Broadband Content Bits: BT Vision Gets Bollywood; German Online Radio; Amino's PVR Release

By Patrick Smith

Sep. 3, 2009 - 4:07 PM EDT Sep. 3, 2009 - 4:07 PM EDT

– MoMedia: The Endemol-based online content distributor is bringing a Bollywood-themed channel to the BT (NYSE: BT) Vision IPTV platform vi… Read more »

Germany Opposes Google's Books Settlement In US Court Filing

By Patrick Smith

Sep. 2, 2009 - 2:53 PM EDT Sep. 2, 2009 - 2:53 PM EDT

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Germany has declared itself an enemy of Google’s ambitious and controversial plans to digitise millions of out-of-print books, fearing the c… Read more »

Earnings: Bertelsmann Swings To Loss On Falling Magazine, Book Sales

By Patrick Smith

Sep. 1, 2009 - 3:14 PM EDT Sep. 1, 2009 - 3:14 PM EDT

“Strong increases” in e-book sales in the UK, Germany and the US couldn’t stop book publisher Random House’s January-to-June profits falling… Read more »

PayPal Brings Billing To BlackBerry's App World In 10 New Countries; Four Languages

By Tricia Duryee

Aug. 25, 2009 - 2:00 AM EDT Aug. 25, 2009 - 2:00 AM EDT

photo: PayPal

We knew that Research In Motion was rolling out its BlackBerry App World in new countries, but now PayPal — which is the exclusive billing… Read more »

Plista Secures VC Funding To Build Recommendation Widgets

By Patrick Smith

Aug. 24, 2009 - 9:55 PM EDT Aug. 24, 2009 - 9:55 PM EDT

Personalisation and targeting firm Plista has secured second round funding — between Read more »

Casual Game Score Tracker Scoreloop Gets

By Patrick Smith

Aug. 18, 2009 - 7:02 PM EDT Aug. 18, 2009 - 7:02 PM EDT

Munich-based social gaming platform Scoreloop has won Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: Broadband Survey; German P2P Plan; weComm-Livestation; BBCWW's Court Case;

By Patrick Smith

Aug. 11, 2009 - 11:32 AM EDT Aug. 11, 2009 - 11:32 AM EDT

– Broadband VOD survey: More than half of people wouldn’t be tempted to watch more online video if they had faster broadband, according to… Read more »

German Social Gamer Wooga Gets VC Funds

By Patrick Smith

Aug. 7, 2009 - 9:36 PM EDT Aug. 7, 2009 - 9:36 PM EDT

A rare VC deal at the high of the summer investment lull: Berlin’s social gaming company Wooga (which stands for “world of gaming”) has rece… Read more »

Earnings: Vodafone Declares iPhone Interest; Profits Rise On Asia Growth

By Patrick Smith

Jul. 24, 2009 - 12:55 PM EDT Jul. 24, 2009 - 12:55 PM EDT

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) isn’t alone in wanting to prise away O2′s exclusive rights to distribute the iPhone in the UK — but it is shouting the… Read more »

Bertelsmann Back in Music Biz in Earnest; Up To

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 8, 2009 - 8:58 AM EDT Jul. 8, 2009 - 8:58 AM EDT

Bertelsmann, who all but exited out of music business when it sold its portion in Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG back to Sony last year, is back in it… Read more »

Virtual World Twinity Bags

By Robert Andrews

Jul. 7, 2009 - 2:10 PM EDT Jul. 7, 2009 - 2:10 PM EDT

Berlin’s Metaversum has bagged a Read more »

Hi-Media Buys European Online Ad Unit of AdLink; Valued at 29 Million Euros

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 6, 2009 - 4:45 AM EDT Jul. 6, 2009 - 4:45 AM EDT

European online advertising network and marketing firm AdLink Group, part of Germany Read more »

Report: German Launch Of Amazon’s Kindle Stalled Over Wireless-Connection Pricing

