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Earnings: Vivendi Q1 Profits Fall 5.6 Percent; Universal Music Digital Up 33 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 14 May 2008 08:16 PM PST

Entertainment and telecom conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) said its Q1 EBITA dropped 5.6 percent to $1.86 billion (€1.203 billion) from $1.91 billion last year. Although not exactly an indication of…

Majority Sharehholder Infogrames Buys Rest of Atari For $11 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 08:33 PM PST

Not that this is a surprise: Atari’s biggest shareholder Infogrames, the French video games company, has bought the struggling company after its non-binding offer earlier in March. The cost for…

Orange Trials Mobile E-Newspaper Reader With Le Monde Et Al - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 05:41 AM PST

Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…

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Vivendi Games-Activision Merger Approved By EC; Claims Of ‘Unfair’ Music Competition Brushed Aside - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:33 AM PST

The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-trust grounds. The EC began a routine investigation in…

Lagardere Buys UK Entertainment News & Community Site DigitalSpy - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 12:28 PM PST

DigitalSpy, one of my favorite UK TV and entertainment news sites, has been bought by Hachette Filipacchi U.K., part of the French media giant Lagardere. The financial details were not…

Quaero Vs. Google: The Search Equivalent of Airbus Vs. Boeing? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 25 Mar 2008 09:57 AM PST

Europe’s internet search project—Quaero—has gotten a lot of flak for taking government money to create an alternative to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The noise level has only increased after the EU…

Dow Jones Newswires Switches Partners; Will Distribute AFP, Not AP - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 18 Mar 2008 07:28 PM PST

Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) and the Associated Press are ending a longstanding distribution and resource-sharing agreement. Instead, Dow Jones Newswires will distribute stories from Agence France-Presse. DJ has been sharing…

Majority Sharehholder Infogrames Offers To Buy Atari - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 06 Mar 2008 06:54 PM PST

The Atari saga continues, as its biggest shareholder Infogrames, the French video games company, has offered to buy the rest of the company for $1.68 a share. This is a…

Lagardere Takes Majority In French Women’s Online Publisher Doctissimo, For $109M - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 22 Feb 2008 09:19 AM PST

French media group Lagardere is buying a 53.38 percent stake in the French online publisher for women’s content Doctissimo from its founders, for a total of about $109 million. The…

French Radio Station Skyrock Founder Wants To Sell Online Op To Fund Buyback: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 06 Dec 2007 06:36 PM PST

From our sister site paidContent:UK: French radio station Skyrock is looking to sell off its highly successful online operation, according to French magazine Challenge. The pop music station was founded…

Vivendi Games Merging With Activision To Create New Pure-Play Video Game; Valued At $18.9 Billion - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 02 Dec 2007 11:07 AM PST

Vivendi (EPA: VIV) SA and Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) announced plans for a merger valued at $18.9 billion that would bring together Guitar Hero, Spider-Man X-Men, and World of Warcraft, among…

AFP Buys Stake In Cit-J Platform Scooplive, Offers To Media As White Label - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 Nov 2007 07:47 AM PST

Newswire Agence France Press (AFP) has bought a minority stake in Scooplive, a French citizen journalism portal that gives contributors commission on contributions sold to news media. The size of…

Apple Marketing Whiz Talks iPod, iPhone, International Growth - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:28 PM PST

Even icons need marketing. Greg Joswiak, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) marketing whiz working with the iPod and the iPhone, talked with Fortune’s Jon Fortt recently about the upcoming developer’s kit…

French Audience Researcher Mediametrie Aims For Portable Tracking Of Across Media - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 26 Nov 2007 08:15 AM PST

French audience survey company Médiamétrie is entering the race to capture data tracking consumers’ complete media usage habits. In early 2008, the company will begin expanding its ratings coverage with…

France To Disconnect Online Pirates; DRM Restrictions Might Go - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 23 Nov 2007 10:36 AM PST

From our sister site paidContent:UK: If US digital liberties campaigners think they’ve got it bad with an RIAA so active in lobbying digital copyright policy, wait until they hear about…

Earnings: Vivendi Plans Entertainment Portal; Universal Slides Despite Digital Doubling - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 14 Nov 2007 02:49 PM PST

Vivendi (EPA: VIV) will this week test a “content and services platform” website that, whilst secretive, could be a direct-to-consumer online TV outlet. “Zaoza”, “a major project”, will be “a…

Audiovox to Buy Thomson Music/Video Business, Including RCA Brand; Includes MP3 players - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 17 Oct 2007 09:08 AM PST

Consumer electronics firm Audiovox is buying French electronics maker Thomson’s non-European audio video business for $19.7 million. The sale includes the once-storied RCA brand, and includes DVD and MP3 players,…

Now It’s Really Official: Apple And Orange Announce IPhone Partnership In France - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 16 Oct 2007 03:43 PM PST

The delayed announcement of Orange selling the iPhone in France has finally come through—much the same details as in Germany (399 euros (US$565)) and rumors of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) getting…

Apple’s Disagreement With Orange, IPhone Hackers - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 27 Sep 2007 07:50 PM PST

This weeks iPhone news doesn’t compliment Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as much as previously… for starters, the (supposedly official) announcement of Orange distributing Apple’s handset in France has been stalled over…

EyeWonder Buys German Interactive Ad and Streaming Firm Vendi - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 24 Sep 2007 11:48 PM PST

EyeWonder, the Atlanta, U.S.-based developer of rich media and digital video solutions for online ads, has acquired Cologne, Germany-based Vendi Interactive, the digital interactive ad firm and vendor of online-streaming…

IPhone To Be Offered By Orange In France - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 20 Sep 2007 06:13 AM PST

As expected, France Telecom’s (NYSE: FTE) mobile unit Orange will offer the iPhone in France, and for once the source isn’t anonymous: Thomson Financial is reporting it from CEO Didier…

Google Plants Itself Behind International Privacy Framework - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 14 Sep 2007 05:51 AM PST

After months of European criticism of its privacy policies and as it crosses fingers the US Federal Trade Commission will green-light its DoubleClick acquisition despite similar concerns, Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) is…

European Business Social Net Viadeo Gets $6.8 Million For Asian Expansion - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 31 Aug 2007 09:21 AM PST

Viadeo, a pan-European LinkedIn clone based in France, has raised a EUR 5 million ($6.8 million0 investment to be used to fund Asian expansion, reports NetEco (via AC). The round…

Earnings: Vivendi Up As Music Downloads Double, Games Grow 91.9 Percent - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 30 Aug 2007 11:55 PM PST

French media conglomerate Vivendi (EPA:VIV) posted H1 earnings of EUR 2.6 billion ($3.54 billion), 10.6 percent better than the same period last year, helped by music downloads and the wild…

The Race of Also-Rans: French Video Sharing Site Dailymotion Raises $34 Million; More To Come - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 30 Aug 2007 03:45 PM PST

If Veoh can raise $25 million, and Metacafe can up the stake to $30 million, then why not Dailymotion? The France-based online video sharing site has raised $34 million in…