EU Regulators Raid Publishers, Seeking Answers About High e-Book Prices
E-book prices are sometimes mysteriously high-they can cost as much or even more than their print equivalents for popular titles. And now Eu… Read more »
@ DLD: Video: Sulzberger: ‘Print Will Be Around A Lot Longer’
photo: Corbis / James Leynse
A year after announcing plans to turn on the meters, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. is still trying to convince people the New York Times isn’t goin… Read more »
Publishers’ iPad Subs’ Grumbles Earn Apple Antitrust Attention
What is Apple’s preferred big idea for iPad news and magazine subscriptions? We don’t know – a possible newsstand announcement may have been… Read more »
Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ Disappears In 27 Markets
Nokia’s struggle to compete against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), and drive more sales of its own smartphones, hit a new low today, as the Finnish com… Read more »
The Good News: Mobile Ads Will Grow. The Bad News: Mobile Ads Will Grow
photo: AdMob
One more analyst house is adding a vote of confidence in mobile advertising: Enders Analysis says that after years of marginal numbers, 2011… Read more »
EC OKs News Corp’s Sky Bid, Saying People Don’t Want Bundled Media Anyway
The European Commission’s antitrust investigators say competition would not be weakened if News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) buys the 60.9 percent of UK… Read more »
Telefonica, Orange, Verizon Hope To Win The Next Round In Mobile Content
photo: Claudio Gennari
The smartphone revolution, as led by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), has given us a whole new way to consume mobile content, in the form of apps. The pr… Read more »
More Consolidation In Mobile Content: Livewire Buys Fonestarz
More consolidation among mobile content players: LiveWire Mobile, a U.S.-based company that sells music and related content like ringback to… Read more »
France Says Google Is Main Cause Of News Publishers’ Woes
French authorities have finally got some kind of ruling against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) – but it turns out to be rather toothless.
The competit… Read more »
Will Angry Birds Make Mobile Operators Happy?
photo: Rovio
Angry Birds, the quirky mobile game that’s become a flyaway success in all app stores where it has built a nest, is on course for a new dire… Read more »
Mobile Discovery: Shazam Finds 100m Users. Has It Found Money, Too?
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A milestone reached by mobile music discovery service Shazam: the company says it has come good on its promise and reached 100,000 users, pi… Read more »
Nokia’s N8, Windows Phone 7 In Europe: Slow Burners or Burned Out?
Not a great stat if you’re a Windows or Nokia (NYSE: NOK) fan in the Old World and are hoping for some momentum behind your favorite platfor… Read more »
Google Faces A Serious And Multi-Pronged EC Competition Probe
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is about to get its most significant scrutiny yet by the European Commission, whose antitrust department is opening a fo… Read more »
TV Academy Ponders Its Future With Help From Intel
photo: Intel's Brian David Johnson
Intel Corp. (NSDQ: INTC) futurists gave the Academy Television Arts & Sciences’s technology-minded members a glimpse of what’s to come for t… Read more »
Redbox Won’t Rush To Stream Movies, But It Should
photo: Eddie Does Japan
Coinstar confirmed its intent to transition Redbox into online streaming next year but is still in negotiations to find the right partner, t… Read more »
Boxee Adds Vudu In Time For Box Release
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The Boxee Box will go to market next month with Vudu, the digital movie service Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) acquired earlier this year. Read more »
Redbox To Announce Streaming Partner Thursday; Is It Wal-Mart or Amazon?
photo: Eddie Does Japan
Redbox is set to announce a partner for its entry into the streaming business Thursday on parent company Coinstar’s third-quarter earnings c… Read more »
Apple Still Has 99 Problems, But A Music Patent Lawsuit Isn’t One of Them
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What’s the rap lyric? “Mo’ money mo’ problems?” Or better yet, “with success comes stress?” Well, in the corporate world, oversized success… Read more »
Google, Facebook Facing Further European Scrutiny
Who’d be a big American web company in Europe?
