8 posts and columns on Max Colchester

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Full Tilt Rescue May Give Stake to Customers

in Commerce on October 4, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

A proposed rescue of Full Tilt Poker by a family-owned French investment company could involve offering equity stakes to some of the troubled website’s thousands of customers, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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France Télécom to Bid Adieu to Minitel

in Media on July 25, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Next year, Minitel—France’s precursor to the Internet—will finally meet its maker. For 30 years the toaster-sized screen weathered the Internet revolution.

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Selling Video Scoops Online

in News on March 18, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

French website Citizenside recently sold a grainy video of British fashion designer John Galliano conducting an anti-Semitic rant to news organizations around the world. Mr. Galliano lost his job, and Citizenside pocketed a six-figure bounty.

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Plastic Surgeon Figures in Google Face-Off in Spain

in News on March 7, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

In 1991, the Spanish newspaper El País published an article centered on a dispute between Madrid plastic surgeon Hugo Guidotti Russo and one of his patients over an allegedly botched breast surgery. The headline: “The Risk of Wanting to Be Slim.”

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Hearst Bids for Lagardère Magazines

in News on January 31, 2011 at 8:10 am PT

Hearst Corp. has agreed with Lagardère SCA to pay nearly $900 million for the French media conglomerate’s international magazine portfolio, betting that a bigger share of magazine readers is the antidote to an uncertain advertising forecast for print publications.

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Discounted E-Books Spark Outcry from French Shops

in News on September 24, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

For 30 years, Thierry Meaudre’s family bookshop has been protected from competition from big retailers, thanks to a law that bars heavy discounting on books. Now he is hoping the French government will protect him from a new threat: the electronic book.

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Google Wins EU Ruling on Ad Keywords

in News on March 23, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

The European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday that Google Inc. has the right to sell ads linked to the Louis Vuitton name and other famous brands, a landmark judgment that clears search engines of trademark liability in Europe and protects a crucial revenue stream.

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The French Get Lost in the Clouds Over a New Term in the Internet Age

in News on October 14, 2009 at 9:20 am PT

The word on the table that morning was “cloud computing.” To translate the English term for computing resources that can be accessed on demand on the Internet, a group of French experts had spent 18 months coming up with “informatique en nuage,” which literally means “computing in cloud.”