Samsung has so far managed to dampen any damaging rulings or injunctions from Apple’s legal actions in Europe against its Galaxy products; but it is also fighting another fire further afield in Australia… Tweet This Post

Russian portal Rambler and magazine publisher Afisha, which were last year merged by their owner, want to buy the technology news site Compulenta, Roem reports. Afisha-Rambler has submitted its proposal to the publisher… Tweet This Post

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… Tweet This Post

At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering with a popular game developer on the successful Angry Birds Rio… Tweet This Post

Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new—Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie venture yet, the latest in a series of moves to mine the most ore possible from its rich catalog… Tweet This Post

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 million and $85 million… Tweet [...]

Federal regulators in the U.S. are over it, but Google’s Street View privacy gaffe continues to produce headaches in the Europe. The long journey appears to be nearing an end, but one with a price tag… Tweet This Post

Europe has lagged behind the U.S. in widespread adoption of e-books, but a new report suggests that they are finally taking off. The e-book market in Western Europe grew by 400 percent in 2010, a new report finds… Tweet This Post

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has been ordered to weaken its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV after an investigation by the Competition Commission. In a provisional decision published on Friday morning, the commission said that BSkyB’s contracts with the six major Hollywood studios present a significant barrier to entry to potential competitors, including BT (NYSE: BT) [...]

The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell them off to focus more on Education, its real growth engine of the moment? That seems to be the opinion of at least some analysts at Bernstein Research, which has [...]

An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its articles: a blogger says the online site for the newspaper has used her photographs, even after correspondence showed that the Mail editors failed to meet her terms for usage… Tweet This [...]

The Daily Mail is more than happy for people to share links to articles from its site—it’s an important part of it maintaining its position as a hugely popular news destination—but proxy sites that don’t link back to the Mail itself? That’s a whole different story… Tweet This Post