Two of the biggest, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Facebook, have been facing scrutiny in the union… Read more »
Greek Plan To Tax Web Ads At 21.5 Percent Draws Fire
One way Greece hopes to extricate itself from its economic crisis? Tax its news websites.
In pension reform law due to be voted upon by par… Read more »
Fallout: France Provides Details On WiFi Data Google Collected
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So, what did the private WiFi data that Google disclosed last month it had been mistakenly collecting consist of? French data protection off… Read more »
Google ‘Mistakenly’ Collected Private Web Data As Part Of Street View
photo: Corbis / Jane Marinsky
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) says that contrary to its prior statements it has in fact been collecting private information sent over Wi-Fi networks,… Read more »
EU Is The Latest To Criticize Facebook’s Privacy Changes
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Poor Facebook. It’s in the midst of a very loud uprising by the tech elite over its latest batch of privacy changes — and it’s still being… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: CNBC On Livestation, EC Market, Spotify, Five VOD
– CNBC on Livestation: The freemium live TV news aggregator app and website is adding CNBC to its subscription service, cost: Read more »
Privacy Watchdogs Call On Google For Tighter Controls
By Paul Harris: Britain’s privacy watchdog has joined senior government officials from nine other countries to push Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to a… Read more »
European Telcos Want Search Engines To Pay For Net Use
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When O2 parent Telefonica’s CEO suggested, during a Bilbao press conference back in February, that maybe search engines should pay him for u… Read more »
EU Court: Not Google’s Fault If AdWords Clients Buy Louis Vuitton Keywords
By Mark Sweney: The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today ruled in favour of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in a long-running court battle with Louis V… Read more »
Microsoft To Google: Grow Up And Deal With The EC
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has loudly suggested that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is behind the European Commission’s preliminary antitrust inquiry into… Read more »
Google’s Bad Europe Week Continues: EU Raises Concerns About ‘Street View’
photo: Robert Andrews
It certainly has not been the best week for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in Europe: The EC opened a preliminary antitrust inquiry against the company… Read more »
Google Gets The Microsoft Treatment In Europe; EC Opens Antitrust Inquiry
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which has faced three antitrust inquiries in the U.S. over the last year, is now facing its first in Europe. The WSJ sa… Read more »
Microsoft’s About To Lose More Web Browser Users
Windows 95′s big OS-browser integration is now but a memory – from March 1, and likely through gritted teeth, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will st… Read more »
France’s ISP Tax Draws A European Competition Inquiry
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy went down pretty badly with ISPs, mobile operators and commercial broadcasters when in 2008 he announced he… Read more »
German Media Tag-Teaming Against Google ‘Monopoly’
Four of Germany’s largest media groups are set to form a shared web advertising network, after winning clearance from the European Commissio… Read more »
Microsoft’s Bing To Cut Time It Keeps User Search Data; Will Google Follow Suit?
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Under pressure from European regulators, Microsoft’s Bing is finally cutting the amount of time it stores some user search data. The company… Read more »
Microsoft Avoids Another EC Fine By Pledging Browser Choice
The battle of the browser is over, at least for a while… The European Commission’s anti-trust department said on Wednesday that it has acc… Read more »
EC Shuffle: Bane Of Microsoft To Lead ‘Digital Agenda’
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Europe’s information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding is moving on from the portfolio after five years, instead shifting to run… Read more »
Europe Drops Four-Year Antitrust Probe Into Qualcomm
photo: Qualcomm
The European Commission is not taking any action against Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and has stopped investigating the chipmaker after four lookin… Read more »
European Telco Package Doesn’t Guarantee Legal Hearing For Web Disconnections
Europeans should only lose their internet connection after a “a prior, fair and impartial procedure”, according to new legislation passed in… Read more »
EC Sets Two Month Deadline On UK Privacy Law Legal Threat
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Remember when the European Commission threatened the UK with legal action over its online privacy and data protection laws in April? The EC… Read more »
UK Will Urge EC To Legalise Mashups, Format-Shifting, Content Sharing
Lord Mandelson’s three-strikes proposal may have gobbled all the headlines. But a parallel package published Wednesday, aimed at liberalisin… Read more »
