Nokia Q3 Earnings To Be Announced October 20: Crunch Time Continues
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced today that it will be reporting its third-quarter earnings a week from today, October 20. Will we see more of th… Read more »
Spotify Needs U.S. Success After Losses Deepened In 2010
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Accounts filed with Companies House show the likely reason Spotify wanted to break America so badly. Read more »
We7 Slims Losses On Tripled Turnover
The British music streaming service, We7, reduced its losses to about £3m last year as the Peter Gabriel-founded company managed to triple… Read more »
Updated: Ice Cream Sandwich Melts? Google, Samsung Move Nexus Prime Launch
People that have been gearing up for the launch of Google’s newest Android iteration, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Samsung’s latest signature dev… Read more »
B2B Publisher Wilmington Migrates Its Business Online
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Business publisher Wilmington, once a Press Gazette owner, says 72 percent of its 2010/11 publishing income came from digital – up from 45 p… Read more »
Tablets, E-Reader Growth Offset By Weak No-iPhone Quarter At Best Buy
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Growth in sales of mobile devices wasn’t enough to offset declines in television and gaming at Best Buy, whose second-quarter results indica… Read more »
Wiley’s Professional/Trade E-Book Revenues Triple To 11 Percent Of Sales
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Book publisher John Wiley & Sons’ professional/trade book division made $11 million from e-book sales in the first quarter of fiscal year 20… Read more »
Alipay Buys Up More Of China’s Nascent Online Payments Market
The Chinese online payments provider in which Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) holds an indirect interest is buying itself a greater slice of that growing… Read more »
Not Just Random House: Over 20 Percent Of Hachette’s Sales Are E-Books, Too
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On the heels of the news yesterday that over 20 percent of Random House’s U.S. sales are e-books, Hachette Book Group says that e-books made… Read more »
War Games Offset Music Decline For Vivendi
French entertainment and telecoms company Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has reported a strong first half, with record sales of its Activision (NSDQ: AT… Read more »
Mail.ru Seeing Explosive Profit Growth
Portal operator Mail.ru’s half-year profit has more than doubled to $85.5 million, underlining it as one of the most successful in the high-… Read more »
Updated: B&N’s Digital Sales Up, Can’t Compensate For Falling Store Sales
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Barnes & Noble’s digital sales continue to increase–but not enough to make up for falling in-store sales, the company announced in its Q1 2… Read more »
Netmums Owner AuFeminin Sees Growing Profit, Overseas Expansion
The new owner of the Netmums community plans to buy up more sites.
Axel Springer’s auFeminin women’s network bought the UK site earlier in… Read more »
Perform Revenue Jumps After IPO, But Swings To A Loss
Online sports broadcaster Perform Group swung to a loss in its first year on the stock market after it spent out on more sports rights and a… Read more »
STV’s Digital Prospects Up On Local And London Adoption
Digital income at Scottish broadcaster STV is more than a half up from last year, thanks partly to increased adoption south of the border.… Read more »
Pandora’s Kennedy: We Will Gradually Increase Audio Ad Inventory
For the most part, Pandora’s quarterly numbers show a company headed in the right direction, with revenue numbers up substantially along wit… Read more »
Pandora Revenues Jump Triple Digits; Chance Of Breaking Even In 2012
Pandora (NYSE: P), which has seen its stock price battered since the brief euphoria that surrounded its IPO pricing back in June, posted tri… Read more »
Johnston Hurt in Print And Digital By UK Recruitment Prospects
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Ashley Highfield will inherit a troubled Johnston Press when he becomes CEO on November 1.
