MobileIron Raises $16 Million To Manage Smartphones In The Enterprise
Mountain View, Calif.-based MobileIron has raised $16 million in a third round of funding to help develop a platform that manages everything… Read more »
ZenithOptimedia: Social Media, Mobile Ads Fuel Improved Outlook
ZenithOptimedia has revised its ad spend forecast upward for the U.S. and Europe, while the internet is poised to grow 13.1 percent in 2010… Read more »
Indian Mobile Services Firm IMI Mobile To Buy Win Plc
UK mobile content and services company Win Plc announced today that it is recommending to shareholders a cash offer from the Sequoia-backed… Read more »
India Ad Net Komli Buys PostClick
Indian ad net Komli Media has acquired Australian online rep firm PostClick. The deal is intended to expand Komli’s reach across the Asia Pa… Read more »
How To Get People To Pay For Content
It’s the most common question I get in my travels: Will people ever pay for content again? See what I had to say about that in this three-mi… Read more »
Wednesday’s London Meetup: Julie Meyer, David Rowan On Panel
There’s less than 24 hours to register for our meetup happening at MSN’s HQ on Wednesday at 6pm.
Marking our founder Rafat’s move on to p… Read more »
Guardian Statement On Rafat’s Departure
Note: read Rafat’s post about his leaving.
Dear Readers,
Our founder, a digital warrior and friend to many of you, Rafat Ali, is stepping… Read more »
On To Life 2.0
In the end, all things *do* come to an end. The good and bad part is, it is never a definite marker, but all part of a process. And so it ha… Read more »
Vodafone Sees Healthy Mobile Data Income, But Devalues Indian Business
Smartphone handsets fueled the money Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) makes from internet data to £4 billion ( billion) during its 2009/10 fiscal year… Read more »
What If This Isn’t The Year For Mobile Advertising?
photo: Corbis
Now that we’ve gotten all excited about the potential revenues iAd could reap, and big giants like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL… Read more »
The New Rules For Judging ‘Quality’ In Published Content
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to… Read more »
Video: Highlights From Our ‘State Of Gadget Media’ Event In NYC
photo: Twitpic / Rafat Ali
Are gadget fans really all men? Nick Denton thinks so –saying, about the Gizmodo reader that, yes, “it’s a guy.” But not everyone at our re… Read more »
IPad International Orders Start Monday; Lands In UK, Others May 28
Update: Here’s the pre-order link.
The lack of iPads in the UK kept would-be owners there from being as frustrated as I was trying to follo… Read more »
Why The FTC Should Allow The Google-AdMob Merger
photo: Rubberball / Corbis
The Federal Trade Commission is expected to make a decision as early as this week on whether to allow Google’s $750 million acquisition of A… Read more »
How Apple’s iAd Could Blow Marketers’ Mobile Budgets
photo: Tricia Duryee
Dozens of questions remain about Apple’s plans to get into the mobile advertising business, from how much a campaign will cost to which appl… Read more »
Traditional Ways Of Judging ‘Quality’ In Published Content Are Now Useless
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to… Read more »
Apple iPad Sales Pass 1 Million Mark; iBooks Not Flying Off Shelves
photo: Tricia Duryee
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is crowing this morning about breaking the one million mark with iPad in 28 days — less than half the tim… Read more »
Why Some Media Companies Are Quietly Cheering The Apple-Adobe Tiff
photo: Tricia Duryee
The Apple-Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) tussle is heating up to bizarre proportions, with Steve Jobs yesterday issuing a public defense for Apple’s ant… Read more »
Reality Check: For Many Publishers, Google Is Much Less Important Than You Think
Arnon Mishkin is a consultant focused on media and internet companies.
