The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr… Read more »
Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services — specifically around more content getting pushed to… Read more »
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta… Read more »
As the uproar over New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane’s “truth vigilante” question continues, it’s worth noting that North Korea’s… Read more »
Bowing to the reality of modern technology, Canada today said it is changing a 1938 law that forbids broadcasting election results before po… Read more »
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire… Read more »
We know that consumers in China love Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) products, and that Apple is famous for the lines that form outside its stores in adv… Read more »
While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn… Read more »
Unlike its local rival Samsung, the Korean handset maker LG (SEO: 066570) has lately had more of a mixed bag when it’s come to Android devic… Read more »
As expected, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has started to send out invitations to an event in New York, and now we know what it will be about: educatio… Read more »
Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS)… Read more »
Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s… Read more »
Dell is not among the companies announcing a new tablet this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, but it made sure to keep its name in the air… Read more »
CES, currently in full swing in Las Vegas, promises to bring out another wave of Android tablets, to add to the 40+ that were on the market… Read more »
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will… Read more »
It is a busy week for digital media news in the Far East, ahead of the Chinese New Year on January 23. Notably, more new e-book services are… Read more »
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, to… Read more »
Hispanics, according to Nielsen, have the second-highest penetration of smartphone usage among U.S. ethnic groups, and today brings news of… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is putting a big bet on China, where its products and services have proven hugely popular, but that could also leave it e… Read more »
Correction: An earlier version of this article noted Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility’s revenue in “millions” not “billions”. It has now been c… Read more »
Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gearing up for a splash at CES to kick off the U.S. launch of its new line of Microsoft-powered smartphones, it… Read more »
Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market — over half of all smartphones being use… Read more »
Investors who missed out on the biggest gains from U.S. innovations – internet search engines, online job listings and cell phone populari… Read more »
With it now certain that China’s popular Weibo (microblogging) services – prime among them being Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) and Tencent’s (HKG:0… Read more »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have looked westwards for its latest CEO — the Canadian, ex-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive Stephen Elop — but, in… Read more »
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010… Read more »
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as i… Read more »
China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies lik… Read more »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011 — not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken f… Read more »
When the CEO of News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), Rupert Murdoch, joined Twitter a few days ago as an official, verified account, endorsed even… Read more »
More money for European tech startups: Wroclaw, Poland based mobile games publisher Tequila Mobile has announced a $1.7 round of funding, as… Read more »
The smartphone and tablet buying rush over the holidays spilled over into a corresponding deluge of app downloads, with the total weekly num… Read more »
Up to 100 newspaper titles in Italy are facing closure because of the government’s subsidy cuts – down from €170m a year to €53m (£142/… Read more »
This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more »
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more wa… Read more »
Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. Read more »
Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west. Read more »
Some countries in Europe, like France, are looking at ways of extending their copyright protection laws to streamed media, in addition to ex… Read more »
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, an… Read more »
Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a seri… Read more »
