After buying up Deutsche Telekom’s (NYSE: DT) 37 percent stake in its German newspaper Bild’s website last month, Axel Springer group has stripped the “T-Online” reference from what had until…

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German family tree-centric social net Verwandt has scored second-round of an undisclosed amount Hasso Plattner Ventures (HPV) of Potsdam. After initially launching with a look resembling genealogy heavywight Geni, Verwandt…

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- OhMyNews targets Europe: South Korean citizen journalism site OhMyNews is to launch a European version. Founder Oh Yeon Ho: “I hope I can keep introducing our model to other…

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Mediapeers, a German marketplace for audiovisual content, has taken an unspecified first round from T-Online Venture Fund, the VC arm of Deutsche Telekom, (NYSE: DT) reports TelcomPaper (sub req’d). The…

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Europe’s largest media company Bertelsmann plans to invest up to seven billion euros (£5 billion) in the internet, the services industry and the education sector as part of a wider…

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British consumers are getting some of the best deals for broadband, mobile and television services in Europe, thanks to cheap bundled services, according to an exhaustive report from Ofcom, looking…

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We reported on some of the unconfirmed reports coming out in October, and now has been officially announced: Axel Springer, one of the biggest media companies in Germany/Europe, is buying…

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German social network start-up Kaioo hopes to become an online refuge for users seeking a haven from social networks such as MySpace and Facebook, where, as the IHT reports, “advertising…

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The EU’s controversial decision to back DVB-H technology as the standard for mobile TV broadcasts in all member countries is under attack from Germany, Britain and the Netherlands, reports the…

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T-Mobile has announced it will now start selling iPhones with out a contract, for 999 euros (£713), as opposed to 399 euros (£285) with a two-year contract. Any customer can…

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Vodafone Germany has succeeded in getting a restraining order against T-Mobile prohibiting the carrier from selling the iPhone in Germany, reports Dow Jones. “Specifically, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is questioning the…

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Vivendi, (EPA: VIV) which announced its strangely-named portal last week, has now announced that Zaoza will launch in January, and the site will be a provider of music, ringtones, games…

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Video compression firm DivX (NSDQ: DIVX) has acquired MainConcept AG for $22 million (£10.64 million) in cash and stock ($16.2 million or £7.83 million in cash and rest in stock)…

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Weblin, the Hamburg, Germany-based avatar platform firm, has received an undisclosed amount of strategic funding from Deutsche Telekom’s T-Online Venture Fund. The year-old start-up allows its users to create avatars…

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Business social network Xing will carry advertising on its platform before the end of the year. The German company hopes to use the revenues generated from the ads to fund…

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Today’s the day the iPhone hits Europe. Analysts have slammed the phone, saying the “toy” might be okay for the US but isn’t as good as other phones already available…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has finally struck an agreement with Germany’s royalties collection agency for performed and reproduced music to launch YouTube in the country. Germany was not included in July’s…

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Could Tiscali be bought? The broadband, IPTV and telephony provider is “being courted by about 10 potential buyers, four of which have made ‘concrete’ moves”, reports newspaper MF in its…

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Germans will get bragging rights to owning the iPhone before UK customers this Friday. The Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) store at Schildergasse in Cologne will open at 12.01am CET (1.01am…

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Axel Springer, one of the biggest media companies in Germany/Europe, is planning to buy Deutsche Telekom’s (NYSE: DT) 37 percent stake in Bild.T-Online that it does not own yet, reports…

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Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) still wants to buy the rights for online live-broadcasting matches of German soccer league DFL, reports AFX. Earlier this week DFL awarded German media business man…

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-- Online video outfit Joost has added ITN and Major League Baseball to its programming line-up. The ITN service will cover news in the UK and rest of the world,…

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eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has acquired ViA-Online GmbH, the German auction management software developer that operates Afterbuy.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The addition of Afterbuy gives eBay the…

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Following on from yesterday’s post on AOL (NYSE: TWX) negotiating 13 redundancies in the UK, more numbers are trickling in today: the number of layoffs in the UK is closer…

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French financial news site Boursorama (EPA:BRS) is acquiring a 77.4 percent stake in leading German online finance news publisher onVista (FRA:ONV) in a deal valued at EUR 138 million (£96.7…

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