Time Warner Makes $1.4 Billion Endemol Bid
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made a takeover bid for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. Read more »
Update: BPI Asks BT To Block BitTorrent Site Pirate Bay, Or It's Court Time
A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK’s mai… Read more »
Two Tracks For Digital Music: Aspiro White Label Deal; 7digital Tablet App
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more »
China Says No Net Video Allowed On TV
China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has been on the warpath recently. First, they threw a haymaker at China’s… Read more »
Woes Piling Up For RIM? BlackBerry Makers’ Shares Dip Below Book Value
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More turmoil this week from BlackBerry maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) that could not be mitigated by the news of the launch of a new distribution de… Read more »
News Corp.: Net Income Down On $91 Million In Hacking, BSkyB Charges
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The aftershocks of the phone-hacking scandal that erupted at News International in the UK over the summer are still being felt by its parent… Read more »
Samsung Requests Depositions For Apple’s Jony Ive, Others By December
Another development in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) versus Android patent story as the various cases work their way through the courts. Samsung ha… Read more »
More Money For Masabi: $4 Million For Mobile Ticketing, Expansion Into U.S.
Masabi, the London-based mobile ticketing startup that has nearly cornered the market for train services in the UK, has raised more funding… Read more »
Mobile Apps Seeing ‘Astronomical’ Growth In China
These are the 10 countries where mobile apps have seen the fastest consumer adoption this year, new Flurry analytics show… Read more »
A Spanish Android Tablet Maker You’ve Never Heard Of Beats Apple In Court
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been going tooth and nail after big Android device makers, especially Samsung, accusing them in courts worldwide of l… Read more »
HTC Led Q3 U.S. Smartphone Sales, Nokia To Wait Until 2012 To Challenge It
Figures out from Canalys tracking smartphone shipments worldwide in Q3 have once again demonstrated that the flood of Android handsets on th… Read more »
Weibo’s English Ambition Is To Plug Western Companies In To China
The world’s largest microblog service does not want to take on Twitter on its home turf. But it does want to further limit Twitter’s chance… Read more »
Google eBookstore Launches In Canada
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Our neighbors up north can now shop at the Canadian *Google* eBookstore, which is open for business today. Read more »
China’s Digital Media Are Super-Accelerated And Super-Competitive
Scale is everything. And China’s digital economy, which differs radically from and often beats the West’s own but about which many Western o… Read more »
Apple Extends iPhone 4S To 15 More Countries, Including Legal Hotspot Korea
Yesterday, figures out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech underscored how Apple’s share of smartphone sales in several key countries had actuall… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-01-11
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» With Launch Of The Verge, SB Nation Parent Rebrands As Vox Media (paidContent)
» Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), Looking To Gra… Read more »
Hey, T-Mobile USA: Here’s A Tip From China Mobile On How To Sell The iPhone
photo: Getty Images / Feng Li
T-Mobile is the last major carrier in the U.S. not to have the iPhone — a consequence of the device’s radio chipsets being different from t… Read more »
Kantar: Android Was The Only OS Whose Sales Grew In All Markets It Surveys
We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs — and the popularity of some specific… Read more »
CW Cuts Another Streaming Deal: Current Season Shows To Hulu, Hulu Plus
photo: CW's Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl is headed to Hulu Plus. On the heels of a past-season, library deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) that could be worth as much as $1… Read more »
Yandex Profit Booms But Google Is Regaining Lost Ground In Russian Search
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Russia’s leading search engine’s Q3 profit almost doubled to 1.7 billion rubles ($56.9 million) as advertising sales went from strength to s… Read more »
Amazon’s China Story Continues: Planning For Kindle, Kindle Fire Release?
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) appears to be ramping up its activities in China. Today a report notes that the company is in talks with the Chinese gov… Read more »
Anobii Moves Forward With Direct-To-Consumer Book Sales
If a book catches your interest on British social reading site aNobii, you’ll now be able to buy it directly from the publisher. The site, w… Read more »
Samsung: Record Mobile Profits On Sales Growth Of 300 Percent
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Earnings out today from Samsung show the Korean handset maker posted record sales and profits for its telecoms division, driven primarily by… Read more »
Bulls In Wall Street’s China Shop: Baidu Soars, Another IPO Planned
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Beijing-based Chinese portal Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) had the pleasure of telling the Nasdaq, where its stock is listed, how Q3 net income is up n… Read more »
Updated: Samsung Rules Smartphone Shipments; Nokia Still Tops Overall In Q3
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Samsung’s competitive threat to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the smartphone space — being played out not only among consumer… Read more »
In Fight Over DVD Window, Warner Bros Cuts Off Blockbuster From New Films
photo: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has refused to give DVD rentals chain Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) its latest films, including The Hangover Part II and… Read more »
E-Book Sales Grow By 564%, Now Make Up 5.5% Of Bloomsbury Sales
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Bloomsbury Publishing, which operates in both the U.S. and UK (and is the UK publisher of the Harry Potter series) is seeing “unprecedented”… Read more »
Nokia Spreads The Lumia Love: 85k Free Devices To Developers, Bloggers
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has pushed hard to get its first two Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows-based phones out before the holiday season. The indust… Read more »
BlackBerry Hit With Lawsuits Over Outage, But Cases Look Weak
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Even since BlackBerry users lost service for three days in mid-October, many have speculated that Research In Motion will be smacked with a… Read more »
Amazon Goes It Alone In China, With A New Name And URL
The American e-commerce site Amazon has made some big changes to its China site today – there’s now a new name and a new short URL, in a s… Read more »
Amazon’s Acquisition Of The Book Depository Gets Official OK
Despite industry organizations’ fears that Amazon’s acquisition of UK online bookseller The Book Depository will create a de facto monopoly,… Read more »
Nokia Has A Brimful Of Hope For Emerging ‘Smart’ Phone Markets
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) unveiled four new Symbian S40 handsets designed to appeal to upwardly-mobile youngsters in emerging-markets with smartphon… Read more »
Amazon Expects ‘Record Quarter’ For Device Sales, Continues Push Into Video
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) definitely didn’t break out Kindle Fire pre-order numbers in the investor call following today’s earnings report, but CF… Read more »
Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making ne… Read more »
Mail.ru Revenue Grows On Russian Ad Boom, Site Integration
Russian portal and social network operator Mail.ru Group’s half-year growth continued in to Q3, during which revenue was 59.1 percent higher… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-24-11
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» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent)
» Steve Jobs To Biographer: ‘I’m G… Read more »
WPP Buying Further In To Chinese Online Ad Measurement
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Chinese digital ads measurement firm Moment Systems is taking a $20 million second round investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers… Read more »
Meredith’s Marketing Push Goes Global With Stake In Iris
Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP), the publisher of women’s magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle and local TV operator, has… Read more »
News Corp.’s Australian Adds ‘Freemium’ Paywall
The Australian, which is owned by News Limited and is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), is adding a paywall to its website, m… Read more »
Amazon May Launch Kindle In Japan This Year
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Kindle may come to Japan as early as the end of this year, according to reports today in Japanese newspaper Nikkei Business Daily and wire s… Read more »
