Ooyala And Yahoo Japan Team Up To Capture Online Video Market
Ooyala has struck a deal with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Japan as both the online video platform and the portal look to add more broadcasters, publi… Read more »
Will We Finally See Service Bars On The London Underground? Huawei Hopes So
photo: Annie Mole
One by-product of travelling to a different city — for example, Barcelona last week — is that it serves as a reminder that not everyone ha… Read more »
Renren, China’s Answer To Facebook, Plans U.S. Float
China’s answer to Facebook is planning a stock market float in the US, potentially making it the first social-networking site to go public.… Read more »
Alibaba.com’s CEO And COO Resign Over Fraud
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A huge executive shakeup at Yahoo-linked Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com: CEO David Wei and COO Elvis Lee have both resigned, after the… Read more »
@ MWC: Meet One Of The ‘Others’ In The Smartphone Game
photo: Ingrid Lunden
You know those numbers from Gartner that show how the biggest marketshare in mobile today, collectively, goes to a plethora of smaller playe… Read more »
Why Warner Bros. Bypassed iTunes With App Editions
Warner Bros.’ intent to distribute movies as standalone apps packed with all sorts of content extras may seem like just a high-end treat for… Read more »
MWC Wire: Huawei; Skyhook; eBay; Adknowledge; Myriad; KT
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» Huawei announced some devices today, including the Ideos X3 smartphone and Ideos S7 Slim tablet. The new touchscreen smartphone… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.15.2011
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» Groupon may be big in the U.S. and Europe — but it can’t seem to get traction in Japan. The daily deals site has also made a s… Read more »
@ MWC: ZTE Goes For The High End With The Skate
ZTE, the Chinese handset and wireless equipment maker, epitomises a certain kind of new entrant in the mobile industry: very determined, ver… Read more »
MSN’s Scott Moore Questions ‘Risky Bet’ AOL Made On HuffPo
AOL’s acquisition of Huffington Post makes for a “risky bet,” according to Scott Moore, partner and regional executive producer at Microsoft… Read more »
Reuters’ Adler To Run Streamlined Reuters News; Schlesinger Headed To China
A little over a year after joining Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) as SVP and editorial director of the news service’s Professional division, ex… Read more »
Dentsu Buys Digital Shop Firstborn
photo: Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias
Japanese ad giant Dentsu, which has been trying to find digital agencies to acquire for over the past year, has finally found a follow-up to… Read more »
Nokia Strikes Deals With Sina, Tencent To Capitalize On Its Lead In China
Nokia’s results yesterday showed how important China is to the handset maker. While market share in already-challenging markets like the U.S… Read more »
Vendor Earnings Roundup: Moto, Qualcomm, LG
– Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Mobility: In its first results since spinning off from the Solutions part of its business, the mobile device and hom… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Nokia @Home; PapayaMobile/LG; Play.fm
– Nokia: You know there’s rouble when you are having trouble winning even when you’re the home team. Handsets from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) those… Read more »
How News Corp Plans To Profit From Mobile Audio Subscriptions In India
Forget iPads and smartphone apps – in India, the real “new media” are basic feature phones.
Media companies aren’t letting the market’s rel… Read more »
Court Rules For Huawei, Blocks Motorola-NSN Sale For Now
On Monday evening, a judge in the U.S. District Court For Northern Illinois handed Huawei an initial victory in its fight to halt the sale o… Read more »
Updated: One More IP Infringement Suit: Huawei vs. Motorola
The mobile lawsuits keep on coming. But this latest fight does not have to do with mobile handsets, or with patented technology being used w… Read more »
Mobile Device Bits: Oracle, Nokia Patents; Lenovo; Notebooks Still Strong
– Oracle v. Google: Android device makers LG (SEO: 066570), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Samsung could be feeling some legal heat soon. They ha… Read more »
Nokia: On Top In China Today, But What Lies Ahead?
