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Skyrock.com’s Sale Hampered By Crunch, Confident Will Survive ‘Dark Days’

Oct 26, 2008 2:56 PM

French teen blog platform Skyrock.com still hasn’t found a buyer after putting itself up for sale in June, and the CEO admits the current economic situation may hamper the plan. Pierre Bellanger told me: “We haven’t changed our mind about the pertinence of an industrial integration. It will occur certainly,…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Countries, Europe, France, skyrock

Facebook Gains In France, Still Trails Far Behind Skyrock

Robert Andrews

Jul 4, 2008 9:43 AM

All it takes, conventional wisdom goes, for the big US social networks to overcome the European upstarts is to start offering themselves in languages other than English. So what exactly does a localisation do for the bottom line? Nearly one million more users a month, if you’re Facebook and the…

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Posted In: Social Media, Companies, Facebook, Countries, Europe, France, skyrock

French Social Net Skyrock.com Seeking Sale To Telco, Talks Ongoing

Robert Andrews

Jun 10, 2008 8:39 AM

Skyrock.com, one of the world’s largest social networks, is talking with several suitors about a sale, as it nears divestment from its partner radio station’s holding company, paidContent:UK has learned. Orbus CEO Pierre Bellanger told me the interactive business, which sits alongside the Skyrock teen station he started in 1985,…

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Posted In: Social Media, Countries, Europe, France, pierre bellanger, skyrock