Skinkers, which makes branded desktop news readers for syndicated content and has a P2P TV offering, has received $16 million (£8 million) in second-round funding from Acacia Capital, Spark Ventures…

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From our sister site mocoNews: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today held a confab at its research HQ in Finland… -- Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) deal: Nokia’s been working on a program with…

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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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A group of German book publishers is behind Libreka.de, a new book search engine intended to be an alternative Google’s own book scan and search program. According to Deutsche Welle,…

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Fulham, London-based Refresh Mobile, which last gave us Mobizines - mini, mobile versions of brand-name magazines - has launched its latest mobile content play, but this time is dispensing with…

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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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Joost plans to begin testing add test live TV shows alongside its on-demand content in the first quarter of 2008. In an interview with paidContent:UK in Cannes, content strategy and…

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Blinkx, the online video search engine that has as many users as the number of press releases the company has issued since its inception (a joke...calm down), has launched a…

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Some major executive turnover is afoot at Ireland-based, Italian-backed online video startup Babelgum: Erik Lumer, one of the co-founders of the startup, has left the company to become the CEO…

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- Tioti Launch: Tape It Off The Internet (Tioti), a TV-centric web community where members post links to shows across a range of download and sharing media, has finally launched…

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Cambridge, UK-based miniature projector company Light Blue Optics has raised 12.7 million pounds (US$26 million) in funding, with the round led by 3i of the UK, Earlybird Venture Capital of…

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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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The music industry has taken legal action to shut down seven German servers powering the eDonkey P2P file-sharing network. In a rather triumphalist emailed press release, the London-based International Federation…

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Some industry types are starting to use military lexicon to describe what they see as the looming possibility internet service providers will force broadcasters to cough up cash for online…

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-- More controversy may be swirling around the BBC’s iPlayer. Today Ofcom questioned whether the cost of offering HDTV programming over the Internet-based TV service could outweigh the public value…

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- AOL (NYSE: TWX) UK: The portal business has promoted interactive marketing VP Michael Steckler to the managing director position - and it will be hoping to bring stability to…

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From our sister site MocoNews (see full post), a glut of coverage as the iPhone heads to these shores… -- UK iPhone: O2 (TEF.MC) has tied up a UK iPhone…

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10 Downing Street has responded to the 16,071 people who signed an online petition calling on the BBC to make its iPlayer TV catch-up software platform. Citizens had used the…

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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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GCap (LON:GCAP) has become a member of the UK Podcasters Association, an umbrella body advocating podcasters’ rights, in a sign Britain’s largest commercial radio operator is getting more serious about…

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The European Commission has adopted a proposal to offer a Europe-wide license for mobile satellite services, so that companies keen to offer the services don’t have to get licenses in…

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Enterprise and media (including mobile) search firm Fast Search & Transfer (based in Norway) is laying off about 148 employees after an internal restructuring. Its Q2 saw a net loss…

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Researchers from the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh have launched an “invisible art” project in Edinburgh using mobile phones to access digital content related to physical buildings…

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One of the big issues that came out of the premium-rate participation TV scandal that swept the UK was that no-one seemed to feel responsible for the services. The UK…

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While Seatwave and Viagogo look to emulate the U.S.’s StubHub for the European online secondary gig tickets marketplace, Ticket-Text is aiming to take ticketing mobile. The Irish start-up, which claims…

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