The publisher of the west’s highest-selling newspaper is doing digital M&A at a rate of knots lately. Here’s how Germany’s Bild proprietor A… Read more »
– Pre2: Palm’s latest device running WebOS has debuted in Germany and the U.K. In both cases the device is being sold SIM-free and independ… Read more »
Six months after launch, some more international expansion for Apple’s iAd advertising platform. This week, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is reportedly… Read more »
The BlackBerry Partners Fund today is restructuring the way it operates in order to focus exclusively on mobile investments. In addition, it… Read more »
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is buying location-based services software company Aloqa, which is the handset maker’s second acquisition in less than… Read more »
Blog network Glam Media is getting less and less female focused these days and the company’s latest acquisition of German men’s online media… Read more »
Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) is forming a new video game label this year as part of a wider digital strategy to make its brand more mains… Read more »
Bitbop, Fox Mobile’s subscription-based TV program showcase, has made its debut on Research in Motion’s BlackBerry this week and is now prep… Read more »
German media conglomerate Axel Springer is selling off its 75 percent stakes in business news site WallStreet:Online and stock broker WallSt… Read more »
Social shopping site Groupon has acquired European imitator CityDeal, its second acquisition this month. Terms of the deal were not disclose… Read more »
Remember 12 months ago, when YouTube, negotiating music rates with European royalty collectors, yanked official music videos from its site i… Read more »
It’s not just newspapers that Rupert Murdoch is fancying for showing on iPads.
Sky Deutschland, News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) German pay-TV prov… Read more »
It’s sold or shut dozens of magazines since aborting the planned sale of RBI whole; now parent Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) has also quietly of… Read more »
We’ve seen a spate of investments in online shopping clubs over the last year. But most of the sites are geared to selling goods – as the ma… Read more »
Team Europe Ventures – the quartet of investors who backed StudiVZ and Amiando – is keeping the fire burning for early-stage digital venture… Read more »
By Mercedes Bunz: The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) over t… Read more »
Some consolidation in the European in-game virtual currency market: SponsorPay is buying its rival GratisPay. Both companies are based in Ge… Read more »
More European newspapers are joining the paid content club: Axel Springer has put up online paywalls for two of its German newspapers, the B… Read more »
– Yandex up: Russia’s largest search portal, reported in its 2009 preliminary results that revenues were up to 8.7 billion rubles (£180 bi… Read more »
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched its larger Kindle, the DX, in Europe two weeks ago, the promotion around the product was noticeable for be… Read more »
It was only last week that Germany’s justice minister suggested Google is becoming “a giant monopoly, similar to Microsoft”. Her comments ha… Read more »
Redwood Shores, California and Germany-based mobile ad firm Smaato has closed a healthy-looking $4.5 million (£2.7 million) second round of… Read more »
B2B magazine and data publisher Informa is in preliminary talks to buy German academic publisher Springer Science + Business Media, majority… Read more »
Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the com… Read more »
German mag publisher Burda Media is buying a 25.1 percent stake in the business-focused social networking site Xing.com for a total of Read more »
Cable operator Liberty Global has bought German cable and broadband business Unitymedia for Read more »
Getting procrastinating office workers and teenagers to play games on Facebook is still a thriving business model, it would seem. Berlin-bas… Read more »
Digital media owners from newspapers to music sites have made a virtue of the freemium business model — where users get a basic service for… Read more »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to push ahead with mobile search distribution deals, despite its search agreement with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT).… Read more »
A week after unveiling its much-anticipated handset, the Droid, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is getting international attention for the Android 2.0… Read more »
French-based travel site Easyvoyage has secured a PE-backed leveraged buyout worth Read more »
Become.com, one of the few remaining indie comparison search and shopping engines, has acquired Pangora GmbH, a German e-commerce technology… Read more »
TheFeedRoom, the grandaddy of online video and streaming services companies, has been acquired by international video tech provider KIT Digi… Read more »
German online music business Music Networx is investing in German music streaming and sharing service Simfy, which seals a long-term content… Read more »
– IP Vision: The web TV start-up has signed a deal to show Disney (NYSE: DIS) movies on its Freeview-based Fetch TV VOD platform. New films… Read more »
– Bebo TV: More original video content from the social network: its Originals division has launched a second, eight-week series of Meet the… Read more »
Cambridge-based enterprise search giant Autonomy has sealed a deal to provide search and advertising services to the website of Weser Kurier… Read more »
As its hype curve rises and grows around the world, music service Spotify is locking out eager, enterprising users from outside the six coun… Read more »
First Germany, now France. Nicolas Sarkozy’s government has written to a US court urging it to stop a $125 million settlement between Google… Read more »
– BBC-PS3: The Beeb’s released an updated version of the iPlayer for Sony (NYSE: SNE) PS3s. FM&T online controller Anthony Rose says the qu… Read more »
