Global operator strategies - 13/01/07

Vivendi (France) continues to claim that under the recent ruling by the Austrian Supreme Court, DT must return either the cash or the shares that the German telco bought from the Polish power conglomerate, Elektrim. The game is worth €2bn.

Yahoo is buying social network MyBlogLog, and Akimbo, a video on demand service.

FT (France) will drop fixed-to-mobile call tariffs by about 12% from January 18.

Europe is sponsoring a new multimedia search engine project, called PHAROS, and would invest some €11m in the development. Quid of other European project Quaero and Thesus?

eBay is buying online ticket reseller StubHub for $300m in cash.

Venezuela will nationalize back the local incumbent CANTV.