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French Broadcasters Walk Out Over Telecom Tax, A Summer Of Media Strikes?
Another day in French media, another strike. TV and radio workers walked out yesterday in protest as president Sarkozy’s plan to scrap publi… Read more »
Industry Moves: Lemarchand New HFM U.S. CEO; Kliger Bumped Up To Chairman
A changing of the guard at Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. … Alain Lemarchand becomes CEO effective Sept. 1, running the magazine and digit… Read more »
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French Social Net Skyrock.com Seeking Sale To Telco, Talks Ongoing
Skyrock.com, one of the bigger online social networks and based out of France, is talking with several suitors about a sale, as it nears div… Read more »
French Social Net Skyrock.com Seeking Sale To Telco, Talks Ongoing
Skyrock.com, one of the world’s largest social networks, is talking with several suitors about a sale, as it nears divestment from its partn… Read more »
Moto To Offer Full-Length Movies For Download On Handsets In UK
By Rafat Ali
Motorola (NYSE: MOT), feeling ignored among all the iPhone-mania, has announced a deal of its own: in UK, it has done a deal with Paramount… Read more »
LeGuide Price Comparison Site Buys DooYoo For UGC Reviews
French price comparison site LeGuide.com is buying roduct reviews destination DooYoo. The Berlin-based site also has price comparison (and i… Read more »
Minogue’s Ex Sues UK Newspapers In France: Web Took Breach Over Borders
Kylie Minogue’s ex just keeps on setting legal precedents. A French court has ordered two UK newspapers to pay fines for breaking privacy la… Read more »
Industry Moves: CEO of Netvibes Steps Down; COO Steps Up
By Rafat Ali
Paris-based Netvibes, the much-hyped personalized homepage and widget company, has a new CEO: the charismatic founder Tariq Krim has stepped… Read more »
Sarkozy: French Media Brought To ‘Economic Precipice’ By Web
French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans for media reform have met with opposition lately – so now he’s called for someone else to stage a n… Read more »
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Dailymotion: No Sale Talks, Profitable Soon; 10M Euros This Year
By Rafat Ali
The France-based online video site Dailymotion says it is not in talks with anyone for a sale, and the CEO Mark Zaleski also denied French m… Read more »
Mobile Entertainment Forum Launches Initiative To Spur Mobile Social Networking
By Tricia Duryee
Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social ne… Read more »
Mobile Entertainment Forum Launches Initiative To Spur Mobile Social Networking
By Tricia Duryee
Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social ne… Read more »
Earnings: Vivendi Q1 Profits Fall 5.6 Percent; Universal Music Digital Up 33 Percent
By David Kaplan
Entertainment and telecom conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) said its Q1 EBITA dropped 5.6 percent to $1.86 billion ( Read more »
Earnings: Lagardere Q1 Revenue Flat Overall, Digital Rises Sharply
By Dianne See Morrison
French media giant Lagardere reported earnings for the three months ending 31 March 2008 on Tuesday. Consolidated revenues for the entire gr… Read more »
Havas Increases Stake In AIS, Launches International Digital Expansion
By David Kaplan
French advertising holding company Havas has increased its 40 percent stake in London ad shop Archibald Ingall Stretton as the two prepare a… Read more »
Majority Sharehholder Infogrames Buys Rest of Atari For $11 Million
By Rafat Ali
Not that this is a surprise: Atari’s biggest shareholder Infogrames, the French video games company, has bought the struggling company after… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: EU Adoption; France Leads IPTV
– French IPTV: France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is the largest IPTV operator in the world, with 1.1 million subscribers, says a new report from T… Read more »
French Supermarket Giant Carrefour Plans Movie Download Store
Latest to launch a movie download store – and the latest amongst the supermarkets to try their hand – is France’s Carrefour. The world’s sec… Read more »
Orange Trials Mobile E-Newspaper Reader With Le Monde Et Al
Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read… Read more »
