Dutch newspaper and magazine group Telegraaf Media Groep, which has the market-leading De Telegraaf title, has bought a 12 percent stake in German pay-TV group ProSiebenSat.1 (FRA: PSM) for €377…

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Netherlands-headquarted Spill Group, an online game destination of dozens of localized portals, announced today that it has acquired Onrpg.com, a multiplayer gaming portal and community website. Financial terms of the…

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MoMac, a Dutch provider of mobile content technology, has acquired French mobile content publishing technology company Messagio for an undisclosed amount. Momac is using the purchase to extend its reach…

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Interactive TV concept developer 2waytraffic has agreed to a £1.08-per-share cash officer from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Entertainment’s 2JS Productions unit. SPE said t’s an initial cash consideration of £114.3…

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In yet another brutally embarrassing earnings report, one-time super portal Lycos Europe’s annual 2007 losses quadrupled from 4.6 million euros (£3.4 million) to 18.2 million euros (£13.7 million) on an…

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- BBC P2P: A BBC R&D team is working with broadcasters, universities and developers across Europe on P2P Next, a continent-wide initiative to build a legal, cross-platform P2P system based…

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Amsterdam-based eBuddy, an online IM startup, has raised a €6.5 million second round led by Prime Technology Ventures, reports GigaOM. The company previously raised €4.9 million from Lowland Capital Partners…

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Information publisher Reed Elsevier’s (NYSE: RUK) business unit forecasts it will have grown online revenue 25 to 30 percent over 2007, and aims to double the existing numbers to $1…

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Amsterdam-based Libersy, the provider of a online appointments platform, has raised €1.2 Million from Shamrock Ventures, Value Creation & Company, Reof and Technofonds Flevoland, reports TechCrunch. Previously, the company had…

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Endemol, the Dutch reality TV and game show producer, has been handed an unspecified amount of cash by its parent company intended drive acquisitions in Russia, the United States and…

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Lycos Europe has sold its eight percent stake in France’s Best Of Media to Alter Finance Capital for 1.7 million euros (£1.2 million). Best Of Media is the publisher behind…

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Looking at Lycos Europe through the prism of its unaudited trading update for the first nine months of the year, you wouldn’t think we’re in the middle of an online…

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British and Dutch police have apparently shut down a private Bit Torrent tracker the music industry says was the world’s biggest online network of illegal pre-release albums. Membership of OiNK…

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Joost will eventually reach the living room, isn’t planning a mobile launch but can expect more attention from one of its founding fathers. In Cannes for the Mipcom TV programming…

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As broadcasters and their participation TV partners continue to brace themselves for further fines and PR backlash related to call-in scandals, Eckoh and 2waytraffic, two of the links in that…

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After pioneering mobile-TV convergence with a range of participatory TV formats including Big Brother, Endemol chief creative officer Peter Bazalgette is quitting the company, possibly to focus on further digital…

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- iRex: Dutch electronic reader manufacturer iRex Technologies has secured a EUR 6 million investment. The round was led by Main Capital Partners and joined by existing shareholders ABN AMRO…

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Ericsson and TV producer Endemol (AMS:EML) have partnered to distribute mobile phone technology allowing viewers to participate in TV shows through 3G video. Me-On-TV, a platform developed by the Swedish…

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