What Windows Phone? Nokia Shows Off N9, Aims For 10 More Symbian Devices
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is going hell for leather to get out its first devices built on Windows Phone 7 before consumers — and investors — start… Read more »
Infographic: Nokia Makes A Good Showing On Ads, Despite All Its Problems
photo: Corbis / Joel W. Rogers
One good thing you can say about Nokia: it may be losing marketshare, but those that are sticking around are pretty dedicated and sticky use… Read more »
Nokia Sets Out To Prove It’s Still An Asian Tiger
Nokia’s top guns are assembling for a one-day conference in Singapore, as the handset maker tries to fight off in Asia the same kind of atta… Read more »
Apple Turns The Screws In Its Samsung Complaint
photo: Samsung
Today, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung are due in court to see whether the judge will permit Samsung to view unreleased Apple products as par… Read more »
Nokia: First WP7 Devices Will Debut In Six European Markets
One of the biggest reasons that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has dumped Symbian in favor of Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is to better ta… Read more »
Harry Potter Goes Legit In China: Warner Bros. Is The First To Ink VoD Deal
photo: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.)
If one of the best measures against piracy is to make content more easily available in a legitimate format, then Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) ha… Read more »
PwC: For Media Companies, Digital Is Now The Central Driver
While print and broadcasting have recovered after the deep recession that ended (at least officially) in 2010, PwC’s Global entertainment an… Read more »
Rupert, Wendi And Google In Chinese Video Site’s $200 Million IPO
Rupert and Wendi Deng Murdoch and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may benefit from the planned $200 million Nasdaq floatation of Xunlei (“Swift Thunder”… Read more »
Nomura Calls A Spade A Spade: Nokia Is Going Down
Investment bank Nomura is the latest heavy hitter to weigh in on something wrong in the state of Nokia (NYSE: NOK). The analysts have releas… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-10-11
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» Huffpo Tops NY Times in Traffic, But With a Huge Asterisk (Mixed Media)
» A Federal Study Finds That Local Reportin… Read more »
Angry Birds Is Prepping Its First Book: A Cookbook About Eggs
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Rovio, which has made a small fortune spinning out products from the wild success of its “Angry Birds” mobile games, is now moving into book… Read more »
Chinese Twitter Rival Weibo ‘Planning English Launch’ This Summer
Sina (NSDQ: SINA) Weibo, the microblogging service operated by China’s Sina portal company, is planning to launch in English in the U.S. in… Read more »
Google’s China Crisis Deepens With Gmail Hacking Incident
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Google’s standoff with China over censorship in search in 2010 was a lowpoint in the search engine’s ambitions to expand to the East, but a… Read more »
@ D9: Alibaba’s Jack Ma: ‘Peace Talks Are Always Difficult’
Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma wants Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and SoftBank to give up some of their stake in the Chinese internet company. “We want to… Read more »
Hearst Completes Deal For Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
Hearst Corp. is nearing completion of its $921 million (€640 million) acquisition of French media conglomerate Lagardère SCA. It’s finali… Read more »
When It Rains, It Pours: Nokia ‘Substantially’ Downgrades Q2 Forecast
We all know about Nokia’s trials and tribulations in the smartphone market today — the declining sales that have led its CEO Stephen Elop t… Read more »
OpenX Raises $20 Million For ‘Enterprise’ Platform; AOL Among Backers
Display ad tech firm OpenX has raised a $20 million fourth round funding as it seeks to expand its ad exchange marketplace into an “an enter… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-26-11: Google Sprint NFC; Chinese Android; O2; New Fund
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details spill about Google’s not-so-secret mobile wallet launch today; worrying stat… Read more »
Is The Competition Heating Up Among Windows Phone 7 OEMs?
