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,…

Another mobile operator is taking a crack at the streaming music market: France Telecom’s Orange is partnering with Deezer—France’s answer to Spotify—to launch an exclusive mobile music service that will effectively be offered “free” to those who sign up for Orange’s premium, two-year service plans.

When the multinational operator France Telecom/Orange announced that it was taking an $80-million, 49-percent stake in the online video site Dailymotion earlier this year, it was obvious there were a lot of ways that relationship could be used on both sides. The question was whether a big, incumbent telco could…

When France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile merged forces to become Everything Everywhere in the UK, the promise was for scale and the cost benefits that come with that. The formula must be working for the companies—two weeks ago they announced they would extend the collaboration into other markets.…

Orange, the French telecoms operator, has entered into exclusive negotiations to take a 49 percent stake in the online video company Dailymotion, for €58.8 million ($80 million), giving the company a full valuation of $160 million. The deal should close in the coming months, and Orange will have the option…

Media recommendation engine The Filter said in February that it had signed on two more companies to its white-label recommendation service. Today, the Peter Gabriel-backed company tells us that one of them is Dailymotion, the France-based online video site. And we can report that the second deal, which will be…

—LoveFilm: Lesley Mackenzie is the new group digital officer for the film and game rental site. Her previous roles include CEO of now-defunct Project Kangaroo and director of channels and operations at BSkyB (NYSE: BSY). (Via NMA.) —Dailymotion: David Ripert has been promoted to the role of director, global content…

—Dailymotion app: The Paris-HQ’d video site has a new iPhone app - free with ads or $5.99/£3.49 for premium - plus a novel video upload feature for 3GS users. Dailymotion says it will announce IPTV carriage in the new year. —Time (NYSE: TWX) Out app: While Dailymotion does freemium, the…

As we reported, Dailymotion’s UK creative director Digby Lewis recently left the video site when it shaved 20 percent of its staff in a cost-cutting move. Now Digby’s resurfacing at the new online content operation started by ex Bebo chief Joanna Shields and Shine Group CEO Elisabeth Murdoch.

—Perform: Online sports video broadcaster and distributor Perform has taken over the display and video ad account for Football League Interactive (FLi) from BSkyB’s Sky Digital Media. Owned by the Football League, Fli handles the websites for 80 league clubs—Perform already runs 79 of those clubs’ paid-for VOD services through…

What will French VOD site Dailymotion use its recent €17 million ($25.5 million; £15.53 million) VC funding round for? To fund an ambitious plan to break the American market, increase audience across Europe and get its content on IPTV and mobile platforms. CEO Cédric Tournay told me in an interview:…

Correction: As the company and Atlas’ Fred Destin have pointed out to us (see his comment below), this is not a new funding round, as we originally reported, but a confirmation of the funding earlier this month, with an update on the price and who is was involved. Original: Exactly…

French video site Dailymotion, which had already raised $43.5 million since 2006, has now has to find another €15 million ($22.1 million), as the economics of playing second fiddle to overseas vid portals continue to look challenging. Twelve months ago, then CEO Mark Zaleski told me the site didn’t need…

Dailymotion’s Digby Lewis tells me about the video site’s new CEO, content strategy and being a new dad at C21’s Social Media Forum (here’s the video link)...

—ChannelFlip: Male-focused VOD site ChannelFlip.com has signed a content deal with Guardian.co.uk for its David Mitchell’s Soapbox videos, in which the Peep Show actor (pictured) gives his acerbic take on life. The videos—which have clocked up 1 million views over the 10 episodes so far—will now be shown on a…

French video site Dailymotion has now confirmed our report from Monday - that CEO Mark Zaleski (pictured) is being replaced by former BT (NYSE: BT) and Red Bee commercial director Ian Brotherston. A statement from the board says Zaleski “has resigned from his position with the company as CEO to…

French video site Dailymotion is appointing a new CEO to replace Mark Zaleski, we understand, and is said to be seeking new investment after reportedly failing to turn a profit. An announcement is expected later today… Zaleski, also chairman, will remain non-executive chairman and will lead international ops while Ian…

Dailymotion, the video site many call the “French YouTube”, has inked a deal to distribute US TV site Hulu’s material - but only in America. The deal sees the NBCU/News Corp (NYSE: NWS) JV gain a simple user profile on Dailymotion, through which it’s syndicating videos from its 40,000-strong library…

After securing a content deal with Dailymotion as producer of the London-based Raindance Film Festival, Jesse Vile has joined the video-sharing site as its “creative agent”, injecting some art-world kudos to its management. Vile’s job will be to manage the site’s community of indie film-makers and and get their work…