexplained Entry - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Jul 2008 09:35 AM PST

Yet another year in which they’ve overlooked the I Like Turtles kid; here are the digital highlights (or perhaps lowlights) of the annual MediaGuardian 100 - a list of the…

Round-Up: Music Trade News, Joost Japan, Aka-Aki Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Jul 2008 12:01 AM PST

-- Music Trade News: ToyNews and CasualGaming.biz publisher Intent Media has bought Music Trade News from from publisher MB Media, and will merge it with its own Musical Instruments Professional…

Swedish Video Ad Overlayer VideoPlaza Gets £335,300 Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Jul 2008 03:39 AM PST

Online video advertising startup VideoPlaza has received a €420,000 seed investment from Creandum plus angels Henrik Torstensson and Magnus Hultman to launch outside of its native Sweden. Sweden is seeing…

Italian Social Media’s Dada Buying Music Box TV Channel - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 09:54 AM PST

You’re reading it here first... Italian social media entertainment operator Dada has bought a 10 percent stake in the owner of interactive on-demand TV channel Music Box for €750,000, as…

CareerBuilder Buys French Job Site Lesjeudis - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Jul 2008 09:30 AM PST

CareerBuilder, the job site now owned collectively by Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Tribune Company, McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), has made an international acquisition: it has bought out Lesjeudis.com,…

WPP Makes Hostile Bid For TNS; GfK Considers Cash Bid In Response - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Jul 2008 05:42 AM PST

As expected, WPP Group is making a hostile bid for audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres, which has rejected the ad holding company’s three previous offers, Reuters reports. That in…

Luxury Shopping Community BuyVIP Funded By Bertelsmann - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 04:58 AM PST

Two-year-old German, Spanish and Italian luxury shopping community BuyVIP has received a further round of investment of an undisclosed size from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, 3i and Molins Capital Inversión.…

Property Search’s Nestoria Makes Hay In Spanish, Italian Markets - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 06:17 AM PST

As the UK’s housing market goes in to reverse, property search startup Nestoria is looking overseas for growth. Founded by former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) execs Javier Etxebeste and Ed Freyfogle…

Mobile Content Bits: iPhone 3G Demand, Iliad Buys Alice, Yahoo Serves 3 UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 05:07 AM PST

-- iPhone Demand In UK Overwhelms O2 Site: It’s four days before Apple’s iPhone goes on sale in the UK, and it looks like mobile operator O2, may not be…

Italian Blog Net Blogo.it Sells Majority To Community Operator Dada - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 01:13 AM PST

Italian online entertainment publisher Dada has bought another 40 percent of blog network Blogo.it‘s owner E-box for €1.6 million, taking its stake up to 70 percent. Blogo.it is Italy’s most…

Vivre La Revolution! French Indie News Site Rue89 Funded - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 12:51 AM PST

Rue89, a French alternative news site founded by disgruntled former Libération editors, has attracted a €1.1 million investment after selling a 24.9 percent stake to backers including Fotolog operator Hi-Media.…

Facebook Gains In France, Still Trails Far Behind Skyrock - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jul 2008 07:43 AM PST

All it takes, conventional wisdom goes, for the big US social networks to overcome the European upstarts is to start offering themselves in languages other than English. So what exactly…

M&A Watch: RBI Tempts With Loan, BSkyB Eyes Spain - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jul 2008 03:22 AM PST

-- Reed Business Information: Times says Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) will offer a loan to suitors for its on-the-block RBI B2B publisher - an indication the financial markets are not…

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…

EC Not Notified Of Yahoo-Google Ad Deal, Could Be Interested In Theory - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 08:31 AM PST

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…

WPP’s Wunderman Takes Majority Stake In French Mobile Marketer Kassius - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 01 Jul 2008 08:03 AM PST

WPP Group’s Wunderman, which has been reforming itself into a digital shop over the past year, has taken an unspecified, majority stake in Kassius, a Paris-based ad shop, games manufacturer…

Irish Times’ Free Site To Launch Monday - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 28 Jun 2008 05:15 PM PST

Irish Times, which went subscription for its online site Ireland.com in 2003, is launching its free site this Monday...we reported on the planned changes earlier this month. The news site…

News Corp. Mulls German and Spanish Pay-TV Purchases - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 27 Jun 2008 05:12 AM PST

Six years ago, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). lost some 2 billion euros in its investment into the German media and pay-TV company Kirch Group that eventually went bankrupt. But the…