Of the many reasons why Windows Phone 7 has yet to make a big splash in the market, one of them, arguably, has been the fact that no single… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-25-11: 4G; Cox; Nokia / ZTE; Sony; Instagram; AdSense
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Cox drops 3G; UK gears up for first LTE trial; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and ZTE scramble to put… Read more »
Microsoft’s WP7 Mango: “You Can’t Have Too Many Features These Days”
Windows Phone 7 has not made a much of a dent yet in the worldwide smartphone market — it has less than a four percent share worldwide, acc… Read more »
Updated: Explosion At Foxconn’s iPad Factory Kills Three, Forces Shutdown
Update: Foxconn has released a statement indicating that the explosion last Friday at its factory in Chengdu, believed to be connected to th… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-20-11: More Apple Cloud; NFC UK; iPhone China; WP7 Verizon
photo: Corbis / Vigfus Birgisson
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch… Read more »
@ pcMobile: Best Global Strategy Means Local Partners And Low Prices
photo: Tom Krazit
“Globalization is now not just for Foreign Affairs magazine,” said Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) Digital, in this… Read more »
Video: A Lesson From Japan On Android Differentiation (Or Fragmentation)
Are you in the camp that thinks most Android handsets are design snorefests that essentially look and act the same? Well, a device just laun… Read more »
The Next iPhone Will Have Only Small Bangs And Whistles, Says Analyst
There have been a lot of reports speculating on what might be in store in the next iPhone, and when it might hit the market. Will it have LT… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-16-11: iPhone 5; Nokia Ovi; Clearwire; Kodak; Android
photo: Nokia
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: More reports on the so-called iPhone 5; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) ditches its Ovi brand; Sony (… Read more »
Ovi And Out: Nokia Shows Its Mobile Brand The Door, Nixes MSFT M&A Rumor
We reported last week that this would happen, and frankly you could have guessed as much, but now it’s been made official: Nokia (NYSE: NOK)… Read more »
Yahoo And Alibaba Tussle Over Alipay Handoff
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The Alibaba-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) “he says, she says” continues: Yahoo, which already had an embattled relationship with Chinese e-commerce gia… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-13-11: Twitter Docomo; Cisco; Samsung iPad; Huawei
photo: Flickr / Matt Hamm
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Twitter partners up with Docomo on innovative location services; Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) gea… Read more »
Gilt Groupe Raises $138 Million Funding, Expands Japanese Presence
With daily deal and discount luxury sites popping up practically every day, Gilt Groupe, one of the pioneers in the space, is hoping to stay… Read more »
Nokia Is Now Number-Two In Its Home Market, Thanks To Samsung and Apple
photo: Flickr / GianCayetano
Another milestone passed in the mobile industry: Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the reigning leader in mobile handsets, has now lost the number-one posi… Read more »
Independent But Growing: Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Closes $25 Million Round
As consolidation continues in the mobile ad space — with Greystripe most recently getting bought by ValueClick (NSDQ: VCLK) — one of the r… Read more »
Chinese Social Network Renren Raises $743.4 Million In Its IPO
Another huge stock market debut for a Chinese internet company: Renren, a Chinese social networking site, says it raised $743.4 million in i… Read more »
Graphic: The Osama Bin Laden Effect In Mobile
photo: Getty Images / Mario Tama
You’ve seen the stories about how Twitter was used to break the news on Osama bin Laden’s death, and the huge effect the event has had on In… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-02-11: Apple Cloud; Huawei/ZTE; Time/Apple; Free Apps
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Time (NYSE: TWX) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reach a “free content” deal; more possible deta… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-25-11: Amazon; T-Mobile; iPhone @ Work; Android Fund
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) looks at service and device bundles; T-Mobile reportedly testing iPhone… Read more »
Eye For An i: Samsung Sues Over iPhone, iPad Patents, Fight Goes Intl
photo: Tricia Duryee
You could see this one coming from a mile away: Samsung has struck back against Apple’s patent lawsuit against it with a few of its own. The… Read more »
Report Names September As Ship Date For iPhone 5; Thin On Other Details
Like miners chipping away for a seam of gold, the tech community has struck on one more detail about the next iPhone model from Apple (NSDQ:… Read more »
Sony Ericsson: Profits Are Slumping, But It Is Still Slugging Away
A slump in profits for the world’s sixth-largest handset maker Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), which today reported its results for… Read more »
