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Updates on: Les Echos, 4INFO, Electronic Arts

Luxury goods company LVMH has bought Les Echos, the biggest-selling business newspaper in France, from the Pearson media group for 240m euros (£167m). — BBC News

4INFO, Inc., the leader in SMS publishing and advertising, announced it has inked an exclusive publishing partnership with the San Francisco 49ers to give fans the ability to receive and access news and information about the team, games and players via their mobile phones. — Market Wire
4INFO announced that it has partnered with Maxim Digital, the fast growing family of websites and mobile properties for young men, to deliver free daily text message alerts that provide a link to Maxim’s content on the mobile web. — Market Wire

Video-game software publisher Electronic Arts swung to a fiscal second-quarter net loss, hurt by an accounting change, but shares climbed 5 percent after the company outlined a promising product lineup and said it expected to see a “great” holiday season. – CNN