Germany

Despite Being Rebuffed By TNS, WPP Continues To Hold On; Higher Offer Expected - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 06 May 2008 08:27 AM PST

Although WPP Group’s $1.9 billion offer to acquire audience researcher Taylor Nelson Sofres was rejected over the the weekend, the UK ad holding firm is still pressing the TNS’ board…

Audience Measurement Firm TNS Rejects WPP’s $1.9 Billion Offer - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 05 May 2008 06:07 AM PST

Audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres has rejected WPP Group’s $1.9 billion (£1 billion) offer as “opportunistic” and undervaluing the company, telegraph.co.uk reported. TNS has been trying to merge with…

Bertelsmann 07 Revs Fall 2.8 Percent; Considers Sale Of Direct Group Unit - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 18 Mar 2008 05:21 AM PST

German media group Bertelsmann has announced full-year 2007 revenues of $29.6 billion, a 2.8 percent decrease from $30.4 billion in the previous year. Due to various charges this year, including…

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European Ad Firm AdLink For Sale; Assigns Morgan Stanley For Possible U.S. Sale: Report - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 24 Feb 2008 12:36 PM PST

European online advertising network and marketing firm AdLink Group, part of Germany’s ISP firm United Internet, has been put up for sale, possibly to a U.S.-based company, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine…

@ MWC: EMI To Sell DRM-Free Mobile Music Through Jamba - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 12 Feb 2008 06:18 PM PST

EMI has licensed Jamba to provide what the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Verisign-owned mobile entertainment JV says is the label’s first DRM-free repertoire in Europe to cross both mobile…

FT Sells Off Rest Of German Edition To Focus On Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 30 Jan 2008 09:37 AM PST

Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has confirmed the sale of its 50 percent stake in FT Deutschland to Hamburg-based magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which already owned the other half. The deal…

Broadband Content Bits: MTVN; YouNewsTV; Reuters-Newscom; YouTube - 2 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 25 Jan 2008 02:23 PM PST

-- MTVN’s LogoOnline unveils vlogs: MTVN’s (NYSE: VIA) LogoOnline has created 15 video blogs that the MTVN unit plans to run on its federated sites and distribution network, which includes…

Facebook Gets Investment From German Online Entrepreneurs Samwer Brothers; Between $10M-$15M - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 15 Jan 2008 11:03 AM PST

Updated below: Facebook is continuing to raise money, though this one seems to be a relatively smaller amount and mainly strategic for European expansion: it has taken an undisclosed amount…

Sony BMG Joining Amazon Music Store; Final Major To Try DRM-Free: Report - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jan 2008 09:02 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG will join EMI, Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) in selling music through Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) MP3 store, making it…

Interview: Lee Fenton, COO, Jamba: Focusing On Europe, Music, Simpsons - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 30 Nov 2007 10:39 AM PST

News Corp and Verisign’s Jamba mobile content JV will base its CEO in Berlin, become MySpace’s m-commerce facilitator in six European countries and push its new mobile/desktop music store out…

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…

Axel Springer To Buy Rest Of Stake in Germany’s Biggest Portal Bild.T-Online: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 26 Oct 2007 01:01 AM PST

Axel Springer, one of the biggest media companies in Germany/Europe, is planning to buy Deutsche Telekom’s (NYSE: DT) 37 percent stake in Bild.T-Online that it does not own yet, reports…

eBay Buys German Auction Site Afterbuy.com - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 04 Oct 2007 05:28 AM PST

eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has acquired ViA-Online GmbH, the German auction management software developer that operates Afterbuy.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The addition of Afterbuy gives eBay the…

Apple iPhone’s German Deal Is With T-Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Wed 19 Sep 2007 04:38 AM PST

Today, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) train made a stop in Berlin, where CEO Steve Jobs and T-Mobile executives officially announced what everyone had already expected: T-Mobile will be the exclusive…

Deutsche Telekom Buying Online Firm Immobilienscout24; Reported $500M - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 16 Sep 2007 10:08 AM PST

Update: The deal has been announced, and DT is raising its ImmobilienScout24 stake to 99.3 percent from 33.1 percent. and is paying 357 million Euros. From our new site paidContent:UK:…

Germany’s Hubert Invests In Seed’s ScienceBlogs; Launching Local Version - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 14 Sep 2007 05:30 AM PST

German media group Hubert Burda has bought a minority stake in New York-based science publisher Seed Media Group to bring its ScienceBlogs network to Europe. Launched in 2006, ScienceBlogs is…

Germany’s EM.Sport Media Buys, Sells And Launches To Up Web 2.0 Activity - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 10 Sep 2007 09:21 PM PST

Germany’s EM.Sport Media (FRA:EV4) is getting more serious about online content. Amongst a series of announcements made in Munich this morning, the company said it is planning “significant growth” through…

Bertelsmann Posts $69.4 Million Loss After Napster Litigation Payouts; Reorganizes D2C Group - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 04 Sep 2007 02:56 AM PST

Bertelsmann’s (FRA: BTG4) Napster settlements with four music publishers—which are thought to have amounted to some $400 million—have resulted in the German media group reporting a first-half net loss of…

ProSiebenSat Buys Remaining Stake In German Video Sharing Site MyVideo For $26 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 02 Sep 2007 05:55 PM PST

ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Germany’s largest commercial TV broadcaster, has bought 70 percent of MyVideo.de, a German video sharing site that it already had a 30 percent stake in, thereby buying out…

Sony Unveils PS3 Digital TV Tuner/PVR; Works With PSP Handheld - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 23 Aug 2007 03:53 AM PST

Sony will release a digital terrestrial TV tuner and PVR for the Playstation 3 in Europe early in 2008, SCEE announced at the Leipzeig Games Conference. PlayTV will combine two…

ProSiebenSat.1 Restructures; Forms Content Group; Buys Online Advice Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 22 Aug 2007 11:41 AM PST

German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has reported it Q2 revenues, and has also restructured itself as a pan-European group following its acquisition of SBS Broadcasting Group. It had revenues $117.8 million in…

Yahoo Buys Munich-based Mobile Marketer Actionality - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 21 Aug 2007 10:47 AM PST

Update: This was reported by WSJ a months ago buried inside a Google-focused story. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has bought Munich-based mobile marketing firm Actionality earlier this month, Mobile Entertainment reports.…

Accel Invests In German Online Game World Maker Gameforge - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 16 Aug 2007 12:49 AM PST

German MMPOG maker Gameforge has received and undisclosed amount of venture funding from Accel Partners. The Karlsruhe-based outfit’s website claims around four million active users of its 12 titles, which…

German Browser-Game Maker Northworks Gets Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 15 Aug 2007 02:44 PM PST

Hamburg-based browser-games developer Northworks has received an undisclosed amount of funding, Alarm:Clock Euro reported. High Tech Grunderfonds, with ICS Holding, provided the funding for Northworks, which runs the British soccer/football…

German Travel Community Site TripsByTrips Receives Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 08 Aug 2007 11:23 AM PST

TripsByTips, a German-language community site focusing on travel, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Burda Digital Ventures. Like most of the other recent travel sites that have been…