-- The Film Club: Another bunch of film distributors is setting up an online distributor. Terry Stone, Mike Watson and Anthony Nottage are working on The Film Lounge, an adult…

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Irish Times, which went subscription for its online site Ireland.com in 2003, is launching its free site this Monday...we reported on the planned changes earlier this month. The news site…

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Irish Times, which went subscription for its online site Ireland.com in 2003, is now ready to scrap the charges. It is also moving its news-related content to a new website…

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WPP may join the growing number of UK businesses planning to relocate to Ireland to lower their tax bill. Accountancy Age reports that the advertising giant’s chief Sir Martin Sorrell…

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B2B publisher and event organiser United Business Media (LSE: UBM) (UBM) is quitting the UK for Ireland in a move designed to reduce its tax burden. As FT.com notes, UBM…

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Joseph at our sister site paidContent.org reports Cuill, a start-up promising “a new approach to search”, has raised a big $25 million second round led by Madrone Capital Partners. Still…

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- Video metrics: Two years after it launched in the US, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is bringing its Video Metrix web video tracking rankings to the UK, France, Germany and Canada.…

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UK digital media delivery firm and iTunes rival 7digital has received $8.5 million (£4.25 million) in funding from Sutton Place Managers and Balderton Capital (formerly known as Benchmark Europe). The…

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- Telegraph OpenID: Considerably less significant than the same announcements from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Blogger last week, but nevertheless part of the growing trend, Telegraph.co.uk says it will, from…

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Irish ministers and development agencies are trying to tempt Facebook to the Emerald Isle, the Irish Times reports, claiming enterprise minister Micheál Martin met Facebook executives during an October trip…

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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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Well-financed P2P TV platform Babelgum is seeking a new chief technology officer after the departure of its second senior member in two months.  We have confirmed with Babelgum in Milan…

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Dublin-based Zamano has announced it has conditionally agreed to buy the entire issued share capital of mobile content company Red Circle for up to 24.4 million euros, reports FinFacts. The…

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Setanta Sports, the once-little Irish pay-TV operator with big ambitions, has attracted 130 million euros (£90 million) to help finance its continued build-up of UK soccer rights. The funds come…

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Irish telco Eircom is opening a 100,000 euro fund to back up to four Web 2.0 developers a year. It’s looking for ideas to be submitted in discovery, messaging, voice,…

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Ireland-based, Italian-funded P2P TV platform Babelgum is pressing on with cosying up to independent movie producers. After September’s launch with Spike Lee of its own film festival for indies, it’s…

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Babelgum, the Ireland-based, Italian-backed Joost rival, aims to open in the Chinese market early in 2008. BusinessWeek reports the online TV outfit, which also has offices in London and Nice,…

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Updated: Rafat adds: I am interviewing Scaglia on Monday morning, and will have more on Babelgum and his own views on online video. Ireland-based P2P TV network Babelgum has opened…

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Silvio Scaglia, the founder of Italian triple-play telecom firm FastWeb, and former CEO of Omnitel (now Vodafone Italy) is launching a new venture, an online video service called Babelgum. Scaglia…

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