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Kind of a misleading title, Microsoft is interested, it hasn't been approved at all. > In April 2013, Yahoo was about to acquire 75 percent of Dailymotion for
by ToastyMallows 13y ago
Kind of a misleading title, Microsoft is interested, it hasn't been approved at all.
> In April 2013, Yahoo was about to acquire 75 percent of Dailymotion for $200 million. Yet, the French government suspended the deal as the state still owns 27 percent of Orange. “Montebourg didn’t want to let it go to the Americans,” a source told TechCrunch at the time — Arnaud Montebourg is the French Minister of Industrial Renewal.
Who knows, the same thing could happen this time.
Looks like Microsoft is looking for it's own YouTube.
- untog 13y agoIt's interesting that they're talking specifically about international expansion, though. Maybe they'll just set up DailyMotion US, LLC.
- nolok 13y agoGovernment didn't want to sell, but the current talk with Microsoft is explicitly about Orange keeping majority ownership but finding an international partner. Source in french: http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2014/02/25/orange-confirme-discuter-avec-microsoft-d-une-cession-partielle-de-dailymotion_4372864_651865.html http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2014/02/25/orange...