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Labels start making more money from streaming than downloads
Streaming is starting to overtake digital downloads as a source of revenue for independent labels, according to a new blog post from…
Read MorePioneering file hosting service RapidShare is shutting down
Pioneering file hosting service RapidShare is shutting down by the end of next month, according to a notice posted on the service’s website…
Read MoreBT agrees to $19B takeover of EE, paving way for close DT relationship
The negotiations are over: pending regulatory approval, BT will get back into the U.K.’s mobile scene in a big way by buying…
Read MoreFacebook faces fight in Europe over new privacy policy
Last week Facebook rolled out a new privacy policy that allows the sharing of data between its various services, such as Instagram…
Read MoreWeb inventor warns against zero-rating net neutrality threat
Zero-rating – where carriers charge nothing or very little for the data used by specific apps and web services – is a…
Read MoreGoogle to give all users clearer information about data use
Google has vowed to revise its privacy policy and account settings, in order to make it clearer to people what it does with…
Read MoreDutch and Slovenian regulators nail carriers over net neutrality
While the European Union dithers over EU-wide net neutrality, some European countries are marching on regardless. On Friday Slovenia’s regulators nailed carriers…
Read MoreRakuten’s Wuaki TV wants to expand to 10 more countries
European video streaming service Wuaki TV is getting ready to expand to 10 additional countries this year. Wuaki, which was acquired by…
Read MoreHutchison Whampoa hopes to buy O2 UK for $15 billion
The pairing-off of major U.K. telecommunications players continues: On Friday, Three’s Hong Kong owner, Hutchison Whampoa, said it was now in exclusive…
Read MoreThe problem with Uber’s European job promises
The newly humble Uber has made its pitch to city officials around Europe by promising the creation of “50,000 jobs” during 2015…
Read MoreEU response to free speech killings? More internet censorship
In the wake of this week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which began with the killing of 12 people at the offices of…
Read MoreApple raises minimum app prices in Europe, UK, and Canada
As Apple promised earlier this week, minimum prices in the iOS app store have increased in Canada, the U.K. and European countries…
Read MoreEuropeans have two weeks to return iTunes purchases for a refund
Apple has quietly introduced a 14-day return policy for iTunes, App Store, and iBooks purchases in several countries in Europe, according to 9to5Mac.…
Read MoreGoogle could face €15M privacy fine in the Netherlands
Google has been threatened with yet another fine in Europe over its cavalier approach to EU privacy laws. However, while previous fines…
Read MoreBT in talks to buy EE for $20 billion
BT, the company once known as British Telecom, said on Monday that it is now exclusively negotiating a possible £12.5 billion ($19.6…
Read MoreGoogle turns to France’s space agency for Project Loon expertise
Google isn’t the only one with a thing for balloons. The company announced a partnership with France’s space agency Thursday that will…
Read MoreGoogle axes News in Spain in response to royalty law
Google has decided to shut down Google News in Spain. The decision follows the passage of a law in July that obliges…
Read MoreEU digital chief tries to maintain single digital market momentum
European member states may be keen to water down current net neutrality proposals and push back against the centralization of radio spectrum…
Read MoreHow Europe could cut Google down to size without splitting it up
Google's EU search antitrust case is a complex beast that is being overloaded by vested interests. Competition commission Margrethe Vestager would be best advised to keep her solutions simple, and here are some suggestions for what those solutions might entail.…
Read MoreGoogle antitrust case: New EU competition chief wants fresh talks with complainants
Europe’s last antitrust chief, Joaquin Almunia, couldn’t settle his department’s four-year case against Google, keen though he was to do so. Now…
Read MoreNetflix is becoming part of the cable bundle in the U.K.
Netflix is becoming more and more like HBO: Customers of U.K. telco BT can now pay for the service with their monthly TV bill.…
Read MoreSalesforce opens first European data center in UK
Salesforce.com has taken the wraps off its first EU-sited data center in Slough, England, little more than a week after Amazon opened…
Read MoreRoku is coming to Germany, with some help from Sky
Roku will power Sky's German online video service, which just launched with streams of TV show episodes and Bundesliga matches.…
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