Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile
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When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in… Read more »
Google Fined In France For Offering Free Maps
The French are kicking Google (NSDQ: GOOG) again. This time, in a strange ruling, Paris’ commercial court has found the company is anti-comp… Read more »
Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Ge… Read more »
Amazon Launches Junglee.com Marketplace In India
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Hoping to tap into India’s rapidly growing e-commerce market, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching Junglee.com in the country today. Read more »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
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Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more »
Samsung Takes The Apple Route For Its Next Big Launch, the Galaxy S III
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung… Read more »
Report: China Telecom Will Finally Get The iPhone 4S In February
Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China… Read more »
More Android Forking? Disney Teams Up With Japan’s Docomo For 2 New Phones
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Disney (NYSE: DIS) Mobile, the short-lived U.S. MVNO that found a new lease of life in Japan through a Softbank JV in 2008, has now launched… Read more »
Videoplaza Raises $12 Million For Its Multiscreen Video Ad Platform
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s ano… Read more »
Myriad Eyes Synchronica, Says Messaging Company Can’t Pay Its Nokia Debt
Some fallout from the various asset offloads we have seen from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the last year: Synchronica, which bought Nokia’s messagi… Read more »
Google Set To Relaunch OnePass, Halting French Papers’ Kiosk
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paidContent understands Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is set to make some big first-anniversary upgrades to its OnePass paid content system in the nex… Read more »
Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission
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The ongoing, back-and-forth legal fight that is the Apple/Samsung patent dispute today took on a new dimension in one of its key battlegroun… Read more »
Apple Picks Dixons Group CEO Browett As New Retail SVP
Napoleon once described the UK as a “nation of shopkeepers”, so it is somewhat fitting that this is where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gone to fin… Read more »
Reports: Barnes & Noble Partnership With Waterstones; New Nook
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Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waters… Read more »
RIM In Trouble In Europe? Not In The UK, It Claims
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RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) is taking a beating at the moment from handset makers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung, which have eaten into a smartpho… Read more »
French News Revolution: La Tribune Sold, Ends Daily Print Run
France’s national La Tribune newspaper said Monday’s edition was its last daily print copy, as its owner’s sale to a regional publisher and… Read more »
Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service — on… Read more »
Netflix Stock Jumps More Than 20%, Equity Analysts ‘Bullish’ Again
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) stock jumped over 20 percent, with a number of equity analysts bumping up the movie rental company’s price target follo… Read more »
Nokia Q4: Scrambling For A Grip, But Still Falling; 1M+ Lumia Phones Sold
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Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The ha… Read more »
Update 2: Privacy Alert: O2 Fixes Hole That Shared Users’ Phone Numbers
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Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile… Read more »
Kantar: Apple Back On Top As Bestselling Smartphone In The U.S.
Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is b… Read more »
Nokia Clears The Decks Of Its Burning Platform Ahead Of Results Tomorrow
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One day before Nokia is due to announce its next set of quarterly results, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has made three announcements: a milestone reach… Read more »
Does Square Have A Doppelganger In The UK? Meet mPowa
Square, the high-profile mobile payments company started by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, has yet to launch outside the U.S. But in the meantime, a… Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s Loss Is Apple’s Gain: iPhone Maker Hires Latin America Head
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), as it winds up as a troubled joint venture to become fully part of Sony, is spinning out some talent… Read more »
Jon Miller, News Corp.: It’s All About Video For Us Right Now
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Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on v… Read more »
Orange To Provide Wikipedia Free In Middle East And Africa
Orange has struck a deal with Wikipedia to make its digital encyclopaedia available free of data charges to millions of mobile phone users a… Read more »
Carriers Have Only Around 100 Million Pay-TV Users, Less Than 60% Via IPTV
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Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, includin… Read more »
Megaupload Case Grows Bigger, Stranger
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A New Zealand court today delayed its decision over whether to grant bail to the founder of Megaupload after prosecutors argued that Kim Dot… Read more »
Digital Opportunity And Creativity In China’s Year Of The Dragon
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Monday marks China’s new year. The dragon, whose year it is this year, is the only mythical creature in the calendar but, as Europe’s digita… Read more »
Updated: Bonjour! AOL Takes French Le Huffington Post Live
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Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Po… Read more »
WSJ Poaches Narisetti From Washington Post
The reverb from Kevin Delaney’s departure from the Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media Group just hit DC: WSJ alum Raju Narisetti is head… Read more »
SOPA Blackout, Anonymous-Style: FBI, DOJ Sites Downed In Megaupload Protest
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A day after the SOPA protest on the web, the hacker group Anonymous has taken the blackout theme to a whole new level: in retaliation for th… Read more »
Update: Motricity Restructures: Closes Asia Ops, Will Focus On Mobile Ads
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More woe for beleagured mobile services company Motricity: the company today announced that it is restructuring operations, pulling back fro… Read more »
Atlantic Tries A Business Site Again; WSJ's Delaney Will Lead Editorial
Nearly two years after Atlantic Media Company suspended plans for a business site, the company is back at it with nothing less that what Jus… Read more »
Bellwether: Q4 UK Ad Spend Up Slightly On Online Growth
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In a climate where economic forecasts continue to remain cloudy, ad spend in the UK went up marginally in Q4 2011, with increased spend on i… Read more »
ITN Unifying Ad Sales For Multi-Platform Video Syndication
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations. Read more »
Mail Online Introduces Indian Site
The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India. Read more »
HuffPo Partners With L'Espresso For 'L'Huffington Post Italy'
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The Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition,… Read more »
Industry Moves: HookLogic; SwoopThat; ABCi; Digitas; Yahoo
– HookLogic: Jeff Griffin joins in the new position of president of retail. Most recently, he co-founded Interpublic Group’s Shopper Scienc… Read more »
WPP: Another Move Into Asia Pac, Buys A Stake In Australia's DTDigital
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Another day, and another big digital investment from the world’s largest advertising firm. WPP subsidiary Ogilvy has taken a 33.3 percent st… Read more »
