David Kaplan
Jan 25, 2010 8:26 AM
Cable operator Liberty Global is selling off its 37.8 stake in Japanese broadband provider Jupiter Telecommunications to wireless operator KDDI Corporation for $4 billion. The deal is part of a plan by Liberty Global, which is controlled by John Malone, to refocus its concentration on Europe. Exiting the Japanese market…
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Patrick Smith
Nov 20, 2008 7:56 AM
The global communications market reached £876 billion in revenue last year with the UK contributing £39 billion or 4.4 percent of that, the fourth largest market behind the US, Japan and Germany. That’s according to media regulator Ofcom, which has released its third international communications market report, which takes in…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 19, 2007 4:22 AM
At a Paris press conference, YouTube unveiled localized versions for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Holland, Poland, Spain and the UK (Germany is missing). Initially, the sites get translated homepages, search functions and interfaces. Future stages, however, will involve narrowing ratings and comments, as well as the main video, channel,…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 5, 2007 8:18 AM
Both Baidu and Alibaba are soon to open up in Europe, according to Telegraph.co.uk. Sans sourcing, the paper says Baidu, China’s largest search engine and now the world’s fifth most popular, will announce expansion plans during a London conference later this month. Meanwhile, Alibaba Group, which operates both B2B and…
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David Kaplan
Jan 15, 2007 9:07 AM
In a bid to launch its game search engine in the US, German-Japanese vertical search engine Wazap has raised $7.9 million in a second round of funding led by Partech International, with participation from Wellington Partners, Venturebeat reports. The start-up has launched in China and plans its US debut next…
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Staci D. Kramer
Nov 14, 2006 11:13 AM
MySpace would likely sell for $6 billion now, News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch told Australian investors today. Details of the meeting come from UBS analyst Aryeh Bourkoff in a lengthy note. Murdoch missed the quarterly earnings call last week so his Australian meetings are a chance to hear…
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