France Slaps Google With First Fine Over Street View
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The fine that French privacy authorities levied today against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) won’t amount to more than lunch money for the search giant… Read more »
Publishers Lobby And Re-Group On Digital Policy
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German magazine publishers aim to lobby the G8 nations to defend them against Apple’s subscription policy, while an editors group has spun o… Read more »
One Setback For NFC: Apple May Not Put It In The Next iPhone
We’ve seen some significant advances made in the mobile money game in the last several months, but some news today underscored how this is s… Read more »
Google Fined In French Court For Not Stopping Video Copyright Abuse
It turns out Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can still be successfully sued for hosting copyrighted material without authorisation.
Paris’ appeal court… Read more »
Orange, T-Mobile JV Losing Customers; France Tel Says 2011 Outlook Stable
When France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile merged forces to become Everything Everywhere in the UK, the promise was for sc… Read more »
MSN’s Scott Moore Questions ‘Risky Bet’ AOL Made On HuffPo
AOL’s acquisition of Huffington Post makes for a “risky bet,” according to Scott Moore, partner and regional executive producer at Microsoft… Read more »
Apple’s In-App Rules: ‘Betrayed’ European Publishers Convene A Summit
Publishers in Europe are up in arms over Apple’s decision to reject Sony’s Reader app. They say Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has left them “confused”… Read more »
Facebook Deals Comes To Europe; Users Now Get Offers When They Check In
Facebook today took one more step in its ownership of the mobile space: today it expanded its Facebook Deals service into five markets in Eu… Read more »
Orange Bets Big On Video, Buys 49Pct Of ‘French YouTube’ Dailymotion
Orange, the French telecoms operator, has entered into exclusive negotiations to take a 49 percent stake in the online video company Dailymo… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Apple’s 10 Billion; Sony Qriocity; WP7 Data/Yahoo
– Apple: The App Store hit its ten-billionth download on January 22. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had turned the occasion into a contest, with an $10… Read more »
British Library Goes For Apps As UK Preps To Close 20 Pct Of Local Branches
More moves from old-school institutions into the world of apps: the British Library today announced a new app for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iOS and… Read more »
France’s Bon-Prive Raises €1.5 Million In Daily Deals Craze
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With Groupon having raised $500 million over Christmas, the kindling is well alight under the deals-buying paradigm. And investments are sti… Read more »
Telefonica, Orange, Verizon Hope To Win The Next Round In Mobile Content
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The smartphone revolution, as led by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), has given us a whole new way to consume mobile content, in the form of apps. The pr… Read more »
France Says Google Is Main Cause Of News Publishers’ Woes
French authorities have finally got some kind of ruling against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) – but it turns out to be rather toothless.
The competit… Read more »
Orange CEO On Competing With Google, The iPad And More
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Today, Orange’s CEO Stephane Richard sat down for a Q&A at the LeWeb conference in Paris, where he talked about the iPad, smartphone sales,… Read more »
Orange Launches Partner Connect To Drive More Apps To Its Store
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Today, Orange in Europe launched Orange Partner Connect, a “one-stop shop” for developers to submit apps to the operator’s own country-speci… Read more »
France’s Newpapers Team Up On Paid-Kiosk Initiative
Eight of France’s leading newspapers publishers and Orange have teamed to form a consortium aiming to jointly monetise electronic platforms… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Angry Birds; HTC Antennas; France 4G; Motorola/Apple Patents
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– Angry Birds: Developers Rovio are expecting to make $1 million per month in advertising from the free, ad-supported Android version of th… Read more »
Boku Inks Deals With Carriers In France, Korea For Mobile Payments
The rise of app stores and the growth of the open mobile web have largely cut mobile operators out of the mobile content game. The smart one… Read more »
Fox Mobile Lays Off 15 Percent Of Staff In Germany, Other Markets
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Earlier this year, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). confirmed it wanted to sell Fox Mobile. Now it appears that in the meantime, it’s cutting costs an… Read more »
The Biggest iPad Subsidy Of All: Softbank Gives It Away – What’s Behind It?