By Rafat Ali

Jun. 30, 2009 - 10:50 PM EDT Jun. 30, 2009 - 10:50 PM EDT

The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle, a success if you believe the buzz around the device and some of the numbers analysts have come up with, is l… Read more »

Report: Vodafone Considering Bid For T-Mobile UK

By Dianne See Morrison

Jun. 29, 2009 - 3:16 PM EDT Jun. 29, 2009 - 3:16 PM EDT

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is mulling over a bid for T-Mobile UK, a move that would catapult them to the lead of the British mobile phone market,… Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: Rapidshare Fine Appeal; IAB Games Council; TV5 Monde Launches Web TV Service

By Patrick Smith

Jun. 26, 2009 - 10:21 PM EDT Jun. 26, 2009 - 10:21 PM EDT

– Rapidshare appeal: The German file-sharing site is appealing its Read more »

Research: Fewer Than One In 10 People Download Video Illegally

By Patrick Smith

Jun. 19, 2009 - 3:33 PM EDT Jun. 19, 2009 - 3:33 PM EDT

How much of a problem is illegal, online video downloading in developed countries? Perhaps not as much as most people think, according to a… Read more »

German Live Music Seller Gets

By Patrick Smith

Jun. 18, 2009 - 9:32 PM EDT Jun. 18, 2009 - 9:32 PM EDT

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Cologne-based live music retailer Music Networx has negotiated a Read more »

Mobile Content Bits: SpinVox Expands; Ovi Store; RealNetworks-Vodafone Germany; Russia Mobile Ads

By Dianne See Morrison

Jun. 18, 2009 - 7:52 PM EDT Jun. 18, 2009 - 7:52 PM EDT

– SpinVox-Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) Latin American deal: British speech-to-text firm, SpinVox, has signed a deal with European telecoms group… Read more »

Industry Moves: ITV Candidate Ball Joins BT Board

By Robert Andrews

Jun. 17, 2009 - 2:31 PM EDT Jun. 17, 2009 - 2:31 PM EDT

Former BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO Tony Ball – amongst the frontrunners to be named ITV (LSE: ITV) CEO – is joining BT’s board from mid-July as a… Read more »

Investment Round-Up: Northwest Agency Gets £2.7 million; MyFab Gets

By Patrick Smith

Jun. 16, 2009 - 1:49 AM EDT Jun. 16, 2009 - 1:49 AM EDT

– Northwest Vision and Media: The digital and creative incubator has raised an extra £2.7 million from the European Regional Development F… Read more »

Europe Round-Up: Russia’s Microsoft Probe; Dailymotion Stats; Deutsche Telekom IPTV; Fremantle CEO

By Patrick Smith

Jun. 5, 2009 - 2:47 PM EDT Jun. 5, 2009 - 2:47 PM EDT

photo: AP Images

– Russia vs Microsoft: Russia’s anti-trust authority has launched an investigation after alleging that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has cut its s… Read more »

T-Mobile Germany: Pay For VoIP Usage Or We Will Continue To Block It

By Dianne See Morrison

Jun. 4, 2009 - 5:14 PM EDT Jun. 4, 2009 - 5:14 PM EDT

So much for kicking out the tenants and their lease-breaking little dogs Read more »

Tracking Nokia’s Ovi Store Rollout: 109 Countries So Far; What’s Selling Where

By Tricia Duryee

May. 27, 2009 - 3:30 AM EDT May. 27, 2009 - 3:30 AM EDT

Nokia started the rollout of its Ovi Store this weekend, first launching in Singapore, and then slowly adding additional countries, such as… Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: BSkyB’s Music; Global Radio; Tiscal-Yell.com; German EPG Deal, Adult URLs

By Patrick Smith

May. 26, 2009 - 1:39 PM EDT May. 26, 2009 - 1:39 PM EDT

– BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) music: Long after plans of the scheme first surfaced, more detail on BSkyB’s music download subscription service, run i… Read more »

