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Glam Media Uber Alles: Expanding Into Germany, Buying Munich’s Codex Media
By David Kaplan
Glam Media is opening a German site with help from its backer Burda Cross Media. Glam is also getting some extra assistance from its latest… Read more »
Flights Searcher Swoodoo Gets Funds, Tie-Ups From Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) is investing two million euros in Swoodoo, a German flights search and booking site, via its T-Online Ventures a… Read more »
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German MoSo Aka-Aki Raises Investment To Go Full-Time
German mobile social network Aka-Aki, which uses Bluetooth to do location-aware proximity networking and is also available in English, has r… Read more »
Round-Up: Music Trade News, Joost Japan, Aka-Aki Funding
– Music Trade News: ToyNews and CasualGaming.biz publisher Intent Media has bought Music Trade News from from publisher MB Media, and will… Read more »
WPP Makes Hostile Bid For TNS; GfK Considers Cash Bid In Response
By David Kaplan
As expected, WPP Group is making a hostile bid for audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres, which has rejected the ad holding company… Read more »
Luxury Shopping Community BuyVIP Funded By Bertelsmann
Two-year-old German, Spanish and Italian luxury shopping community BuyVIP has received a further round of investment of an undisclosed size… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Whedon’s Web Series; HDNet’s Concert Series; PopTok Launch; Bayreuth Opera
– Joss Whedon to launch vanishing web series: The Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Angel mastermind is set to release his writers’ strike-insp… Read more »
News Corp. Mulls German and Spanish Pay-TV Purchases
By Dianne See Morrison
Six years ago, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). lost some 2 billion euros in its investment into the German media and pay-TV company Kirch Group that… Read more »
Ad-Funded MVNO Blyk To Roll Out In Germany, Spain And Belgium
By Dianne See Morrison
Ad-funded mobile MVNO Blyk will launch in Germany, Spain, and Belgium next year, the company said today. Reuters reports that British-Finni… Read more »
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Nokia Buys Location-Based Social Net Plazes
By Rafat Ali
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is continuing on its social media related acquisition trail: it has now bought out Zurich and Berlin-based social networki… Read more »
BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion
By Rafat Ali
In the permutations being worked out for the sale of BMG part of music label SonyBMG, Bertelsmann is looking to retain a stake in the Europe… Read more »
BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion
By Rafat Ali
In the permutations being worked out for the sale of BMG part of music label SonyBMG, Bertelsmann is looking to retain a stake in the Europe… Read more »
Bertelsmann Wants $1.5 Billion For Sony BMG Stake, Talks ‘Advanced’: Report
Finally, some meat on the bone of the “Bertelsmann wants to quit music” story. An unnamed source tells FT Deutschland the German media group… 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 »
Despite Continued Rejection, TNS Opens Books To WPP
By David Kaplan
Audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres is pressing ahead with its merger with its German counterpart GfK, but it has nevertheless ag… Read more »
NBCU’s Peacock And PE Firm GMT Take $110 Million Majority Stake In German Gamer Bigpoint
By Joseph Weisenthal
Bigpoint, a German online games site, has sold to NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund and UK PE Firm GMT Communications Partners for Euro 70 million… Read more »
NBCU’s Peacock And PE Firm GMT Take Euro 70 Million Majority Stake In German Gamer Bigpoint
By Joseph Weisenthal
Bigpoint, a German online games site, has sold to NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund and UK PE Firm GMT Communications Partners for Euro 70 million… Read more »
Inspired By Glam Media, ProSiebenSat.1 Buys Women’s Portal Feeem Media
Looking to women’s fashion lifestyle network Glam Media in the U.S., German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired Munich-based Feeem Media… Read more »
German Online Ad Sales Firm Ad2Net Sold To VC Firm For About Eur 3.2 Million
By Rafat Ali
German internet company OnVista has sold off its online ad sales subsidiary Ad2Net to local venture capital firm Media Ventures GmbH, for ab… Read more »
On The Continent: ForMyBand Launch, OpenBravo Funding
