Spainish media conglomerate Prisa has received a number of preliminary offers for its satellite TV business Digital Plus. According to the FT.com, “a person familiar with the process” put the…

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While many other forecasters have been backtracking a bit on expectations for online ad spend growth this year, UK media shop Carat upped its forecast very slightly today. Back in…

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Warner Music continues to push beyond recorded music… the struggling label has taken a majority stake in Get In, a Spanish artist management firm, according to Reuters. Terms of the…

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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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LinkedIn clone Viadeo has acquired Spain’s ICTnet, a business-oriented community site listing 55 such communities. Viadeo’s Spain country manager Pedro Sanchez Pernia wrote the deal gives it 300,000 users in…

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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…

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-- Reed Business Information: Times says Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) will offer a loan to suitors for its on-the-block RBI B2B publisher - an indication the financial markets are not…

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Six years ago, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). lost some 2 billion euros in its investment into the German media and pay-TV company Kirch Group that eventually went bankrupt. But the…

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Ad-funded mobile MVNO Blyk will launch in Germany, Spain, and Belgium next year, the company said today. Reuters reports that British-Finnish start up is in “late stage” talks with operators…

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Joining the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and TF1 lawsuits, Spain’s Telecinco channel is the latest to sue YouTube, claiming intellectual property infringement. Mario Rodriguez, general secretary of the country’s number-one network,…

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-- ForMyBand: With Sellaband and Slicethepie pitching at the fun-funded unsigned music game in English, a German startup, Berlin-based ForMyBand, is trying the same thing over there. The new site…

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WiFi-sharing community Fon has raised a $9.5 million third round of funding to take the service to Russia and upgrade its product offering. Spain-based Fon, launched in February 2006, lets…

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San Francisco-based online magazine distributor Zinio is trying to build its European presence through a partnership with Barcelona-based media monitoring and press release distribution service Acceso. Zinio repackages printed magazines…

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EU countries do not have to reveal the names of internet file sharers in civil cases, the European Court of Justice said today, in their ruling between Spanish music rights…

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Nvivo.es, a Spanish social net designed to connect users with music gigs and fellow gig-goers, has scored a first round of funding to take its idea international. The amount is…

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Interactive TV advertiser YooMedia has purchased a 95.2 percent stake in Spanish internet TV provider Fresh Interactive Technologies. The UK-based YooMedia has also raised about £12.9 million ($26.1 million) from…

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Spanish speaking social network Wamba has received a 3 million Euro ($4.3 million) investment from Morten Lund, an early investor in Skype, reports Cotizalia (Spanish) (via Techcrunch). Lund will own…

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Spanish entertainment media company Filmax Entertainment will be launching an an online digital media portal by spring next year, reports Variety. The portal will host titles from Filmax’s 4,000 film…

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