German Careers Site Experteer Gets

By Patrick Smith

May. 21, 2009 - 2:53 PM EDT May. 21, 2009 - 2:53 PM EDT

The recruitment market may have been badly hit in the advertising crash, but despite that German jobs site Experteer has won Read more »

T-Mobile Germany “Reconsidering” VoIP Strategy; Skype Stripped From N97

By Dianne See Morrison

May. 14, 2009 - 4:11 PM EDT May. 14, 2009 - 4:11 PM EDT

When the iPhone application for voice over IP provider Skype was released in late March, T-Mobile Germany vowed to block the app, both physi… Read more »

Industry Moves: Telefónica Taps Ex-Vodafone Marketing Director As O2 Germany Head

By Dianne See Morrison

May. 13, 2009 - 5:15 PM EDT May. 13, 2009 - 5:15 PM EDT

Spain Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: AOL Relaunch; In-Game Ads; Joost Movies Deal; Babelgum

By Patrick Smith

May. 12, 2009 - 3:12 PM EDT May. 12, 2009 - 3:12 PM EDT

– New AOL (NYSE: TWX) homepage: AOL today launches a beta of its new UK homepage, which hopes to draw in new users by adding links rivals’… Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: Playstation 3 VOD; Perform’s e-Player; T-Mobile Paramount

By Patrick Smith

May. 7, 2009 - 4:05 PM EDT May. 7, 2009 - 4:05 PM EDT

– Playstation-VidZone: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment Europe is launching a free, ad-supported music video service for UK Playstat… Read more »

Earnings: Deutsche Telekom Posts Loss On T-Mobile UK Writedown; Downturn Hits T-Mobile USA

By Dianne See Morrison

May. 7, 2009 - 2:17 PM EDT May. 7, 2009 - 2:17 PM EDT

Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) posted a first quarter loss as the economic downturn hit the performance of its T-Mobile units in the USA, UK, a… Read more »

Samsung Debuts Its First Android-Based Phone The I7500

By Dianne See Morrison

Apr. 27, 2009 - 5:02 PM EDT Apr. 27, 2009 - 5:02 PM EDT

More traction for Google’s mobile operating system Android. Samsung, the world Read more »

Springer Set For

By Patrick Smith

Apr. 27, 2009 - 1:43 PM EDT Apr. 27, 2009 - 1:43 PM EDT

Thought the boom in private equity media investment was over? Not so for German scientific and medical publisher Springer Science and Busine… Read more »

Glasses Direct Defies Recession With £10 Million Second Round Funding

By Patrick Smith

Apr. 21, 2009 - 9:28 PM EDT Apr. 21, 2009 - 9:28 PM EDT

Forget your compelling online content business model, you just need to sell things to get big funding. The UK’s largest online prescription… Read more »

Sarah Brightman’s Ex Suing YouTube On Copyright

By Robert Andrews

Apr. 17, 2009 - 4:29 PM EDT Apr. 17, 2009 - 4:29 PM EDT

YouTube has another lawsuit to worry about – albeit, a much smaller one than the cases it’s facing from Viacom (NYSE: VIA), Premier League e… Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: Independent.co.uk Video; Tiscali VOD; FactualTV; Sky News; iTunes Germany

By Patrick Smith

Apr. 16, 2009 - 3:13 PM EDT Apr. 16, 2009 - 3:13 PM EDT

– Independent.co.uk: Following on from the long list of online partnerships it signed in the past year, the Indie is to show the Endemol-pr… Read more »

EU May Force Carriers To Carry VoIP Traffic

By Dianne See Morrison

Apr. 14, 2009 - 3:11 PM EDT Apr. 14, 2009 - 3:11 PM EDT

Possible good news for Skype, which has seen its iPhone application launched earlier this month, blocked by Germany Read more »

Mobile Content Bits: Vodafone Spain Launches Unlimited Music; Skype Wants EU Intervention