A lot of people have been sharing a table that was released yesterday showing Nokia’s Ovi app store with a commanding lead in China — an ed… Read more »
India Ad Net Komli Raises $15 Million For Regional Expansion
Following two fairly big acquisitions designed to expand its regional presence, Indian ad network Komli is preparing to do some deals. The M… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-19-11
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» Ad tech firms Cross Commerce MediaClickable, MediaMath, and TARGUSinfo are forming the Consortium for Accountable Advertising,… Read more »
Industry Moves Roundup: Clearwire; Jajah / O2; Qualcomm
– Clearwire: The wireless operator has appointed John W. Stanton as chairman of the board of directors. He replaces Craig McCaw, who resign… Read more »
India Digital Marketer Ybrant Raises $48 Million Financing
Hyderabad-based digital marketer Ybrant Digital took a break from its international shopping spree last year, but it says its looking to buy… Read more »
Mobile Advertising: 3rd Space Launches Partnership With China’s CCTV
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One consequence of having the world’s largest national mobile market, with 850 million users and counting? The potential to make a killing o… Read more »
Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ Disappears In 27 Markets
Nokia’s struggle to compete against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), and drive more sales of its own smartphones, hit a new low today, as the Finnish com… Read more »
Adieu, Modu, We Hardly Knew Ye
Israeli handset maker Modu — which developed the concept of a super-light, super-small smartphones that can be customised with different ou… Read more »
Mobile VC Investment Was A Massive $6.1B In 2010. Google, Intel Led The Way
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Boutique investment house Rutberg & Company have released their numbers on VC and M&A activity in the mobile sector, and the figures confirm… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Sprint/Clearwire; Motorola Split; China/Skype
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– Sprint/Clearwire: The tumultuous times at Clearwire continue. Sprint (NYSE: S) today said that it would not be buying debt from Clearwire… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Sprint/Nextel; Samsung/Bada; HTC Targets
– Sprint/Nextel: Is Sprint (NYSE: S) throwing out the baby with the bathwater? The mobile operator is considering a plan to ditch the Nexte… Read more »
Multilingual Video Site ViKi Raises $4.3 Million
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ViKi, an online video site that licenses the rights to international shows and then adds subtitles to them in various languages, has raised… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Youku’s Stock Soars In IPO
The stock of Chinese video site Youku is rising at dot-com boom IPO-like levels today. The company, which filed to go public on the New York… Read more »
Boku Inks Deals With Carriers In France, Korea For Mobile Payments
The rise of app stores and the growth of the open mobile web have largely cut mobile operators out of the mobile content game. The smart one… Read more »
Jumptap In Japan: Partners With Dentsu And Picks Up Seven-Figure Investment
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Independent ad network Jumptap may not have the ownership of an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) or Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to drive its businesses, but the r… Read more »
The Biggest iPad Subsidy Of All: Softbank Gives It Away – What’s Behind It?
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One more operator is offering a reduced price for the iPad if you take it on a two-year contract: Softbank in Japan is preparing to launch a… Read more »
More Than Just Google TV At Stake For Sony
photo: Robert Scoble
Whether the steep discounts of Sony (NYSE: SNE) Internet TV over the weekend was a savvy ploy or a sign of weakness is subject to interpreta… Read more »
Blyk Pairs With Aircel For Ads In India, Returns To Free Rewards
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Blyk, the mobile ad company that started as a “free” MVNO for 16-24 year-olds, may have found its original business model hard to execute in… Read more »
Peter Chernin To Old Media: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
That ventures like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV make traditional media companies justifiably anxious was actually the go… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: China Unicom’s app store; Navteq; EveryScape
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– China Unicom: The country’s second-largest mobile operator has launched its own app store, WoStore, which it developed in partnership wit… Read more »
Apple’s iAd Is Turning Japanese With Dentsu
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been fielding some criticism over its tight control of its iAd advertising network up to now at home. Now we’ll get t… Read more »
