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Re:Microsoft Is Interested in Buying Stake in Dailymotion by ToastyMallows on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:17AM (#7297681)
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.

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Re:Microsoft Is Interested in Buying Stake in Dailymotion by nolok on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @02:19PM (#7299773)
Government 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...

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Re:Microsoft Is Interested in Buying Stake in Dailymotion by untog on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:51AM (#7297854)
It's interesting that they're talking specifically about international expansion, though. Maybe they'll just set up DailyMotion US, LLC.
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