Broadband Content Bits: Football League Ads, ITN Christmas, Swedish Traffic, VMtv Sale
– Football League ads: After this month awarding a mobile content contract, Football League Interactive is now putting the contract for adv… Read more »
Swedish VOD Provider Voddler Raises $2.2 Million; Inks Deals With Disney, Paramount
Voddler, a Swedish VOD tech and content provider, has raised $2.2 million in funding, per an SEC filing. The company is backed in part by De… Read more »
After Running Aground, New Pirate Bay Acquisition Chatter Is Afloat
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Global Gaming Factory X (GGF)’s much-hyped and now defunct bid to buy BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay was a ship that never sailed. But mo… Read more »
Mobile Live Video Streamer Bambuser Finds Its New CEO At MySpace
Sweden’s Bambuser, a mobile live videocaster that rivals Qik and Flixwagon, is hiring MySpace Nordic CEO Hans Ericksson as its new CEO, to r… Read more »
Music Biz: New Laws Have Reduced Piracy In P2P’s Heartland
Sweden, land of The Pirate Bay, is pretty much the home of illegal file sharing. So we were suspicious when a report emerged in April claimi… Read more »
Swedish ISP Telia Bundling Spotify With Broadband, Mobile, TV
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Though planned music services from ISPs Sky and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) are still just vapourware, bundling music downloads with broadband… Read more »
Pirate Bay Acquisition Deadline Passes; Still No Sale
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There seems to be as much chance of Global Gaming Factory X buying the Mary Celeste as it buying The Pirate Bay. The company’s shaky, non-sp… Read more »
Spotify Director Disqualified From Hearing Pirate Bay Appeal
Sweden’s Court Of Appeal has kicked Spotify’s product development director off a lay jury that was due to hear Pirate Bay admins’ appeal aga… Read more »
Would-Be Pirate Bay Buyer Faces Bankruptcy Filing
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After being kicked off the Swedish stock market for not providing evidence of the funds needed to buy giant BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Ba… Read more »
Spotify Restricts Access In Some European Countries
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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 »
Swedish Publishers Snare eBook Pirate With IPRED Law
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Launched in April to counter P2P file-sharing in Sweden, the IPRED law has claimed its first victim. The Intellectual Property Rights Direct… Read more »
Apple Says It Has Approved App From Music Service Spotify
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) says it has approved an iPhone app from Spotify, a music service that some people believe represents a growing threat to… Read more »
Global Gaming's Pirate Bay Deal Approved By Shareholders
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The new Pirate Bay is born: Global Gaming Factory X’s long-running and controversial attempt to buy the infamous and often outlawed Torrent-… Read more »
Pirate Bay Buyer Revises Deal At Eleventh Hour, Faces Market Delisting
With hours to go until its deadline, would-be Pirate Bay buyer Global Gaming Factory X is having to perform a financial contortionist act to… Read more »
Updated: Spotify Sank £4 Million In To Start-Up R&D
Updated: Music streamer Spotify’s Swedish R&D HQ finished 2007 and 2008 48.11 million SEK (£4 million) down after building out its app in i… Read more »
INQ Mobile Launches Two New Phones With Twitter, Media Syncing
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The first phone that Hutchison Whampoa-owned INQ Mobile built was known for its tight integration with Facebook, and drove 65 percent of use… Read more »
Spotify Launches Video Ads; TV Clips Coming Soon?
Music-streaming site du jour Spotify has graduated from showing audio adverts to showing video ads — and the Swedish company told Content:U… Read more »
Ericsson Pays $1.13 Billion To Win Nortel Assets At Auction
Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the largest wireless infrastructure company in the world, has agreed to pay $1.13 billion in cash to acquire parts of… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Chinese IPTV, BT Vision/Match.com, Swedish Piracy
– Chinese IPTV: New York-based Chinese IPTV service KyLinTV is partnering with fellow Chinese broadcaster Phoenix TV to bring 20 Chinese TV… Read more »
Oops, Britney Hits Photographers With Copyright Grab
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When Britney Spears plays Stockholm’s Globe Arena on July 13, the press photographers’ pen could be a little empty… According to thelocal.… Read more »
Interview: Pirate Bay Bidders Hope To Make $40 Million A Month From Ads
So how exactly does unlikely Pirate Bay bidder Global Gaming Factory X intend to profit from the scourge of the entertainment industry, and… Read more »
Swedish Exchange Investigates Possible Insider Trading Around Pirate Bay Sale
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Swedish stock exchange officials are investigating whether there may have been insider trading around Global Factory X’s deal to buy Pirate… Read more »
The Party’s Over: Software Firm Buying Pirate Bay, Will Go Legit
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Swedish publicly listed software company Global Gaming Factory X says it wants to buy The Pirate Bay SEK60 million ($7.8 million) and will b… Read more »
The Party’s Over: Software Firm Buying Pirate Bay, Will Go Legit
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Swedish publicly listed software company Global Gaming Factory X (GFF) says it wants to buy The Pirate Bay SEK60 million (£4.7 million) and… Read more »
Mobile Payments Provider Accumulate Raises First Round
Swedish mobile payment and security solutions provider Accumulate has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sweden’s Sixth Swedish Na… Read more »
News Bytes: Club Sites Beat Papers’ Sites; Pirate Bay VPN; Amuso Games
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– Merseyside search stats: A Hitwise study of traffic and search terms in the Liverpool area in March found that of the top 1,000 search te… Read more »
Avast! Meet The Pirate Party’s First Ever European Parliamentarian
Sweden is waking up to an unlikely political reality: the Pirate Party, which campaigns for radical changes to copyright law and legalised f… Read more »
Industry Moves: GNM Taps Hartley For Web Projects; BBCWW; Google
Former MEN Media head of online editorial Sarah Hartley, who left last week after eight years, is joining GMG stablemate Guardian News & Med… Read more »
Music Biz Tries To Finish The Job, Applies To Shut Down Pirate Bay
The music industry may have been pleased with securing a successful criminal conviction of the Pirate Bay’s four operators for assisting cop… Read more »
Spain Mulls ISP Tax As Swedes Continue Defying Piracy Clampdown
Entertainment companies in Spain have a novel idea for recouping revenue lost to piracy: get ISPs to impose a surcharge on customers’ accoun… Read more »