The easiest way to clear a room of internet-savvy media executives i… Read more »
Apple Delays iPad’s International Release; Blames Higher-Than-Expected U.S. Sales
photo: Tricia Duryee
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is delaying international sales of the iPad by a month, citing the “surprisingly strong” demand for iPads in the U.S. The… Read more »
Steve Jobs: Here’s How Apple Will Beat Google At Mobile Advertising
photo: Tricia Duryee
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), still riding high from a successful iPad launch, added another feather in to its cap today. By far the biggest consumer-… Read more »
The Highlights Of iPhone OS 4.0: Multi-tasking, A New Mobile Ad Network, More
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is announcing today the latest version of the iPhone operating system, which will come with at least 100 new features, li… Read more »
The Latest iPad And iPhone Stats
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We are all here in Cupertino today to hear about the next stage of the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone, but Steve Jobs treated us with a few stati… Read more »
The iPad Watch: 04.07.2010
» The iPad won’t save the publishing industry from itself. [Harvard Business Review]
» Experts are unsure whether the… Read more »
Five Things We’ll Be Watching For At Apple’s iPhone Announcement
Tomorrow is a big day for the wireless industry, as one of the most influential innovators in the mobile world announces the latest edition… Read more »
The iPad Watch: 04.06.2010
photo: Corbis / Brooks Kraft
» Forget Kindle, here’s why iPad is the Google killer. [Mele's Musings]
» Ten reasons why the iPad is good for enterp… Read more »
The iPad Watch: 04.05.2010
photo: FCC
» New iPad users complain about shoddy WiFi reception. [TechCrunch]
» The moderate’s position on iPad openness. [Alex… Read more »
Why The iPad Actually Strengthens Amazon’s Position
photo: Amazon
Round 1 goes to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The iPad, as expected, has caused a big stir, and given people like Walt Mossberg reason to gush with en… Read more »
Reliance Big Entertainment Buys 50 Percent Stake In Video Game Firm Codemasters
Reliance Big Entertainment, which owns Indian gaming firm Zapak, is buying a 50 percent stake in British video game maker Codemasters. Balde… Read more »
Some Privacy Ground Rules For Location-Based Marketing: Why ‘Geofencing’ Goes Too Far
Matt Silk is the SVP of Waterfall Mobile, a San Francisco-based digital-messaging company.
Location-based services are getting an enormous… Read more »
The iPad Watch: 04.02.2010
» ABC (NYSE: DIS) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) have both jumped on the bandwagon but NBC is sticking with just iTunes. [Hulucination]
Book Excerpt: How The Web Has Changed Business News
Ken Doctor is a news-industry analyst for Outsell, a global research and advisory firm, and through his own site Newsonomics.com. Below is a… Read more »
Memo To News Sites: There Is No Future In ‘Digital Razzle Dazzle’
John Yemma is Editor of The Christian Science Monitor.
Let’s agree that Rupert Murdoch is right: Content is king. You’ll get nothing but ap… Read more »
Six Lessons We’ve Learned About Mobile Apps (Free And Paid)
Paul Reddick is the CEO of Handmark, which publishes software and games for handheld devices.
If you believe what you hear, it Read more »
India’s UTV Investing In International Freemium Games Expansion
Can India do a South Korea when it comes to online gaming? Hundreds of thousands of teens there, and in China, lead the way in multiplayer g… Read more »
Elisabeth Murdoch On Shine, Family Succession and Ambition
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By Jane Martinson: Elisabeth Murdoch sits down, eyes the voice recorder, and says “I have to be careful”. The head of Shine, the UK’s larges… Read more »
How Twitter Can Become A New Breed Of Technology Company
Khris Loux is the founder and CEO of Echo, a commenting platform. He tweets at @Khrisloux.
With leadership from its founders and a signific… Read more »
Indian Media Industry in 2010: TV Is The Juggernaut
In how many markets can media companies honestly say they’ll be growing in double digits this year? Exactly. The Indian media and entertainm… Read more »
Video From ADMS: Eric Schmidt on the Mobile-Centric Google
At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last week, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt was the biggest speaker of them all. And he surely made the de… Read more »
Video @ paidContent2010: A Hard Look At The Subscription Model
Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (… Read more »
