More on that search R&D centre Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in June told advertisers it would build in Europe… CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured in London yesterday) fronted the launch in Paris…

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At a press conference this morning, T-Mobile said the first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android phone called the G1 will be available in the United Kingdom beginning in November, and across…

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The proposed ad partnership between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to gather opposition… The latest is the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which is pushing the European…

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-- NBC: BT (NYSE: BT) Vision has struck a deal to make NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) movies available for hi-definition VOD on the IPTV platform. The service is available to…

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We pretty much knew the European Commission would be looking over Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) planned deal to run ads from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) when the portal finally informed the continent’s…

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Given ITV’s (LSE: ITV) present perilous state, executive chairman Michael Grade is hardly in a strong position when it comes to lambasting other media operators who are robbing him of…

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-- Tesco MP3: Tesco Digital, the supermarket’s digital media store, has got Warner Music UK’s agreement to sell its repertoire in the MP3 format. The agreement includes new “premium album…

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The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) this morning asked the US Department of Justice, the European Commission and the Competition Bureau of Canada to block the deal under which Google…

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Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) new Chrome web browser is already gaining respectable traction, just a week after its unveiling. Telegraph.co.uk communities editor Shane Richmond reports 1.8 percent of all visits to…

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It’s a tale of two Baidus - and an excellent attempt at domain name profiteering. Baidu Europe, a five-year-old, eight-person Dutch internet consultancy, wants to sell both the trademark and…

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YouTube has switched on a new feature that lets content owners offer text subtitles along with their videos. The Captions feature lets producers add subtitles, synchronised with video, in over…

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Independent TV and film producers have told the Competition Commission’s investigation in to the proposed Kangaroo VOD service that the JV will mean ”a significant dampening of this competition in…

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We’ve definitely noticed increased interest in the Russian internet market, marked notably by Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) acquisition of a contextual ad firm from Rambler and the planned IPO of Yandex,…

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Uri Geller’s Explorologist company has agreed to license a controversial YouTube video via Creative Commons, after money changed hands in a court case about the disputed clip. The case began…

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-- AOL: AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A advertising Hydra, which recently appointed Brendon Condon as London-based international head, has made a series of UK appointments. Just as AOL UK’s MD Michael…

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-- Johnston: Scotsman publisher Johnston Press is the latest to start selling overseas ads on its UK news sites. Mail Online, Guardian.co.uk, Times Online and Telegraph.co.uk are all chasing ads…

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The UK should create a Council For Child Internet Safety that would monitor user-generated content sites for offensive material, according to a wide-ranging paper from the House Of Commons media…

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More copyright headaches for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and YouTube… Italy’s MediaSet says it is suing the video site for at least 500 million euros, claiming the standard complaints about illegal…

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Peter Barron, editor of the BBC’s flagship Newsnight current affairs show, is leaving to become Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) communications and policy head in north-west Europe, Guardian.co.uk reports. Four years trying…

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Four Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives may be standing trial over failing to adequately monitor third-party content posted to their Italian language site. Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in…

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Spain’s Telecinco TV channel has claimed victory in its legal case against YouTube. The formal result is not yet out but, citing “judicial sources”, Telecinco says a Madrid court granted…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made $774 million (£387.83 million) in the UK in the three months to June 30, its quarterly earnings show. That’s down from $803 million (£402 million) the…

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We have recently written about a flurry of Russian online deals, and this is among the bigger ones that have happened in the last year or so: Google has bought…

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Avril Lavigne is set to score a big pay day thanks to YouTube revenue. Nettwerk Management CEO Terry McBride told MusicTank’s Face To Face With The Millennials in London today:…

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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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