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Troubled Yahoo Europe Hires New Marketing VP

Orange is a huge communications corporation.  Research In Motion is a top wireless device company.  And now Kristof Fahy has moved on from those places of business to Yahoo Europe, where he’ll serve as vice president of marketing.

France, Sweden Top Europe In Blog, Internet Use

I’ve seen a lot of nationalities get insulted online, and no one seems to detect and respond to those insults as quickly as the French.  Now I know why: according to a new Forrester Research study, young French Internet users are more likely than just about anyone else in Europe to visit a blog.

(Parts Of) Yahoo Europe Given Ultimatum

About two months ago, we reported that Google was interested in hiring a lot of new European employees.  Now there's word that Yahoo's moving in the opposite direction; some European departments will have to either improve their performance or be sold or shut down.

Google Transit Makes Itself Useful In Europe

Public transportation doesn’t seem too tempting when you’ve got a car in the garage.  But if you’re on vacation in another country, those sorts of systems start to look quite nice, and so we welcome the introduction of Google Transit trip planner for Europe.

Half Of European Airline Sites Misleading

Around 200 European airline Web sites are misleading the public, according to a study by the European Commission.

U.K. Tops Social Networking Use In Europe

According to comScore, the United Kingdom is the top in Europe, with 24.9 million unique visitors, which is 78 percent of the total U.K. online population belonging to social networks. This is new data that comScore retrieved via its Segment Metrix H/M/L analytical tool which was released just last month. The total social networking community in Europe was 127.3 million unique visitors in August. This is an amazing 56 percent of the Europe's Internet user base.

Google Street View Spreads To Europe?

Four days ago, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel wrote a blog post about Street View and respecting other countries’ laws.  At the time, we believed his comments were directed at Canada.  But they may also apply to England; what appears to be one of Google Street View’s camera cars has been sighted in London.

Europe Braces For Google Buildup

In an article for the Financial Times, Maija Palmer said it all, writing, “Google is planning to expand its staff by a third, with most of the new hirings in Europe . . .”  But to add my editorial voice to the mix: holy crap.

SMS Ads Small In U.S., Big In Europe

Close to three-quarters of Western European mobile subscribers received a short message service (SMS) advertisement in July 2007, according to M: Metrics.

Europe Wants U.S. Based Microsoft To Pay

Microsoft has lost its appeal of a $690 million fine as set down by the European Commission for antitrust allegations against the software giant.