The local news publisher’s big idea of adding ge… Read more »
TiVo Losses Return As Subscribers Dwindle
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After TiVo’s brief glimpse of profitability in Q1 thanks to a $500 million patent settlement it won from DISH Network and Echostar (NSDQ: SA… Read more »
Digital Ad Growth Has Resumed And Paid Content Has Helped, WPP Says
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“Direct, digital and interactive have resumed their relatively stronger growth rate, when compared to traditional media,” according to the w… Read more »
Motricity Hits The Rocks: CEO/Founder Ryan Wuerch Out, Jim Smith Takes Over
Turmoil and a significant changing of the guard at mobile data services company Motricity. The company today announced that Ryan Wuerch (pic… Read more »
HP To Halt All WebOS Device Development, Confirms Talks To Shed PC Group
HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced Thursday that it plans to stop making WebOS devices after a disappointing debut for its TouchPad tablet. The decisi… Read more »
Sina: Profit Slumps 60 Percent On Weibo Microblogging Investment
Sina (NSDQ: SINA) may have taken the crown in the Twitter-style, homegrown microblogging race in China, but its leadership has come at a pri… Read more »
Chinese Social Site RenRen Swings To Small Profit On Nasdaq
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In its second disclosure to the Nasdaq since floating there in May, Chinese social network RenRen says that it swung to a Q2 net income of $… Read more »
Mirror Group Digital Will Charge For Some Content To Recoup Bingo Losses
Trinity Mirror’s national news wing is set to start charging for some content this autumn, to arrest falling digital revenue.
CEO Sly Baile… Read more »
Alibaba Profits Jump After Influx Of Foreign Buyers
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The Chinese ecommerce site of whose owner Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) owns 40 percent is growing fast. Alibaba Group’s Alibaba.com Q2 profit beat ana… Read more »
What The Media Was Tweeting During News Corp’s Earnings Call
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Some in the media expected the first News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) earnings call after July’s explosive hacking scandal — and the closure of “News… Read more »
News Corp Claims No Hacking Financial Impact, Seeks BSkyB Alternatives
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News Corp will pursue alternative acquisitions to BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), buy back more shares and raise investors’ dividends – but will apparent… Read more »
Murdoch Tells Wall Street: Chase Carey And I Run News Corp As A Team
“The board and I believe I should continue in my current role as chairman and CEO,” Rupert Murdoch said, as he announced News Corp.’s Q4 201… Read more »
Tencent Sees China Internet Growth Slowing
The operator of China’s biggest instant messaging service says its growth has slowed due to “increased scale and reduced growth rate in the… Read more »
Confirmed: The UK Won’t Get The Nokia N9, Either. That’s Two Down.
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You have to hand it to Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Under its CEO Stephen Elop, it’s not much in the business of doing things by halves. The company h… Read more »
Disney Earnings Are Strong, But Interactive Lags
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Disney (NYSE: DIS) may be dedicated to turning around its interactive media group, but the numbers released by the company today show the co… Read more »
Demand Media Net Losses Widen, As Revenue Jumps
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Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) released a flurry of news — including two acquisitions and a new premium ad deal with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) — amid… Read more »
Cablevision Loses More Video Subs; Adds iPhone, Touch Apps
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Like its MSO rivals, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) saw more subscribers disappear, though it thinks it has a plan to retain the customers don’t le… Read more »
AOL’s Display Turnaround Continues, Net Loss Slims
AOL’s display advertising turnaround appears to be taking shape, as Q2 numbers showed that segment up 14 percent globally. Meanwhile, the U.… Read more »
WaPo’s Display Dollars Fall By Double Digits In Q2
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While print advertising declines are a given for most major newspaper publishers these days, the online side of the business has still tende… Read more »
Viacom’s Dauman: Streaming Deals Will Keep Affiliate Fees Rising
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Although Viacom’s stock, along with most everyone else’s, has been battered in recent days by the market declines the past few days, it migh… Read more »
LinkedIn Earnings Up As Membership Hits 120 Million And Mobile Usage Soars
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The stock market may be suffering its worst one-day slide since 2008, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at LinkedIn’s second-quarter earni… Read more »
T-Mobile Still Losing Customers In Rough Patch For Also-Rans Of Wireless
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It’s really hard to be a wireless carrier right now unless you’re AT&T (NYSE: T) or Verizon. T-Mobile became the fifth smaller carrier to po… Read more »
WMG Loves Spotify And Sees Music Riding The Cloud To Digital Tipping Point
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The music industry will soon reach that fabled tipping point at which digital revenue exceeds lost physical sales, Warner Music Group (NYSE:… Read more »