By Dianne See Morrison

Apr. 6, 2009 - 8:54 PM EDT Apr. 6, 2009 - 8:54 PM EDT

– Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Spain’s rolls out unlimited music plan: Vodafone Spain has launched a new unlimited music service that bundles music… Read more »

Glam Raises $10 Million Fifth Round For German, Japan Expansions

By David Kaplan

Apr. 6, 2009 - 3:29 PM EDT Apr. 6, 2009 - 3:29 PM EDT

Glam Media has raised a $10 million fifth round from investors related to its Japanese and German units, paidContent has learned. The Japane… Read more »

Glam Raises $10 Million Fifth Round For German, Japan Expansions

By David Kaplan

Apr. 6, 2009 - 3:29 PM EDT Apr. 6, 2009 - 3:29 PM EDT

Glam Media has raised a $10 million fifth round from investors related to its Japanese and German units, paidContent has learned. The Japane… Read more »

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Broadband Content Bits: BT Vision Gets Bollywood; German Online Radio; Amino's PVR Release

Germany Opposes Google's Books Settlement In US Court Filing

Earnings: Bertelsmann Swings To Loss On Falling Magazine, Book Sales

PayPal Brings Billing To BlackBerry's App World In 10 New Countries; Four Languages

Plista Secures VC Funding To Build Recommendation Widgets

Casual Game Score Tracker Scoreloop Gets

Broadband Content Bits: Broadband Survey; German P2P Plan; weComm-Livestation; BBCWW's Court Case;

German Social Gamer Wooga Gets VC Funds

Earnings: Vodafone Declares iPhone Interest; Profits Rise On Asia Growth

Bertelsmann Back in Music Biz in Earnest; Up To

Hi-Media Buys European Online Ad Unit of AdLink; Valued at 29 Million Euros

Report: German Launch Of Amazon’s Kindle Stalled Over Wireless-Connection Pricing

Report: Vodafone Considering Bid For T-Mobile UK

Broadband Content Bits: Rapidshare Fine Appeal; IAB Games Council; TV5 Monde Launches Web TV Service

German Live Music Seller Gets

Mobile Content Bits: SpinVox Expands; Ovi Store; RealNetworks-Vodafone Germany; Russia Mobile Ads

Industry Moves: ITV Candidate Ball Joins BT Board

Investment Round-Up: Northwest Agency Gets £2.7 million; MyFab Gets

Europe Round-Up: Russia’s Microsoft Probe; Dailymotion Stats; Deutsche Telekom IPTV; Fremantle CEO

T-Mobile Germany: Pay For VoIP Usage Or We Will Continue To Block It

Broadband Content Bits: BSkyB’s Music; Global Radio; Tiscal-Yell.com; German EPG Deal, Adult URLs

German Careers Site Experteer Gets

More Problems For Google’s Street View In Europe

T-Mobile Germany “Reconsidering” VoIP Strategy; Skype Stripped From N97

Industry Moves: Telefónica Taps Ex-Vodafone Marketing Director As O2 Germany Head

Broadband Content Bits: AOL Relaunch; In-Game Ads; Joost Movies Deal; Babelgum

Broadband Content Bits: Playstation 3 VOD; Perform’s e-Player; T-Mobile Paramount

Earnings: Deutsche Telekom Posts Loss On T-Mobile UK Writedown; Downturn Hits T-Mobile USA

Samsung Debuts Its First Android-Based Phone The I7500

Springer Set For

Glasses Direct Defies Recession With £10 Million Second Round Funding

Sarah Brightman’s Ex Suing YouTube On Copyright

Broadband Content Bits: Independent.co.uk Video; Tiscali VOD; FactualTV; Sky News; iTunes Germany

EU May Force Carriers To Carry VoIP Traffic

Mobile Content Bits: Vodafone Spain Launches Unlimited Music; Skype Wants EU Intervention

Glam Raises $10 Million Fifth Round For German, Japan Expansions

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