As Expected TF1 Sues YouTube; Seeking
By Joseph Weisenthal
As was first reported last December, French TV network TF1 has filed suit against YouTube alleging copyright infringement. French newspaper… Read more »
Vivendi Games/Activision Merger Nodded Through By EC
The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-… Read more »
IM Add-On Maker Iminent Gets £2 Million For Worldwide Launch
Paris-based IM add-on maker Iminent has raised a 2.5 million euro (£2 million) second round of funding to aide international expansion. Im… Read more »
French Court Outlaws Digg Clone For Linking To News Story
French Digg clone Fuzz has been forced offline after a link posted by a user to an off-site story was deemed to have constituted privacy inv… Read more »
Lagardere Buys UK Entertainment News & Community Site DigitalSpy
By Rafat Ali
DigitalSpy, one of my favorite UK TV and entertainment news sites, has been bought by Hachette Filipacchi U.K., part of the French media gia… Read more »
Lagardere Buys UK Entertainment News & Community Site DigitalSpy
By Rafat Ali
DigitalSpy, one of my favorite UK TV and entertainment news sites, has been bought by Hachette Filipacchi U.K., part of the French media gia… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Warner Accelerates VOD, Orange Premium TV
- Warner Bros: The movie studio is to make some films available over VOD platforms the same day they go on sale as DVDs. The studio is givin… Read more »
After Fotolog, Hi-Media Buys Sport.fr Stake To Play News Game
Despite its own site being down this morning, Hi-Media, the French online ad network/agency and a micropayments provider, is accelerating it… Read more »
Quaero Vs. Google: The Search Equivalent of Airbus Vs. Boeing?
By Dianne See Morrison
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Dailymotion’s Efforts To Take On Godzilla; Revenue Numbers
By Rafat Ali
A good profile of DailyMotion, the international online video site which is headquartered in Paris, and its efforts to distinguish itself fr… Read more »
Vivendi Tries More Online Games Through Broadband Unit
In which universe would an ISP launch a massively-multiplayer online game (MMPOG)? In the French universe. Neuf Cegetel last night unveiled… Read more »
Dow Jones Newswires Switches Partners; Will Distribute AFP, Not AP
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) and the Associated Press are ending a longstanding distribution and resource-sharing agreement. Instead, Dow Jones New… Read more »
Lagardere Expects Earnings Above 5 Percent From Digital Media By Next Year
By Rafat Ali
French media giant Lagardere announced its 2007 earnings yesterday and some numbers about its digital media activities:
– Lagardere Active… Read more »
Majority Sharehholder Infogrames Offers To Buy Atari
By Rafat Ali
The Atari saga continues, as its biggest shareholder Infogrames, the French video games company, has offered to buy the rest of the company… Read more »
Lagardere Takes Majority In French Women’s Online Publisher Doctissimo, For $109M
By Dianne See Morrison
French media group Lagardere is buying a 53.38 percent stake in the French online publisher for women Read more »
Lagardere Takes Majority In French Women’s Online Publisher Doctissimo, For $109M
By Dianne See Morrison
French media group Lagardere is buying a 53.38 percent stake in the French online publisher for women Read more »
Amazon Defies French Book Price Law, Mobilises Campaign
Hit with a ban on delivering books for free by a 26-year-old French law, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is defying the ruling – and trying to win custo… Read more »
Federation Against Software Theft Warns ISPs; Piracy Down In France
By Dianne See Morrison
More grief for ISPs. This time, it’s coming from The Federation Against Software Theft (The Federation) which has warned ISPs to get it toge… Read more »
Orange, Dailymotion Bidding For French Football Rights
Somewhat audaciously, Orange is taking on Canal+ in the race to win the TV rights to top-flight French soccer. Canal+, which has 4.3 million… Read more »
France 24 Taps Private Seam With Video Ads, While Sarkozy's Public Plan Faces Challenge
France’s multilingual TV news network France 24 is moving to place contextual video ads in its online footage – just as president Sarkozy th… Read more »
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