Channel - Germany | paidContent:UK

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Ad-Funded MVNO Blyk To Roll Out In Germany, Spain And Belgium - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 25 Jun 2008 02:28 AM PST

Ad-funded mobile MVNO Blyk will launch in Germany, Spain, and Belgium next year, the company said today. Reuters reports that British-Finnish start up is in “late stage” talks with operators…

Nokia Buys Location-Based Social Net Plazes - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 23 Jun 2008 12:20 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is continuing on its social media related acquisition trail: it has now bought out Zurich and Berlin-based social networking service Plazes. Terms of the deal were not…

BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 08:16 PM PST

In the permutations being worked out for the sale of BMG part of music label SonyBMG, Bertelsmann is looking to retain a stake in the European part of the business,…

Bertelsmann Wants $1.5 Billion For Sony BMG Stake, Talks ‘Advanced’: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 11 Jun 2008 02:08 AM PST

Finally, some meat on the bone of the “Bertelsmann wants to quit music” story. An unnamed source tells FT Deutschland the German media group wants to sell its 50 percent…

Despite Continued Rejection, TNS Opens Books To WPP - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 09 Jun 2008 04:58 AM PST

Audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres is pressing ahead with its merger with its German counterpart GfK, but it has nevertheless agreed to open its books to spurned suitor WPP…

NBCU’s Peacock And PE Firm GMT Take Euro 70 Million Majority Stake In German Gamer Bigpoint - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sun 08 Jun 2008 07:10 PM PST

Bigpoint, a German online games site, has sold to NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund and UK PE Firm GMT Communications Partners for Euro 70 million (about $110 million), according to FT...both…

Inspired By Glam Media, ProSiebenSat.1 Buys Women’s Portal Feeem Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 05 Jun 2008 12:42 PM PST

Looking to women’s fashion lifestyle network Glam Media in the U.S., German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired Munich-based Feeem Media, which is working on forming a women’s portal at Fem.com. The…

German Online Ad Sales Firm Ad2Net Sold To VC Firm For About Eur 3.2 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 31 May 2008 03:18 PM PST

German internet company OnVista has sold off its online ad sales subsidiary Ad2Net to local venture capital firm Media Ventures GmbH, for about Euro 1.6 million, plus a “media volume…

On The Continent: ForMyBand Launch, OpenBravo Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 30 May 2008 02:22 AM PST

-- ForMyBand: With Sellaband and Slicethepie pitching at the fun-funded unsigned music game in English, a German startup, Berlin-based ForMyBand, is trying the same thing over there. The new site…

Lycos Europe Courts AOL, Others; Asks For €200 Million: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 27 May 2008 12:38 AM PST

On-the-block Lycos Europe, touting itself for sale after failing to modernise the once-mighty portal, has approached AOL (NYSE: TWX), German web group United Internet and German online publishers Tomorrow Focus…

Aegis Adds To Isobar’s International Holdings With Acquisition Of Germany’s Rmsarcar - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 13 May 2008 09:34 AM PST

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…

Earnings: Bertelsmann Sales Dip On CD Decline, Profit Up After Napster Pay-Outs - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 08 May 2008 06:48 AM PST

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…

WPP Expected To Bid Higher For TNS; Sorrell: Rejection Was ‘Cavalier’; TNS: Offer Was ‘Derisory’ - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 06 May 2008 05:42 AM PST

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…

Audience Measurement Firm TNS Rejects WPP’s £1 Billion Offer - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 05 May 2008 05:45 AM PST

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…

Axel Springer Turns Focus To Web And Foreign Business - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 25 Apr 2008 03:30 AM PST

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…

Coming Soon: Wikipedia, The Book; Community Will Get Five Percent Of Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Apr 2008 12:59 AM PST

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…

As News Corp. Increases Its Stake In Premiere, Additional Board Seats Are Sought - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 08:46 PM PST

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…

iCrossing Buys German Digital Marketing House 3GNet - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Apr 2008 08:36 AM PST

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:…

Metaversum Raises Funds For Second Life Clone Twinity - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 01 Apr 2008 01:25 AM PST

Berlin-based Metaversum, operator of the beta 3D virtual world Twinity, has landed a “significant multi-million euro investment” from Balderton to take the environment global. Twinity’s take on 3D immersion isthat…