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Expedia Buying European Hotels Site Venere - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 06:05 AM PST

Expedia is following its acquisition of a majority of India’s TravelGuru site by buying Venere.com, an Italy-based travel site listing about 29,000 hotels in Europe and the US, for an…

Italian Social Media’s Dada Buying Music Box TV Channel - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 09:54 AM PST

You’re reading it here first... Italian social media entertainment operator Dada has bought a 10 percent stake in the owner of interactive on-demand TV channel Music Box for €750,000, as…

Property Search’s Nestoria Makes Hay In Spanish, Italian Markets - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 06:17 AM PST

As the UK’s housing market goes in to reverse, property search startup Nestoria is looking overseas for growth. Founded by former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) execs Javier Etxebeste and Ed Freyfogle…

Italian Blog Net Blogo.it Sells Majority To Community Operator Dada - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 01:13 AM PST

Italian online entertainment publisher Dada has bought another 40 percent of blog network Blogo.it‘s owner E-box for €1.6 million, taking its stake up to 70 percent. Blogo.it is Italy’s most…

Industry Moves: James Murdoch New President Of Sky Italia - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 26 Jun 2008 07:02 AM PST

More official powers for News Corp (NYSE: NWS) scion James Murdoch… after gaining hold of operations in Europe and Asia last December, he has been named the president of Sky…

Broadband Content Bits: iTunes Movies, Disney.fr Reboot, Music Kiosks - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 May 2008 03:57 AM PST

-- iTunes: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will launch its iTunes Movie Rentals service in the UK some time soon but nobody knows when. That’s the gist of this Times Online report,…

Mobile Entertainment Forum Launches Initiative To Spur Mobile Social Networking - 3 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 01:37 PM PST

Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social networking in the U.S., France, India, Italy and the U.K. to…

Broadband Content Bits: Five News/MySpace; DT’s IPTV/Web; Telecom Italia Moves; Norway Gets Voom HD - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 10 Mar 2008 08:32 AM PST

- Five News: In a rare online move, the fifth channel’s news show is to be carried on MySpace TV. NMA said a daily bulletin will be “co-branded” so it…

Tiscali Expects To Be Snapped Up Within Two Years - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Jan 2008 04:19 AM PST

Tiscali’s CEO expects to sell the business to bigger rivals within two years. Tommaso Pompei told FT.com he saw few acquisition targets for the company so it’s more likely Tiscali…

Elsevier Buys Italian Online Health Info Service Edra - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jan 2008 01:35 PM PST

Elsevier, the biggest publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and part of Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) Group, has bought out Edra, an Italian online healthcare information company with…

Babelgum’s Indie Film Grab Continues - It’s Screening Encounters Fest Entries - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 07 Nov 2007 07:05 AM PST

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…

Deutsche Telekom Amongst Tiscali Contenders; Offloads Media Division; Closes In On Three: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 07 Nov 2007 03:56 AM PST

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…

Broadband Content Bits: Fastweb; BBC on PS3; ABCe Figures - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Fri 26 Oct 2007 02:06 AM PST

-- One more IPTV player is looking to add more social media elements to its service. Italy’s Fastweb is currently trialling a recommendation service to drive more content usage. It…

Buongiorno Buys Argentinian By-Cycle For $5.5 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 24 Oct 2007 10:37 PM PST

Italian mobile entertainment giant Buongiorno has acquired Argentinian company By-Cycle for $5.5 million in cash. By-Cycle operates in Argentina, Uruguay and Peru, and offers both mobile marketing services and content…

AOL Embarks On 18-Month European Ad Grab, Starting In Italy - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 13 Sep 2007 06:37 AM PST

AOL has begun an 18-month European expansion programme to solidify its transition to advertising-supported content, with the launch today of AOL.it, an Italian portal. The £370 million sale of AOL…

Earnings: Tiscali H1 Revenues Up 24 Percent On Broadband Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 13 Sep 2007 05:04 AM PST

Tiscali (BIT:TIS) today reported H1 revenues of 393.1 million euros (£269.2 million), a 24 percent increase on the same period a year ago. It said growth was largely driven by…

UPDATED: Broadband Content Bits: Telegraph.co.uk TV, Neuf’s Media Centre, ITV.com VOD Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 05 Sep 2007 03:40 AM PST

- Telegraph.co.uk: The Telegraph’s website has launched Telegraph TV News Now, an interesting extension of its relationship with ITN that intercuts the TV news producer’s video round-ups with pieces-to-camera from…

Babelgum Plans China Launch, Amends Online Film Festival Rules - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 05 Sep 2007 02:46 AM PST

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,…

Sony Unveils PS3 Digital TV Tuner/PVR; Works With PSP Handheld - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 23 Aug 2007 03:53 AM PST

Sony will release a digital terrestrial TV tuner and PVR for the Playstation 3 in Europe early in 2008, SCEE announced at the Leipzeig Games Conference. PlayTV will combine two…

Tiscali To Acquire Pipex’s Broadband Business For $420 Million - Confirmed - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 13 Jul 2007 04:32 AM PST

Updated: The buyout was confirmed. Tiscali will also get Pipex’s 480,000 voice customers. Tiscali expects “significant synergies and efficiencies” of around £150 ($300) million. The company, which in March boasted…

Corrected: Euro Soccer Leagues Encourages Members To Join YouTube Suit; Objects To Localized Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 28 Jun 2007 05:00 AM PST

Correction: The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) announced its support of the would-be class action against YouTube and Google; it did not join the suit but encouraged its…

Berlusconi/De Mol Consortium Reels In Remaining Endemol Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Jun 2007 07:51 AM PST

The consortium which last month acquired 75 percent of European TV producer Endemol from Telefonica for EUR 3.6 billion is now buying up the remaining stake. Endemol co-founder John de…

YouTube Launches Nine Country Sites; UK, Brazil, Japan Included - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Jun 2007 02:22 AM PST

At a Paris press conference, YouTube unveiled localized versions for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Holland, Poland, Spain and the UK (Germany is missing). Initially, the sites get translated homepages,…

Joost Rival Babelgum Opens Doors To P2P TV Viewers - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 08 Jun 2007 06:09 AM PST

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…

European Newspapers ‘Optimistic’ About Print And Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 10 Apr 2007 06:18 AM PST

A wide-ranging AP article surveying the European newspaper landscape finds editors “optimistic” about both the web and the survival of print. The gist: while US newspapers self-flagellate in pursuit of…