Mobile News Consumption Is Highest In UK
Nearly 10 percent of traffic to UK newspaper websites comes from non-computer devices — that’s the highest in the world, according to comSc… Read more »
Rhapsody Now Has One Million Music Subs In The U.S. Next Stop: Europe
It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: The Year In Advertising, By The Numbers
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This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more »
For Users Outside The U.S., Facebook Is Getting A Little More Private
Facebook is no stranger to accusations about how it treats users’ privacy — something that has come under increased public scrutiny in the… Read more »
Report: Nokia Lumia Accounted For Only 0.17 Percent Of UK Sales In November
Some pretty damning early statistics out today for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the Lumia 800: according to a new survey, i… Read more »
Distimo: Apple's App Store Still Beats Android On Revenues; Freemium Rules
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but whe… Read more »
News Corp.'s Sun Wins Appeal: Video On News Sites Won't Be Regulated As VOD
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications re… Read more »
Italy's Paid Content Market Actually Seems Relatively Healthy
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Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other major nations. Read more »
New Advertising JV In UK: Hi-Media Partners With Weborama
A bit of consolidation in the online advertising world in the UK, and another step to strengthen the ad-exchange business model: Hi-Media, t… Read more »
Apple Buys Israeli Flash Storage Maker In $500 Million Deal
Apple has bought Israel’s Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, for up to $500 million (£319 million), the Calcalist financial daily… Read more »
News Corp./Time Warner's Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW… Read more »
Japan Is The World's Mobile Advertising Powerhouse
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Imagine a land where mobile advertising meets all the lofty forecasts. That land is Japan, which is showing the industry the future of the s… Read more »
Updated: BT Sues Google Over Android, Other Services
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is no stranger to patent lawsuits these days, but the latest development could be the first to see a carrier go after th… Read more »
Barnes & Noble's Nook Will Likely Launch In UK In 2012
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Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader will hit the UK “in the not too distant future,” a company VP said yesterday. The Kindle and Kobo are already… Read more »
France Telecom's Orange Looks To 3D And Xbox For New TV Bells And Whistles
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With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies… Read more »
Chinese Video Sites Accuse Each Other Of TV Show Piracy
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China’s two largest video-streaming sites, Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) and Youku (NYSE:YOKU), are heading for a legal battle after Tudou announced t… Read more »
ePub Direct Funded To Supply E-Books To Kindle, iBooks Et Al
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If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Read more »
China E-Reader Sales Down Thanks To Lack Of Content
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Though the e-book phenomenon is now taking off around the world, Chinese e-reader sales actually fell 5.1 percent, according to Analysys Int… Read more »
Nielsen: Android And Apple Dominate The App Space But Mobile Browser Rules
Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Niels… Read more »
Analyst: Downturn And Intransigence Pushing French Papers To Web, Oblivion
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Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has this remarkable and brutal story of how France’s rickety news business, which relies heavily on state subsidy, is ab… Read more »
Nokia's First Windows Phone For The U.S., The Lumia 710 With T-Mobile
Confirming earlier reports, T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to sell a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows Phone in the U.S. — a key market for… Read more »
Al Jazeera, Apple Could Drive Up Sky Sports' Soccer Costs
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Cash-rich pay-TV service Al Jazeera Sports could force Sky Sports to bid 25 percent more for 2013-16 Premier League rights when negotiations… Read more »
Samsung Electronics Reorg: Apple's Friends On One Side; Foes On The Other?
photo: Amanda Natividad
It looks like Samsung Electronics, the flagship and biggest division of the Samsung Group conglomerate, is restructuring its organisation. W… Read more »
Google Gobbling Up Even More UK Searches
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is again gaining search share in a market it already overwhelmingly dominates. Read more »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
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Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Apple Finally Brings iTunes Music And Movies To Latin America
Nearly 12 years after it first launched, iTunes Store has gone live in Brazil and 15 other Latin American countries, as the region’s consume… Read more »
Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com
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Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more »
Axel Springer Becomes Industry's Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
photo: Axel Springer
The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west. Read more »
Apple's Leagues Ahead In App Downloads: 18 Billion To Android's 10 Billion
A timely news announcement from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) one week after Google’s own Android apps milestone: Apple says that 500,000 apps have now… Read more »
El Huffington Post: Arianna Goes To Spain With El Pais Partnership
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The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner… Read more »
China's Eight Most Profitable US-Listed Tech Stocks in 2011
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Despite fears of a very bad year for Chinese tech stocks after the fraud at Longtop (formerly NASDAQ: LFT), a new list from China Analyst re… Read more »
Nokia Ships Its Second, Cheaper Windows Phone Handset, The Lumia 710
photo: Tom Krazit
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone d… Read more »
Five Ways Twitter's New Redesign Makes It More Like Sina Weibo
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Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to China’s most dynamic microblogging platform, Sina’s (… Read more »
Latin America's Digital Boom: It's Coming From The South
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Latin America’s online entertainment prospects are booming because an economic recovery has put connected devices and disposable income in p… Read more »
Updated: In Samsung v. Apple, Are Injunctions A Viable Nuclear Option?
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Two more advances in the ongoing, international fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android tablet maker Samsung over alleged patent violat… Read more »
Here's How Android Has Destroyed Symbian In China
Everyone knows that Nokia’s Symbian always had little take-up in the U.S.. But, once upon a time, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) could count on a large u… Read more »
China's Dangdang Does An Amazon With E-Books, Apps, E-Reader
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The Chinese e-commerce site Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) is set to follow in the footsteps of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its Kindle when… Read more »
Updated: Apple TV Streaming Quietly Goes International
Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream sho… Read more »
Android's China Problem – Schmidt Struggles To Keep Apps In His Market
photo: JD Lasica
As our recent coverage of China’s proliferating app store segment has shown, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is not in full control of its own operating… Read more »
Diamonds Are Forever, But Nokia Is Reportedly Selling Luxury Brand Vertu
Nokia’s luxury device brand Vertu — the epitome of conspicuous consumption with gold-and-diamond handsets priced in the six figures — has… Read more »
