France's Web Tax Policy Panned By EC Media Commissioner
European information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has virtually rubbished French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to ta… Read more »
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France's Sarkozy Proposes Tax On Internet, Mobile, TV Ad Revenues To Fund Public TV
By Dianne See Morrison
French President Nicolas Sarkozy would tax mobile phone operators and internet service providers as well as the advertising revenues of priv… Read more »
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Web Video Advertising Tax Rejected In France
By Dianne See Morrison
The French Senate has rejected a proposed law that would have levied a two percent tax on all French-based websites disseminating video cont… Read more »
Vivendi In Talks To Buy Remaining Part Of French Carrier Neuf Cegetel
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Vivendi (EPA: VIV) is in talks to acquire the remaining part of French telecom provider Neuf Cegetel it doesn’t own, according to a statemen… Read more »
TF1 To Sue Dailymotion, YouTube With
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UK Digital Penetration Driven By Cheapest Bundles: Ofcom
By Dianne See Morrison
British consumers are getting some of the best deals for broadband, mobile and television services in Europe, thanks to cheap bundled servic… Read more »
France’s Multimedia Radio Choice Ruffles Feathers
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EU Considers Aping France’s Disconnect-The-Pirates Law
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French Mobile Widget Start-Up Goojet Raises 2.3 Million Euros
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France Telecom Launches French Search Engine Le Moteur
By Rafat Ali
An interesting original effort from France Telecom: it has launched a new search engine called Le Moteur (The Engine), for French language u… Read more »
NetGem Buys Glowria For 18.9 Million Euros
By Dianne See Morrison
New TV hardware and software vendor NetGem has snapped up Glowria, the French DVD rental and VOD start-up backed by the French VC Read more »
French Radio Station Skyrock Founder Wants To Sell Online Op To Fund Buyback: Report
From our sister site paidContent:UK: French radio station Skyrock is looking to sell off its highly successful online operation, according t… Read more »
French Radio Station Skyrock Founder Wants To Sell Online Op To Fund Buyback: Report
French radio station Skyrock is looking to sell off its highly successful online operation, according to French magazine Challenge. The pop… Read more »
Vivendi Games Merging With Activision To Create New Pure-Play Video Game; Valued At $18.9 Billion
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) SA and Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) announced plans for a merger valued at $18.9 billion that would bring together Guitar Hero… Read more »
AFP Buys Stake In Cit-J Platform Scooplive, Offers To Media As White Label
Newswire Agence France Press (AFP) has bought a minority stake in Scooplive, a French citizen journalism portal that gives contributors comm… Read more »
Apple Marketing Whiz Talks iPod, iPhone, International Growth
Even icons need marketing. Greg Joswiak, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) marketing whiz working with the iPod and the iPhone, talked with Fortune’s J… Read more »
French Audience Researcher Médiamétrie Invests £25 Million To Expand Tracking; Will Go Portable
By David Kaplan
French audience survey company Médiamétrie is entering the race to capture data tracking consumers’ complete media usage habits. In early… Read more »
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France To Disconnect Online Pirates; DRM Restrictions Might Go
From our sister site paidContent:UK: If US digital liberties campaigners think they’ve got it bad with an RIAA so active in lobbying digital… Read more »
France To Disconnect Online Pirates; DRM Restrictions Might Go
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Vivendi’s Portal Zaoza To Launch Jan: France, Then UK and Germany
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Vivendi, (EPA: VIV) which announced its strangely-named portal last week, has now announced that Zaoza will launch in January, and the site… Read more »
Earnings: Vivendi Plans Entertainment Portal; Universal Slides Despite Digital Doubling
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) will this week test a “content and services platform” website that, whilst secretive, could be a direct-to-consumer onlin… Read more »
Europe's VOD, Digital Cinema Grants Almost Doubling
By Dianne See Morrison
The European Commission is increasing its funding for video-on-demand and digital cinema distribution projects to meet higher-than-expected… Read more »
Lycos Europe Sells Its Stake In Tom's Hardware Publisher Best Of Media
Lycos Europe has sold its eight percent stake in France’s Best Of Media to Alter Finance Capital for 1.7 million euros (£1.2 million). Best… Read more »
iPhone Friday: Germans First In Europe To Pick Up The Phone
Germans will get bragging rights to owning the iPhone before UK customers this Friday. The Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) store at Schildergass… Read more »
Pearson Finally Sells Les Echos To LVMH For $347 Million; Opposition From Journalists
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So the Pearson-LVMH deal has finally happened, after months of back and forth and protests: French luxury goods group LVMH has signed an agr… Read more »
Audiovox to Buy Thomson Music/Video Business, Including RCA Brand; Includes MP3 players
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Consumer electronics firm Audiovox is buying French electronics maker Thomson’s non-European audio video business for $19.7 million. The sal… Read more »
@Mipcom: Mobile The Most Popular Screen For Orange’s Rewind
Subscribers to Orange’s French three-screen TV offering have been watching trial shows more on mobile than via other available media. The te… Read more »
French Virtual Tickets Outfit Digitick Gets £5.53 Million Investment
Another week, another funding round for an online tickets company. Here in Europe, Seatwave and Viagogo are competing for the secondary tick… Read more »
French TV Companies Marathon And TF1 In Digital Content Creation Deal
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French TV producer Marathon Media Group has inked a three-year multimedia production deal with eTF1, the digital arm of Paris-based broadcas… Read more »
Apple’s Disagreement With Orange, IPhone Hackers
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This weeks iPhone news doesn’t compliment Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as much as previously… for starters, the (supposedly official) announcement o… Read more »
More On AOL In Europe: Layoffs In France And Germany, Higher Numbers In UK
By Ingrid Lunden
Following on from yesterday’s post on AOL (NYSE: TWX) negotiating 13 redundancies in the UK, more numbers are trickling in today: the number… Read more »
French Finance Site Boursorama Buys Germany’s onVista For £96.7 Million
French financial news site Boursorama (EPA:BRS) is acquiring a 77.4 percent stake in leading German online finance news publisher onVista (F… Read more »
EyeWonder Buys German Interactive Ad and Streaming Firm Vendi
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EyeWonder, the Atlanta, U.S.-based developer of rich media and digital video solutions for online ads, has acquired Cologne, Germany-based V… Read more »
France Telecom, Sagem, Thomson Form JV For Digital Home Standards
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In France, France Telecom is setting up a joint venture with Thomson and Safran unit Sagem to develop wireless data transfer equipment to co… Read more »
Earnings: Fotolog Buyer Hi-Media’s HY Revenue Up 53 Percent, Acquisition Awaits Approval
Half-year operating profits at Europe’s third-ranked online ad group Hi-Media were up to EUR 7 million (£4.87 million) after sales jumped 5… Read more »
French, German Social Net Fans Love Skyrock, But Facebook Is A Bit Player
Half of all French and 45 percent of Germans do it. That’s social networking. ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data for July has given an insight in to… Read more »
Google Plants Itself Behind International Privacy Framework
After months of European criticism of its privacy policies and as it crosses fingers the US Federal Trade Commission will green-light its Do… Read more »
France's Le Monde Launches Web 2.0-Heavy News Site Le Post
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