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One more operator is offering a reduced price for the iPad if you take it on a two-year contract: Softbank in Japan is preparing to launch a… Read more »
More On The Subsidised iPad: France, More Operators Added To Mix
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Following yesterday’s news that T-Mobile and Orange plan to sell the iPad at a reduced rate in the UK when bundled with data plans, some mor… Read more »
Apple Tests Operators’ Patience With ‘Soft Sim’ Plans
Mobile operators have conceded a lot to Apple in the last few years – most of it, not by choice – in the name of carrying its attractive, da… Read more »
Google And Hachette Livre Reach Book Scanning Deal
France’s Hachette Livre will get to decide which French language books Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can digitize and sell, the FT reported. In striki… Read more »
Updated: Apple’s iAd in Europe Starts December With Unilever, InBev
Six months after launch, some more international expansion for Apple’s iAd advertising platform. This week, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is reportedly… Read more »
France’s Newspaper Giveaway ‘Good Business’ For Publishers
Yesterday, we reported how France is giving away 210,000 one-copy-per-week newspaper subscriptions to citizens around the country, in an int… Read more »
Mobile Bits: HP Releases WebOS 2.0; VZ Data; U-Verse On Android; Loopt
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– HP (NYSE: HPQ) updates webOS 2.0: HP has released the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre 2 smartphone, which will run webOS 2.0. The device will be av… Read more »
‘Permanent Artificial Respiration’: France Buys Its Citizens 210k News Subs
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France expects to give away another 210,000 free newspaper subscriptions to citizens aged 18-24 over the next year, in a state intervention… Read more »
France Will Buy Its Citizens Digital Music Worth
Nearly two years ago, France announced plans to help save its news business by giving every citizen a free newspaper subscription on their 1… Read more »
Updated: Twitter.com’s Impact On News Traffic Is Tiny
Facebook sends 13 times more clicks to news sites than Twitter in France, according to European internet monitor AT Internet Institute…
T… Read more »
In France, Freesheets Are Most Popular Newspapers; But Not In Italy
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Two posts by Hogeschool Utrecht professor Piet Bakker show different outcomes for freesheet newspapers in Europe…
In France, the 20 Minut… Read more »
French Scandal Boosts Paid News Site’s Profile
By Graham Tearse: The Bettencourt “Butlergate” scandal engulfing President Nicolas Sarkozy has also marked a watershed moment for the French… Read more »
Orange Wants To Sell French TV Channels – News Corp In The Frame?
France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is looking for buyers for its Orange-branded IPTV channels, and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) is among the companies said… Read more »
Greek Plan To Tax Web Ads At 21.5 Percent Draws Fire
One way Greece hopes to extricate itself from its economic crisis? Tax its news websites.
In pension reform law due to be voted upon by par… Read more »
‘Dinosaur’ Le Monde Agrees To Takeover To Save It From Bankruptcy
By Kim Wilsher: Since its first edition came out on 19 December 1944, printed on a single sheet, Le Monde has been universally accepted as F… Read more »
Le Monde Getting Joint Buy-Out Bid From France Telecom
Imagine a world in which a mobile phone carrier and a bathroom pump maker owned a newspaper. Well, keep dreaming…
France Telecom (NYSE: F… Read more »
Publicis’ Levy: ‘There Is Nothing Big Left To Buy’
It looks like Publicis Groupe’s three-year digital acquisition binge may be slowing down. It’s not for a lack of desire on the part of the m… Read more »
Alcatel-Lucent Joining Mobile Ad Rush As Permission Marketing Middleman
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Alcatel-Lucent is trying to carve itself a place in the fast-growing mobile advertising space, launching a service with which agencies can b… Read more »
Publicis Takes Small Stake in Brazilian Ad Shop Taterka
Ad agency holding companies are continuing to look to Brazil as a hot spot to plant their flag. Publicis Groupe, along with WPP Group, has m… Read more »
Glam Vs Glam: Fashion Site Launches In France Amid Trademark Agro
Women’s lifestyle vertical publisher Glam Media has launched its site in France, following last week’s Paris Fashion Week – despite two warn… Read more »
