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Wednesday 24 January, 2001
TOP STORY:
* Yahoo CEO accused of justifying war crimes
WORTH REPEATING:
* Something big and ugly
BRIEFS:
* News highlights of the week
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TOP STORY
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Yahoo CEO accused of justifying war crimes
Timothy Koogle faces a criminal suit from a French group of Auschwitz
survivors for ambiguity toward the sale of Nazi-related goods
By Kristi Essick
It has already lost a high-profile court battle over the availability
of Nazi-related goods on its auction site in November, but Yahoo's
worries in France may be far from over - and this time the California
company's chief executive has been targeted.
A group called the Association Amicale des Déportés D'Auschwitz (AADA)
is expected to announce tomorrow that it is accusing Timothy Koogle,
CEO of Yahoo, with justifying war crimes against humanity and
collaboration with the enemy. The association's president, Henry
Bulawko, will present the case at a press conference in Paris.
Unlike the prior civil case brought against Yahoo by the League
Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the Jewish student group
UEJF, this case will take place in a criminal court. Mr Koogle faces
prosecution in the Tribunal Correctional de Paris and could face fines
or imprisonment if the plaintiffs win the case.
A Yahoo spokesperson said the company is unable to comment on legal
cases that have not yet been officially brought before the company.
AADA could not be reached for comment, but the lawyer who is
representing the plaintiff said the new lawsuit stems from the fact
that Yahoo has been ambiguous in its stance on Nazi-related goods.
Yahoo is currently fighting the November decision in a California
court on grounds that a US company should not have to comply with
French law. However, the company recently decided to stop the sale of
hate-related goods on its commercial Web sites.
Charles Korman, a lawyer at Korman, Mandell and Henass, the firm
representing AADA, said: "In the space of 15 days, Yahoo has engaged a
case in Santa Clara saying they should not be held liable to the
French judge's decision, then a few days later, they stopped the sale
of all Nazi goods. We find this very worrying."
Korman believes Yahoo decided to block hate-related goods to get out
of implementing the filtering system and to avoid paying fines, but
could turn around at any minute and allow the items to be posted
again. Targeting Koogle is a way to show the world that such ambiguity
is not to be tolerated, Korman said.
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WORTH REPEATING
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"Bogus practices are such a small part of adoption, but when it
happens it is big and ugly"
Peter Purtill, president of the US National Council for Adoption,
commenting on the Internet adoption scandal.
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BRIEFS
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LETSBUYIT LIVES ON: Last week a Dutch court gave the interim
management team of LetsBuyIt.com, the aggregate buying site which shut
its doors just after Christmas, just a few days to raise 4 million
euros of interim finance or face bankruptcy proceedings. On Tuesday it
was reported that 2.5 million euros of the necessary 4 million euros
had been secured. On Wednesday evening, reports indicated that funding
has indeed been secured and the company avoided bankruptcy.
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NET-ADOPTION ROW: The debate over Belinda and Kimberley, the twins
adopted via the Internet, has drawn in ISPs and their role in hosting
sites which contain material that contravenes English law. British
health authorities sent a reminder to the UK ISP trade association
stating that any material hosted by their members which is in breach
of the Adoption Act must be immediately removed. The association
responded with a statement saying: "ISPs... cannot act as the judiciary
in deciding the often very complex question of whether material is
legal."
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ORANGE FLOATS: France Telecom's mobile phone subsidiary Orange will
float 633 million shares - 13 per cent of its overall capital - on the
Paris and London exchanges on 12 February, valuing the company at
between 55.2 billion and 64.8 billion euros. Orange will use the money
raised to buy back the £11.3 billion (17.7 billion euros) France
Telecom shares now owned by Vodafone Airtouch. The flotation may also
allow Orange to acquire further companies and 3G-wireless licences
throughout Europe.
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SEARCH PARTY: The global First Tuesday network is attempting to raise
up to £500,000 (785,000 euros) to buy the name from owner Yazam, the
Israeli venture-capital fund. The Standard Europe discovered last week
that the fund is preparing to wind itself up, despite still having
considerable capital at its disposal. A number of other potential
suitors have also emerged, including conference organisers. But Julie
Meyer, one of the original gang of four that founded the networking
movement, has ruled herself out as a potential buyer.
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DT'S YEAR ZERO: Deutsche Telekom announced dismal results earlier this
week for 2000. The company has grown only 6 per cent organically in
the past 12 months and made operating profits of "basically zero" for
the year, the company said. Meanwhile, Deutsche Telekom's net debt has
increased 19 per cent to 56.4 billion euros, due to costs for
next-generation mobile licences and acquisitions, as well as stiff
competition in its fixed-line, mobile and Internet operations.
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YAHOO PAYS ITS WAY: With a slowdown in the online advertising market
looming, Yahoo Europe is looking to grow its bottom line in 2001 by
muscling in on new territory: building corporate intranets and online
payment systems. But it will be no pushover. Developing intranets is
already a crowed sector; typically the domain of software giants,
telcos and Web consultancies. A second team is developing a European
version of an online payment system called Yahoo Wallet, for those
consumers who would like to shop online but don't own a credit card.
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BANDWIDTH NARROWS: Pan-European telecom carriers are having to curb
their ambitions in a year that analysts predict will be the start of
the communications shakeout. Last week, FirstMark, Viatel and GTS
(Global TeleSystems) all announced they would cut their European
operations. A glut of bandwidth, a lack of demand and the bottleneck
of the "local loop" to homes and offices, meant a reversal of fortunes
last year. And to add to their woes, share prices were badly hit in
the tech slump and extra financing became hard to come by.
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TRACKING EM-TV: A surprise counter-bid for debt-ridden German
TV-rights trader EM-TV by a group of "international entrepreneurs" is
underway, according to the Financial Times Deutschland. The bidders
are reportedly linked to Bernie Ecclestone, who owns the Formula 1
racing business together with EM-TV. In December, rival German media
giant Kirch announced a complex deal that would have provided EM-TV
with much-needed cash.
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POWER CUT: The dotcom dustbin picked up two more European
business-to-consumer sites on Tuesday as electrical goods retailer
Intersaver and online gaming business Barrysworld.com closed their
doors. UK-based Intersaver, which launched just over a year ago, is
currently appointing receivers and its Web site has been taken down.
Barrysworld - which styled itself as "the power behind online gaming"
- posted an announcement on its site stating: "Basically, we have run
out of money..."
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BY THE NUMBERS
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Despite disappointing growth in the past, research by eMarketer
suggests that total online advertising spending in Europe is set to
jump, growing to $6.4 billion (6.8 billion euros) by the end of 2005.
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