TripAdvisor revenue up 29.2 percent on higher click-based advertising

(Reuters) – Travel review website operator TripAdvisor Inc reported a 29.2 percent rise in quarterly revenue as it earned more from click-based advertising and display ads. Shares of the company, which owns websites such as tripadvisor.com and oyster.com, rose about 5.8 percent to $81.30 in extended trading on Wednesday. Revenue from click-based advertising rose 20 percent to $249 million in the first quarter ended March 31 from a year earlier and accounted for 69 percent of total revenue, the company said

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‘Team Juncker’ ham for cameras to push EU digital market

By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Can a bunch of graying politicians in Brussels really get with it and give Europe a revolutionary open market in digital technology? Jean-Claude Juncker and other EU executives poked fun at their own generation in an online video posted on Twitter on Wednesday to try and convince younger Europeans that they can.

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EU aims to cut sales tax on online newspapers: Juncker

The EU executive will propose cutting the bloc’s sales tax on online newspapers, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday, in a move that would bring them into line with print media. Addressing Germany’s newspaper publishers federation BDZV in Brussels, Juncker said the Commission would put forward draft legislation in the first half of next year to extend national governments’ right to set reduced rates of value-added tax (VAT) on newspapers to their digital versions

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