Europe approves Universal’s bid for EMI’s music catalogue by compelling the combined entity to off-load artists including Coldplay and Gorillaz, so that is not large enough to hike prices required from new digital music services. Read more »
Europe and America have different views on freedom of speech and privacy. But with British and French legislators both challenging the idea… Read more »
She may not be convinced of the name, but “cloud” computing has risen close to top of European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes’ 2012… Read more »
The European Commission reckons it could unlock €110 ($147.99/£93.27) billion a year in new digital business by harmonising rules for the… Read more »
For the last few years European regulators have been pushing mobile companies to slash the roaming charges they slap on customers who cross… Read more »
The US government and the European Commission today gave the green light to Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobil… Read more »
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read more »
An influential European privacy body has urged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to “pause” its new privacy policy due to be implemented in March. The Art… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Don’t expect the European Commission to introduce its own version of America’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). 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 »
Last week, the paidContent staff analyzed the sectors we cover most, highlighting the key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012. Som… Read more »
The European Commission says 2011 progress against its digital agenda ambitions has been “mixed”. Read more »
The European Commission is proposing to legislate to force all the continent’s public bodies to open up their data for re-use by citizens an… Read more »
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 »
A French company has filed a new claim to reflect the harm it says it incurred after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unplugged it from its AdWords progr… Read more »
After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust invest… Read more »
Several days into the Carrier IQ story — which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool — an… Read more »
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-M… Read more »
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-M… Read more »
We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is… Read more »
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 »
European countries must ensure they have auctioned their analogue TV spectrum for use by higher-speed mobile networks by January 1, 2013, ac… Read more »
More artillery build-up in the battle between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung. Just days after Apple released its newest handset, the iPhone… Read more »
Beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s bad week is not getting much better.
As the company entered its third day of service outa… Read more »
Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savv… Read more »
It looks like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be jumping its last major regulatory hurdle in its bid to buy Skype: it is expected to get cleara… Read more »
UK football fans will potentially be able to watch cut-price Premier League matches, after the European Union’s highest court ruled on Tuesd… Read more »
Another loose end being tied up by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today. The company announced that Accenture has now fully taken over Symbian, the opera… Read more »
The European Commission has opened an anti-trust inquiry in to whether a group of banks has conspired to prevent new online payment facilita… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google has started to quietly distribute its own SIM cards with Nexus S devi… Read more »
Operator partnerships for services are notoriously hard to get right: and it looks like the mobile payments and advertising joint venture be… Read more »
Federal regulators in the U.S. are over it, but Google’s Street View privacy gaffe continues to produce headaches in the Europe. The long jo… Read more »
Looks like Samsung is getting a little relief in its ongoing case versus Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Europe: the Dusseldorf court that last week i… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has all but cornered the market for tablets in the U.S., say researchers at Forrester, who predict that its iPad will tak… Read more »
Chinese internet search giant Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) reported a 95 percent increase in net income on Monday, beating Wall Street expectations an… Read more »
Given how fast the revelations about phone hacking at UK tabloid News of the World have spread into a full-blown crisis for all of News Corp… Read more »
