UK mobile voice-to-SMS provider Spinvox recently won business with Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) in Latin America. It’s easily its biggest carrier deal so far. Any more like that, though, the company may need new growth finance…

“You’ve got to remember that if I get another two or three deals like this—which will inevitably happen in the next few months—I’m going to have to scale up my business to support that,” co-founder Daniel Doulton told me.

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The search for a new CEO for also-ran online video site Dailymotion has ended, Cédric Tournay (pictured) agreeing to take the reins of the Paris-based site, the company said in an e-mailed announcement. Tournay is the former CEO of European health portal Doctissimo. He replaces the company’s interim head, Ian Brotherston, who in turn stepped in for Mark Zaleski in April. Zaleski was moved over to the role of non-executive chairman and was charged with heading up international operations. With Tournay’s at the helm, Brotherston, a former BT (NYSE: BT) and AOL (NYSE: TWX) exec, will now manage Dailymotion’s EVP International Strategy. Dailymotion has raised a big $34 million round in late 2007, to expand into U.S., but things haven’t gone well for the site stateside, mirroring the woes of the online video industry. According to a French newsletter Stratégies, Dailymotion’s 2008 revenue at €12.5 million ($16.2 million)—that’s big in France, I hear—and reports have suggested it is looking to raise more money.

Book publisher Penguin’s digital director Genevieve Shore is being promoted to digital strategy director for the whole of parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO). Shore joined Penguin in 2002 and had led its digital operations, including its ebook strategy, for the last two years, Publishers Weekly says.

In a group as diverse as Pearson, Shore will have oversight over digital strategy for FT.com, Penguin books and the whole of Pearson’s large education publishing efforts.

The notion of personalised, print-on-demand newspapers is still firmly on the drawing board at the popular publishers. But one little startup is hoping DIY community publishers might still be interested.

Currently in beta, Newspaper Club is developing an online system to let people lay up their own news titles - not for the screen, but for print. It’s got an unknown amount of 4iP money to “help people make their own newspapers” - targeting not the big nationals or regionals but “individuals, communities, clubs, societies, companies, friends, gangs - you know; people”. Here’s a pilot copy made for the BBC.

When Independent New & Media said it wanted to offload €100 million in “non-core” media assets to help its debt burden, it seems it didn’t have The Independent titles in mind. INM has sold a 7.3 percent stake in Indian publisher Jagran Prakashan, which owns the country’s most read daily newspaper Dainik Jagran, after already selling businesses in New Zealand. Reports persistently link Russian billionaire and Evening Standard proprietor Alexander Lebedev to a bid for the loss-making Indie, but despite talks taking place over the last 12 months a firm offer has yet to emerge. More on the Indian sale at our sister site Contentsutra.com...

State-funded broadcasters can spend their money to launch online services - as long as new services pass the same public value tests applied to TV and radio equivalents, says the European Commission.

Right now, EC rules say public service broadcasters can be state-funded - but these broadcasters’ online expansionism has attracted complaints about unfairness from commercial rivals.

The crowded UK mobile market could be about to get a bit smaller, according to several reports that say a handful of networks are interested in buying Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile UK network, the country’s troubled, fourth largest network. Guardian.co.uk, Reuters, Times Online and others all put various names in from—from Orange to Vodafone to O2. DT itself has previously denied rumors that it’s seeking a buyer for T-Mobile, while a spokesman for Telefonica-owned O2, thought to be a favorite in what some newspapers are calling a “bidding war”, told us that the reports were based on speculation but added that the company continues to “monitor the situation with interest.”

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Telefonica-owned O2 has won the exclusive UK distribution rights for the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre smartphone, according to a report from Guardian.co.uk, which says an announcement is due next week. Reports have linked the two companies to a UK tie-up for the some time and it would be quite a coup for the Spanish-owned company, which would be the exclusive seller of both the Pre and Apple’s iPhone in a key smartphone market.

A new network has formed to try again at creating a UK blog enterprise of any scale. BeautyAndTheDirt.com editor Krista Madden has started Handpicked Media, focusing on beauty, style, entertainment, food, art and culture.

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Northcliffe Media has launched Local People, an ad-funded local community publishing platform that mixes area-specific business directories and social networking elements. Still in its pilot stage, 20 sites are live now and 30 more will be online by the end of the month—all are based in the south-west of England and focus on communities of between 10,000 and 50,000 people.

Italy’s diverse social network, mobile and community operator Dada has resumed its journey on the M&A trail, buying 51 percent of Milan Stock Exchange-listed casual web games publisher Fueps for €1.36 million.

We knew Russia’s online media were exploding; now comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data shows the country’s internet users visit social networking sites more than anyone else in the world - an average of 6.6 hours and 1,307 pages per visitor per month. Release.