Harmony Media Group, a new UK-based holding company for two digital content distributors, has raised a first round funding of $4.4 million from Beringea, according to GrowthBusiness.  Harmony serves as…

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Glowria, a European Netflix clone, has raised $8.3 million, NetEco reports (in French). (via Alarm Clock Euro.) The company received the investment from existing investors Seventure (Groupe Natixis), Crédit Agricole…

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In UK, ITV is to begin offering movies from its ITV DVD and Rank Film subsidiaries for sale via British Internet Broadcasting Company (BIBC) online retail sites. Some 500 hours…

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Vivendi plans to launch a multimedia website which will offer music, video, film and games content both from Vivendi and partners, reports Forbes quoting French daily Les Echos. It’s described…

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We missed this one last week: UK-based digital distribution company Arts Alliance Media has made a U.S. acquisition: it has bought New York-based Hart Sharp Video, whose biggest hit of…

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Italian broadband provider Tiscali has partnered with movie distributor Arts Alliance Media to launch Movies Now, a UK internet-based VOD service that includes over 500 titles. Users can download or…

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A deal with NBCU’s Universal Pictures International Entertainment and NBCU International Television Distribution gives Deutsche Telekom’s T-com “first” status when it comes to digital download-to-own major films in Germany. As…

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One of the two competing hi-def DVD standards is finding more favor with European movie distributors than the other, FT reports. Some 35 titles are available in Toshiba’s HD-DVD format…

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Lovefilm, a UK-based, online DVD rental service, is working with Sony and another unnamed movie studio on allowing consumers to download and burn the studios’ titles starting next month, among…

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The MySpace MovieMashup launching this week in London should garner some UK attention for the social networking site. MySpace is partnering with Film 4 and Vertigo Films to produce a…

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This is a bit of a surprise, considering the company was planning on a $85 million IPO which never happened: Opus Media, the UK-based online video technology and services firm…

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This is an interesting intermediate idea, though not sure if you can build a company based on this: Sofatronic, a Hamburg, Germany-based developer of casual games that can be played…

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Ah, to be a telco these days...the existential angst. France Telecom, one of the biggest telecom groups, has created a unit to invest in co-production and acquire acquisition rights for…

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Sony Pictures Television has extended its partnership with Arts Alliance Media to launch a download-to-own deal for 40 movies through LOVEFiLM and AOL in the UK this week. This follows…

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Good news for Microsoft and Nintendo - and bad news for kids with Sony’s PS3 on their Christmas lists. The UK/Europe launch is delayed again, this time until March 2007…

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So BT is hoping that its upcoming IPTV (and online) service Vision will be able to convert all those disillusioned Freeview customers. BT’s CEO of TV services Dan Marks says…

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BT is to launch a broadband movie download-to-own service in UK...it will launch on Monday under the BT Vision brand, will offer initially about 150 films through a deal with…

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Some UK-specific news: -- Universal teams with Wippit for movie download service: Universal Pictures UK has teamed up with film/music download service Wippit for a download-to-own movie service. The service…

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So says this report..which makes Channel 4 the first commercial brodcaster in UK to do so (BBC does simulcast of some of its news shows). Registered UK users would be…

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We mentioned about this two days ago, and now the European Film Online Charter, developed by European Commission and film and content industry,ISPs and of telecom operators from the EU…

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Promise..the last bit of EU news for today. EU media commissioner Viviane Reding will be at the ongoing Cannes film festival to unveil a charter on downloading that the European…

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Criteo, a French online video recommendation service, has raised about $3.7 million in seed capital from Paris-based investors, AGF Private Equity and ELAIA.  Criteo is being sold as a white…

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The Warner Bros.-backed online movie download service in Germany, In2Movies, has launched in beta. It is a JV between Warner Brothers Entertainment GmbH and technical/P2P service provider Arvato Mobile, a…

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Two of the biggest online DVD (and increasingly download) rentals firms in UK, Lovefilm and Video Island, are to merge to create what they claim will be a subscriber base…

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Starting April 10, AOL’s UK web site will sell Universal Pictures’ downloads in a combo package with the movie’s DVD. DVD rental firm Lovefilm, which operates AOL’s UK movie service,…

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