Orange Will Bring Three New, Cheap 'Facebook Phones' To Europe And Africa
Remember the “Facebook phones” launched by HTC and INQ earlier this year that gave users a hotlink to the social network and integrated the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more »
Samsung Wins The Right To March Trial In Bid To Ban iPhone 4S In Australia
photo: Samsung
One more development in the legal fight between Samsung and Apple: a court in Australia has granted a March date for a case being brought by… Read more »
In Android/Apple Fight, Samsung Says It Won't Seek Korean iPhone 4S Ban
photo: Seoul: skinnylawyer // Android: Robert Andrews
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gained another victory in its ongoing worldwide legal battle against Samsung. The Korean giant says it will not seek… Read more »
Penguin Launches 'Penguin Shorts' E-Singles Series
photo: Penguin UK
Penguin is the latest publisher to test out e-singles with the launch of Penguin Shorts, an ongoing digital series of original fiction and n… Read more »
AOL Has A Profitable Mobile Business, But It's Not Because Of Apps Or Ads
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has banked a lot of its fortunes on selling advertising around a group of high-traffic web properties. But just as it still… Read more »
Mobile Ad Firm 4INFO Names Tim Jenkins CEO. Zaw Thet Now 'Chief Evangelist'
photo: 4INFO
So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company… Read more »
Bruised Apple To Sell Unlocked iPhone 4S Just As Sprint Tightens Grip
photo: Getty Images / Oli Scarff
Coincidence or design? Today came not one but two developments on the state of unlocked iPhone 4S devices: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will start to… Read more »
Roll On, Digital Reorganization. Telefonica Posts First Loss In Nine Years
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Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket — centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit — and w… Read more »
Ideal Binary Takes Funding For Its Fairy Tale Book-App Ambitions
Irish developer Ideal Binary has raised €750k (around £642k) to fuel its ambitions in the increasingly competitive book-apps market. The… Read more »
Self-Published British Author Sues For Libel Over Bad Amazon Review
In his self-published book The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know, British entrepreneur Chris McGrath set out t… Read more »
While Waiting On The DOJ, T-Mobile USA Sees Year's First Subscriber Growth
T-Mobile USA’s declining fortunes drove it to a merger with AT&T (NYSE: T), but while that deal continues to be investigated by regulators a… Read more »
French Papers Buddy With Google For Kiosk Payments, Product Development
photo: Frédéric Filloux
The combined digital kiosk of eight French newspapers is adopting Google’s OnePass to facilitate all its customer payments beside iOS. Read more »
Spanish Newspaper La Vanguardia Starts Publishing E-Books
photo: La Vanguardia
Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is launching an e-book publishing program, “E-books De Vanguardia.” It appears to be the first Spanish newsp… Read more »
A Tale Of Two Strategies: Home And Away With Orange And Vodafone
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are… Read more »
Index Ventures Launches $690M Fund To Invest In Late-Stage Startups
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Index Ventures, the London-based venture capital firm best known for investing in LoveFilm and Skype, has defied the eurozone debt crisis to… Read more »
Mobile Startup Funding: Strangeloop $10 Million; Urban Airship $15 Million
photo: Flickr / Tracy O
What will be the most-used medium for consuming mobile content in the future: the web or apps? It’s a question that gets hotly debated, and… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
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» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more »
Microsoft: Talking To Huawei For Android Patent License; Inks Openwave Deal
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be adding one more OEM to its list of Android licensees, and this one is a biggie: Huawei, the ambitious Chines… Read more »
The Android Pile-Up On Apple In Europe: Motorola Gets Injunction In Germany
photo: Tricia Duryee
Apple’s latest Android nemesis in Europe? Not Samsung, and not a small-time Spanish tablet maker, but Motorola: the company, currently getti… Read more »
Update: UK High Court OKs Appeal Of Part Of Meltwater Copyright Case
Looks like a small window of opportunity has opened for Meltwater News Service and the Public Relations Consultants Association in its case… Read more »
Netflix And MGM Ink Exclusive Streaming Deal For UK And Ireland
photo: Warner Bros.
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is laying some content groundwork for its launch in the UK and Ireland, expected in early 2012: today it announced a de… Read more »
Not The Best Buy After All: Carphone Warehouse JV To Shut UK Shops
photo: NNECAPA
Best Buy is one of the biggest and most influential retailers of mobile phones and other gadgets in the U.S. — impacting pricing for other… Read more »
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 »
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
photo: Triborough
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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
photo: Pottermore
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
photo: Tom Krazit
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 »
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 »
Amazon Expects ‘Record Quarter’ For Device Sales, Continues Push Into Video
photo: Amazon
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 »
