Posts Tagged with ‘europe’

Microsoft has just announced that the software giant is buying Greenfield Online, owner of European network of price comparison, shopping and consumer review websites Ciao. The acquisition is for approximately $486 million so this makes it the most expensive purchase for Microsoft.
What Ciao offers to its users is comprehensive search for products and prices based on up-to-date price information from thousands of online merchants along with reviews of the products by other users. A total number of reviews generated to [...]

There is internet outside of the Silicon Valley - and here is another proof. comScore issued another press release about European internet audience and its immense growth over the year since June 2007. The released information includes various figures demonstrating changes in the number of internet users in 16 countries comScore tracks for its World Metrix. comScore only counts users accessing the web from home or office computers aged 15 and higher and excludes traffic from public-access computers and mobile [...]

We have already covered the new European web 2.0 conference Plugg on Profy. I would like to remind you that Plugg is a conference that is intended to show the European perspective on web 2.0. The first edition of the event will take place in Brussels on March, 19. It is also important to mention that Plugg will not only be the place to meet the most interesting web personalities in Europe but also it will host a competition for [...]

I am a firm believer in the idea of competition. I think that without competition the market leaders will freeze and never grow further. This is true for all the industries and all the fields. That is why today I am happy to announce that Profy is a media partner of the new European web conference - Plugg. Plugg is intended to show the European perspective on Web 2.0. The one day event will take place in Brussels on March [...]

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. (Too bad, though. It sure would’ve been good to see the American media juggle that ball a tad bit more.) Pakistan? Nah. The year was [...]

Yesterday, Amazon let known its establishment of a partnership between itself and the European startup SellABand. The association it will have with SellABand is simple: it will sell music released by artists developed through the independent service.
Why do we share this piece of information with you? Well, as many already know, Amazon several months ago unveiled its long-awaited music download service, appropriately named AmazonMP3. It was generally hailed by the blogosphere as welcome competition to Apple’s dominant iTunes [...]

Skype has for a while shown to maintain just a small piece of itself in the world of wireless communications, what with its relatively lackluster sales of Skype-specific handsets (think Netgear, Philips, and SMC VoIP devices). Now the eBay-owned company is set to enter into the great big sea of cordless chatter with its announcement of the impending debut of its first cellular-network-backed handset in a new partnership with the international cellular network, 3.
The device, to be made available on [...]

Ever heard of FON? It?s a WiFi network, built, wonderfully enough, by individual consumers and small businesses in Europe and many other parts of the world.
It works on a tiered system of paid and free access. If people opt in to become a ?Fonero? and set up a FON account and hotspot of their own, they can get free access from any other FON hotspot in the world. If one doesn?t complete all aforementioned introductory steps, one can still [...]

Dailymotion, once a newsmaker solely for its hand in the illicit proliferation of copyrighted content, has in recent months (or is it years?) made great headway to cast the image of its former self aside and put its best, non-illegal foot forward, using its records of viewer numbers, among other figures, to attract legitimate licensing deals and to secure very significant sums of funding.
The company revealed this last Friday, August 31, that in its second round of VC solicitations [...]