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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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Online Real Estate Platform Drimki Raises Seed Money - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 26 Jun 2008 01:35 PM PST

Paris-based Drimki, an online real estate startup, has raised a seed round from Skype founders’ Ambient Sound Investments and alarm:clock euro reports it had raised funding from the co-founders of…

France To Tax Mobile, Internet And TV Revenues To Fund Public Broadcaster - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 25 Jun 2008 01:43 PM PST

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made good on his promise to shake up the country’s media industry. Starting on January 1 next year prime-time advertising on public television will be…

France Creates €15 Million Body To Enforce ‘Three-Strikes’ Music Policy - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 05:22 PM PST

That’s it. France will officially endorsed its three-strikes-and-your-out music piracy proposal and will introduce the measure in January. The measure, by which ISPs will agree to send three notices to…

French Broadcasters Walk Out Over Telecom Tax, A Summer Of Media Strikes? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 01:25 AM PST

Another day in French media, another strike. TV and radio workers walked out yesterday in protest as president Sarkozy’s plan to scrap public TV advertising and replace funds with a…

French Social Net Skyrock.com Seeking Sale To Telco, Talks Ongoing - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 10 Jun 2008 06:39 AM PST

Skyrock.com, one of the world’s largest social networks, is talking with several suitors about a sale, as it nears divestment from its partner radio station’s holding company, paidContent:UK has learned.…

LeGuide Price Comparison Site Buys DooYoo For UGC Reviews - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 05 Jun 2008 06:35 AM PST

French price comparison site LeGuide.com is buying roduct reviews destination DooYoo. The Berlin-based site also has price comparison (and includes Google (NSDQ: GOOG) ads), but it’s the reviews content that…

Minogue’s Ex Sues UK Newspapers In France: Web Took Breach Over Borders - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 May 2008 09:12 AM PST

Kylie Minogue’s ex just keeps on setting legal precedents. A French court has ordered two UK newspapers to pay fines for breaking privacy law in France - because they publish…

Industry Moves: CEO of Netvibes Steps Down; COO Steps Up - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 05:34 PM PST

Paris-based Netvibes, the much-hyped personalized homepage and widget company, has a new CEO: the charismatic founder Tariq Krim has stepped down, and COO Freddy Mini has been appointed as the…

Sarkozy: French Media Brought To ‘Economic Precipice’ By Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 28 May 2008 01:03 AM PST

French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans for media reform have met with opposition lately - so now he’s called for someone else to stage a national conference on the topic, to…

Dailymotion: No Sale Talks, Profitable Soon; 10M Euros This Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 19 May 2008 04:29 PM PST

The France-based online video site Dailymotion says it is not in talks with anyone for a sale, and the CEO Mark Zaleski also denied French media group Lagardere had ever…

Mobile Entertainment Forum Launches Initiative To Spur Mobile Social Networking - 3 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 01:37 PM PST

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…

Earnings: Lagardere Q1 Revenue Flat Overall, Digital Rises Sharply - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 07 May 2008 03:28 AM PST

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…

Havas Increases Stake In AIS, Launches International Digital Expansion - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 06 May 2008 10:01 AM PST

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…

Majority Sharehholder Infogrames Buys Rest of Atari For $11 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 08:40 PM PST

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…

Broadband Content Bits: EU Adoption; France Leads IPTV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 22 Apr 2008 12:53 AM PST

-- 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…

French Supermarket Giant Carrefour Plans Movie Download Store - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:41 AM PST

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…

Orange Trials Mobile E-Newspaper Reader With Le Monde Et Al - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:58 AM PST

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…

As Expected TF1 Sues YouTube; Seeking €100 Million In Damages - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Apr 2008 01:03 PM PST

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…

Vivendi Games/Activision Merger Nodded Through By EC - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:19 AM PST

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…