Imagine a world in which a mobile phone carrier and a bathroom pump maker owned a newspaper. Well, keep dreaming… France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is teaming with SFA PAR to bid €80 million ($98.8 million) for 65 percent of troubled Le Monde, SFA owner Claude Perdriel tells WSJ.

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may have postponed iPad’s international roll-out by a month - but, within an hour of that announcement, all three UK iPhone carriers released identical statements declaring they “will offer dedicated iPad price plans for all models from the end of May”. —Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) will offer plans…

By Mark Sweney: Orange is to launch a pan-European online ad exchange in a deal with OpenX, the ad technology company chaired by senior News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) digital chief Jon Miller, taking on offerings from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo. The new platform, called Orange Ad Market, aims to…

Two dozen of the world’s largest mobile-phone companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T (NYSE: T), NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), China Mobile and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), are teaming up to create an “open international applications platform,” which is obviously in direct response to Apple’s success with its own…

A month after saying it will form a joint mobile ads sales team with Blyk, Orange is buying itself a place at the web ads top table, acquiring Unanimis, the largest UK digital ad agency, for an undisclosed sum.