Stories about: Bertelsmann

The French and German partners involved in a consortium developing future search technologies, Quaero, went their separate ways because of differences over technology, according to senior officials at the French agency funding the research.

Lots of companies these days are stretching their hardware and energy dollars by consolidating print, file, DNS, and Web servers on virtualization platforms such as VMware. But not many companies boast of running their entire production infrastructure on virtual machines. An exception is Arvato Mobile, a division of Bertelsmann that builds mobile solutions for network operators, media companies, and Internet portals and delivers digital entertainment content to consumers around the globe.

Microsoft's latest release of Internet Explorer will drive demand for internationalized domain names, according to industry experts who are predicting a sharp increase in sales of foreign language domain names. That's because IE 7 has built-in support for IDNs, as does Firefox 2.0, also released in October.

German media giant Bertelsmann AG has begun crafting plans to develop an entertainment-driven social networking Web site to compete with MySpace and other similar sites, a source familiar with the discussions said Monday.

AOL Time Warner Inc. (AOLTW) reported strong second quarter results Wednesday, aided by gains in its filmed entertainment and cable units.

Just one day before AOL Time Warner (AOLTW) is set to release its first quarter 2003 results, reports surfaced Tuesday that a government probe into the company's accounting practices has widened even further.

Federal investigators looking into America Online Inc.'s (AOL) accounting practices are now focusing on two advertising deals the company forged with German media giant Bertelsmann AG, which may result in AOL having to issue further restatements to its financial results.

Napster's final resting place will apparently be with digital media software provider Roxio Inc., which has agreed to acquire the remaining assets of the fallen peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file trading company for US$5 million in cash and 100,000 warrants to purchase Roxio common stock.

Bertelsmann AG is reassessing its e-commerce businesses across Europe. The company will withdraw from stand-alone e-commerce sites and concentrate on its offline book and music club businesses, and Web-based book and music clubs such as it runs in the U.K., it announced Tuesday.

A U.S. court has blocked the sale of the Napster online music service to German music giant, Bertelsmann AG.

Five major record companies have sued four of the biggest ISPs (Internet service providers) in a U.S. district court in an attempt to stop what the record companies say is blatant copyright infringements occurring at a music Web site registered in China.