Ingrid Lunden
Nov 9, 2011 2:00 AM
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are, at least in part, taking somewhat different paths in their search for fresh revenues: Vodafone is increasingly looking at its investments in emerging markets,…
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Robert Andrews
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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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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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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