Ingrid Lunden
Oct 14, 2011 6:23 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) today finally got the keys to Skype, so to speak: the deal for Microsoft to buy the internet telephony giant for $8.5 billion formally closed. The deal was first announced in May but needed to pass successfully through regulatory approval in several major markets—most recently, Europe, just…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 19, 2011 8:38 AM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples of how its trying to diversify for a later day. It has bought the German Groupon clone Daily Deal and it has started rolling out its…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 1, 2011 9:28 AM
One more development today that shows the patent race—and the many millions of dollars that are going into defending and settling around them—is still in full stride. The Canadian company MOSAID has announced that it is picking up the management of some 2,000 patents belonging to Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 21, 2011 6:20 PM
While regulators have yet to give Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) the final approval to buy Skype, the Internet communications company is making some acquisitions of its own. Today, it announced that it will be acquiring GroupMe, a group messaging company, for an undisclosed sum a price reported to be between $50…
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Joe Mullin
May 25, 2011 7:57 PM
Today’s deadline day. Member states of the European Union are all supposed to have plans in place to change their laws so that most kinds of online data collection—including the simple placement of an electronic ‘cookie’—become ‘opt-in’ for consumers. But only two countries—Denmark and Estonia—have solid plans to create such…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 22, 2011 9:22 AM
Despite the big stories about the iPad 2 selling out in the U.S., and the question marks over how events in Japan might affect consumer electronics supplies, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is going ahead with its scheduled launch of the iPad 2 outside the U.S.
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Patrick Smith
Apr 30, 2009 2:28 AM
—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…
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Patrick Smith
Mar 18, 2009 5:44 AM
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:…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 9, 2007 1:16 PM
Republika Kobiet (Women’s Republic), a Polish lifestyle portal, has received an unspecified amount of funding from Luxembourg-based Mangrove (portfolio Skype, Piczo) and Poland’s own bmp Media Investors (via AC:Europe). The site was started by Hachette Filipacchi Polska CEO Jan DybczyDski, ex celeb mag Viva! editor Katarzyna Montgomery and former Bankier.pl…
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