Newspaper Innovation (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
French media tycoon Vincent Bolloré expanded his media empire with public opinion research firm CSA. Bolloré already owned 40% and bought the remaining 60% last week. Bolloré started building his media group with commercial TV station Direct8, and also owns free dailies DirectMatin (together with Le Monde), DirectSoir and BretagnePlus. Bolloré also has stakes in advertising...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
French Internet service provider Free and Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports.
InformationWeek - All Stories (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
French Internet service provider Free and Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
PARIS (Reuters) - French Internet service provider Free and Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
PARIS (Reuters) - French Internet service provider Free and Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... the middle of plans to raise €100m through a share offering.Prospective investors include Vincent Bolloré, a French billionaire with whom Pininfarina has an electric car venture, and Ratan Tata, chairman of the Indian group, who was in Turin just two weeks ago.In its heyday, Pininfarina became immortalised in film with the restyled 1953 Nash Healey roadster featuring in the Adventures of...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... is set to be reduced to around 30%, however, with - Piero Ferrari, French industrialist Vincent Bollore and Ratan Tata - providing a much-needed cash injection to expand the firm and take it into the 21st century. Upcoming Pininfarina projects include development and assembly of an in partnership with the Bollore Group, and establishment of a design, research and development centre...
Newspaper Innovation (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
In the July newsletter: German free daily plans Launches in Argentina, the US, Brazil, Greece Top 10 North-American free dailies Circulation data on the Netherlands & Portugal Readership in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Luxembourg Metro’s 2008 outlook and strategy Bolloré’s media empire New legislation in Sweden and Romania Ownership changes in Denmark 30 years of free Aspen Daily...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... planning to cut that stake to 30 percent with the sale of $155 million worth of shares to Vincent Bollore and Tata Motors Ltd. of India. "The market is now speculating about a potential sale of the company," Italian investment manager Luca Sega told Bloomberg. Another unnamed trader told Reuters "the market thinks that ownership change will speed up." The company's stock surged so fast -...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
In French business circles l’activisme is almost a dirty word. Activists are seen as short-term asset-strippers trying to make a quick return. In the past a handful of wealthy individuals, such as Vincent Bolloré, a billionaire industrialist, mounted campaigns against companies. But the phenomenon of investment funds taking large stakes in big, well-known companies is a new one. Managers used...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Speculation that Google is working with French ISPs to build out a Gallic WiMax network has folks at Fierce Wireless wondering if Google may push open broadband overseas by investing in WiMax deployments. They point to a report in a French paper that says Google has teamed up with Illiad-owned ISP Free ( Om loves these guys ) and Bollore Group’s Bollore Telecom, which own licenses to...
M I S C E L L A N E O U S (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Having trouble viewing this mail? Click here Good afternoon, Today's Headlines New iPhone to sell for $599-$699 without contract Microsoft reportedly to cut price of Xbox 360 to $299 LVMH wins compensation from eBay over counterfeits Free, Bollore in talks with Google over WiMax: paper Service lets drivers lock in gasoline prices Judge says no to Akamai request for Limelight ban Game makers...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
... previewing Pininfarina's upcoming . This EV, developed in partnership with battery specialists Bollore, will be a four-seater supermini costing from around £12,000. Pininfarina promises 155 miles between recharges; the car will go into production in 2010 at its facility in San Giorgio, Italy.
