Big news from the little country of Holland today. The Dutch court in the Hague that has been hearing the case of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) versus Samsung for design infringements today sided with Apple and issued an EU-wide injunction on Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy smartphones. But Samsung lawyers appear to have…

There’s been a great deal of M&A deals getting done in the online advertising and analytics space this past year and a number of companies are working on getting their shopping out of the way before the end of the year. Two relatively small deals were announced this morning that…

More fuel getting thrown on the augmented reality flame: mobile augmented reality platform Layar, based in Holland, has raised a Series B round of €10 million ($14 million), from VCs led by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, and including existing investors Sunstone Capital and Prime Ventures. The funding comes on the…

German video advertising network Smartclip says it’s buying its way in to the Netherlands, acquiring a smaller Dutch vid advertiser Moon Broadcasting. We could tell you about Moon, but Smartclip has already redirected its website to its own. It’s creating its own Smartclip Benelux division out of the acquisition, led…

Print publishers can’t wait for iPad to hit the streets next month, perhaps so they can once again start producing info in a similar-looking format to their core products of yesteryear. NYT’s flagship app lit the blue touch paper for iPad, Wired also got in on the act early, both…

It calls itself “the ultimate BitTorrent source”, but P2P tracker Mininova has now removed almost all links to copyrighted content after complying with a cease-and-desist court ruling in August from Dutch entertainment rightsholder group Brein. As the site’s staff write in a blog post, only content uploaded via the site’s…

—Bebo TV: More original video content from the social network: its Originals division has launched a second, eight-week series of Meet the Freshers, presented by 18-year-old Tom Thurlow who previously fronted a Hollyoaks-themed Bebo series. The precocious Thurlow now produces the show via his production company Teen Star. Release, via…

As its hype curve rises and grows around the world, music service Spotify is locking out eager, enterprising users from outside the six countries in which it has launched so far. The service is only supposed to be available in Sweden, the UK, France, Spain, Finland and Norway, but users…

Private investment firm HIG Capital has taken a major stake in Dutch B2B publisher VNU Media, alongside majority shareholder, PE firm 3i. Reuters.com reports that the deal comes as part of a restructuring of VNU, the parent of Nielsen Media Research. VNU took on €200 million (£170 million, $288 million)…

—Funny Or Die: Online TV service Babelgum has got an exclusive, two-year license to distribute the comedy clips series on mobile, including developing an iPhone app, bundling the vids in to Babelgum’s apps and offering a Funny Or Die-branded area on Babelgum. —MetalHammer: Future Publishing’s UK metal music mag has…

—News International: Still keen to boost physical newspaper sales, News International has created a new head of retail strategy role: Katherine Challinor’s sole job is to make sure the company sells more copies of its four national titles. It’s no small task—only The Sunday Times enjoyed a circulation increase in…

Amsterdam-based sat-nav device developer TomTom is seeking €430 million (£366.6 million) through a rights issue and private share placement to solve its debt worries still lingering after its €2.9 billion acquisition of Tele Atlas in 2007. FT.com reports the Dutch firm’s CEO Harold Goddijn hopes the cash injection will lower…

A Google (NSDQ: GOOG) algorithm has managed to get a Dutch community news site successfully sued. Klup.nl, a network of user-edited news portals, was sued by a local BMW dealer, Zwartepoorte, because a Google search for Zwartepoorte + bankrupt returned a result for Klup.nl with this summary: “Full name: Zwartepoorte.…

—NBCU in Greece: NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has launched its Universal Channel on Greek telco OTE’s Conn-x IPTV service. Series like Flipping Out and Flashpoint will get national premieres on the channel. Via C21. —Geewa games: The Czech Republic-based social casual games provider has partnered with the country’s big Seznam.cz…

—The Filter: Peter Gabriel-backed music recommendation technology developer The Filter is moving into the DVD market. The company has signed up to provide Belgian online DVD home rental service DVDPost with its own movie recommendation widget. DVDPost has been running in France and the Benelux countries since 2002 and has…

Less than 24 hours after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced the departure of UK, Benelux and Ireland MD Dennis Woodside to become the company’s VP for The Americas, UK ad sales director Matt Brittin has been appointed as his replacement of sorts. Brittin joined two years ago from Trinity Mirror (LSE:…

Though much of it was probably raised before the credit crunch, there seems to be a good deal of VC money around considering we’re in recession. Online greeting-card maker Greetz has raised €7 million (£6.48 million) from Prime Technology Ventures and Skype backer ePlanet Ventures, according to thenextweb.com and Pehub.com.…

Dutch e-learning language start-up Myngle has raised €950,000 (£847,000) in the form of a loan from Rabobank, made possible through the Dutch government’s innovation program. The funding adds to the start-up’s €800,000 (£713,000) seed investment from the HenQ fund and private individuals. Techcrunch reports that the “marketplace for languages,” founded…

Utrecht-based holiday rating site Zoover has bought Dutch weather information company WeerOnline BV. Zoover claims more than 70 percent of Dutch travel operators use WeerOnline to check the weather and climate for their destinations and compile resort information, so it makes for the two companies become one. The pair now…