– ForMyBand: With Sellaband and Slicethepie pitching at the fun-funded unsigned music game in English, a German startup, Berlin-based ForMy… Read more »
Jamba Quitting Mobile Games Development, Shutting Ojom Unit
Rafat was almost right on the button. In a meeting today, Jamba decided to stop developing its own mobile games, so is shutting its Ojom dev… Read more »
Vodafone Germany Head Questions Pay Mobile TV Model; Cites DVB-T
By Dianne See Morrison
More evidence that DVB-T, the technology that allows handsets to receive regular terrestrial TV signals, may have European operators rethink… Read more »
Lycos Europe Courts AOL, Others; Asks For $315.2 Million: Report
On-the-block Lycos Europe, touting itself for sale after failing to modernise the once-mighty portal, has approached AOL (NYSE: TWX), German… Read more »
Lycos Europe Courts AOL, Others; Asks For
On-the-block Lycos Europe, touting itself for sale after failing to modernise the once-mighty portal, has approached AOL (NYSE: TWX), German… Read more »
Arun Sarin To Step Down As Vodafone CEO; Colao To Be Replacement: Reports
By Rafat Ali
Arun Sarin, who defined Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) as the big global telecom conglomerate in his five years as CEO, is going to step down in July… Read more »
T-Mobile Expects To Remain Exclusive Carrier Of iPhone In Germany
By Dianne See Morrison
In the last few weeks, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been striking iPhone deals with carriers around the world, with the handsets to be sold on a n… Read more »
Mobivention Acquires Download Content Business of Airmotion
By James Quintana Pearce
German mobile content vendor Mobivention has bought Download Content business of German-based Airmotion — the companies aren’t releasing th… Read more »
Industry Moves: Jamster Takes Content EVP Linders From Endemol
News Corp/VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) mobile entertainment JV Jamster/Jamba has hired Endemol International’s digital media director William Linde… Read more »
Earnings: Telefonica Profits Rise 22 Percent Boosted By Latin American Units
By Dianne See Morrison
Spanish telecoms group Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) reported a first quarter 22 percent rise in profits, boosted by its Latin American mobile phon… Read more »
LG Launches DVB-T Handset
By James Quintana Pearce
LG (SEO: 066570) has launched a DVB-T compatible handset in Germany reports Telecoms Korea…so what was DVB-H for again? I don’t know how w… Read more »
Aegis Adds To Isobar’s International Holdings With Acquisition Of Germany’s Rmsarcar
By David Kaplan
Aegis Group has bought German online marketing consultancy rmsarcar.com, its second international digital acquisition in two weeks. Financi… Read more »
Earnings: Bertelsmann Sales Dip On CD Decline, Profit Up After Napster Pay-Outs
German media giant Bertelsmann saw year-on-year revenue fall 3.9 percent to 4.2 billion euros in the first quarter of 2008 – due to negative… Read more »
Earnings: Deutsche Telekom First Quarter Stable; T-Mobile Hit By Currency Declines
By Dianne See Morrison
German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) reported stable first-quarter results with adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depre… Read more »
WPP Expected To Bid Higher For TNS; Sorrell: Rejection Was ‘Cavalier’; TNS: Offer Was ‘Derisory’
By David Kaplan
Although WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer to acquire audience researcher Taylor Nelson Sofres was rejected over the the weekend,… Read more »
Audience Measurement Firm TNS Rejects WPP’s £1 Billion Offer
By David Kaplan
Audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres has rejected WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer as “opportunistic” and undervaluin… Read more »
Can “Free” DVB-T Drive Mobile TV Uptake?
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Updated: Deutsche Telekom Looking To Buy Sprint?
By Rafat Ali
Will Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel find a buyer to get it out of its troubles? So says Der Spiegel (via Reuters), the German magazine: Deutsche Te… Read more »
Axel Springer Turns Focus To Web And Foreign Business
By Dianne See Morrison
Following a disastrous foray into the German mail delivery business, Europe Read more »
Coming Soon: Wikipedia, The Book; Community Will Get Five Percent Of Sales
It’s the Wikipedia you’ll need Tipp-ex and a pen to edit. German publisher Bertelsmann says it will publish the first ever book based on ent… Read more »
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