The French Government owns a 24% slice of Orange, the company that owns Dailymotion, a significant competitor to YouTube in Europe, and government interference has stopped a sale to Yahoo previously,
and a Hong Kong suitor recently. Now, it appears French owned Vivendi will acquire it. Though France wants to be known as a place for start-ups, its interference doesn't help, critics
say.
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