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)
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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 »
WSJ Launching German Digital-Only Editions
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Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) is building its German-language news wire service in to a full-fledged Wall Street Journal edition for Germany. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-18-11
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» Yahoo’s Levinsohn On Executive Chaos: ‘You Sort Of Get Used To It’ (paidContent)
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What Will It Take For International E-Book Markets To Take Off?
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Big U.S. publishers are now reporting that e-books now make up between 15 and 20 percent of their sales-a dramatic and quick rise since 2010… Read more »
Motorola Xoom Discounted Again In The Tablet Race To The Bottom
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There were such high hopes for the Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Xoom when it was first unveiled at the beginning of this year: meticulously crafted,… Read more »
With Sales Of Four Million, The iPhone 4S Is A New Record Breaker For Apple
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It looks like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is once again rewriting the books on what it is that makes a smartphone sell. Those who thought that the iP… Read more »
Samsung Inks Deal With Yandex For Smart TV, Bada Mobile Services In Russia
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Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inkin… Read more »
Updated: Samsung Seeks Injunctions On iPhone 4S, Adds Japan, Australia
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 »
Report: Apple’s iPad 3 Is Now Going Into Production
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On the same day that Apple’s newest smartphone, the iPhone 4S, goes on sale, comes news of the latest development in its best-selling tablet… Read more »
Microsoft Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Buy; Four Countries Yet To Approve Deal
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) today finally got the keys to Skype, so to speak: the deal for Microsoft to buy the internet telephony giant for $8.5… Read more »
BlackBerry Service Back Up. Co-CEOs Lazaridis, Balsillie Apologize, Again
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This morning RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis took to the Internet two more times, once via YouTube and once, with co-CEO Jim Balsillie, in a web… Read more »
Update: BlackBerry Outage Improving, Compensation Questions, CEO Speaks Up
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Well, that wasn’t quick. But at least it’s good news: RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) says that its services are now finally getting restored in all the re… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-12-11
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» RIM’s Service Outage Enters Day Three And Company Admits It’s In The Dark (paidContent)
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Update: BlackBerry Outage Day Three, RIM Still Investigating, U.S. Impact?
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 »
Telefonica’s O2 Tries Its Hand At Skype-Like VoIP Calls With O2 Connect
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T-Mobile has Bobsled in the U.S., and now O2 in the UK is jumping into the Internet-calling waters with a new service called O2 Connect. Read more »
Kobo France Takes Run At Le Kindle
Four days after Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the French Kindle and accompanying Kindle store, rival e-book company Kobo announced that it’s… Read more »
BlackBerry Users Revolt Against RIM As Disruption Spreads
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Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is facing a user revolt after tens of millions of users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa suff… Read more »
Two New Experiments In Book Publishing For Teens
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New initiatives from Open Road Integrated Media and Wattpad hope to draw teen readers in with webisodes, music videos, “triggered events” an… Read more »
Big Apple Indeed: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million On One Day
We’ve been hearing anecdotal evidence over the last few days, but now some official word from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) itself: the iPhone 4S is pr… Read more »
Is Consolidation In Mobile Ads Overrated? Madvertise Raises $10 Million
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We have seen some evidence of consolidation in mobile advertising, but if anything, there seem to be even more signs of investors looking to… Read more »
UK Launches LTE Trial, But Is It Falling Behind In The 4G Race?
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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 »
HuffPo Partners With Le Monde, LNEI On French Edition
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The Huffington Post is planning a French edition — Le Huffington Post — with two established partners who will share equity: The Le Monde… Read more »
RIM, Chasing Its Own iCloud, Buys NewBay For $100 Million
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Here’s an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, a… Read more »
Sony Gives A Big “No Comment” On Sony Ericsson Buyout Reports
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has declined to comment on reports that it is considering a bid to buy out Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) from its Sony Ericsson han… 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 »
Bonjour, Amazon. Kindle Store Debuts In France With Its First French Kindle
Yesterday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched its first eBookstore outside of the U.S. in the UK, but it will have to step up the pace by quite a b… Read more »
Update: Nuance’s Swype Buy Could See The Text Input System Go Large
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The other day, when a plane I was on landed in Newark, I noticed the elderly woman sitting next to me pull out a Droid Bionic and start answ… Read more »
Google eBookstore Launches In UK
In its first international launch, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore is now open for business in the UK. Australian and Canadian stores wil… Read more »
Nearly There: EU Expected To OK Microsoft’s Deal To Buy Skype
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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 »
BBC Cuts: Digital To Get £40 Million Annual ‘Innovation Fund’
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Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC — it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-06-11
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Co-Founder And Chairman Steve Jobs Has Died (paidContent)
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Microsoft Shifts Strategies To Expand Xbox Live TV, Go Global
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After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
New Service Gives Even The Most Basic Mobile Users Access To Facebook
Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s site… Read more »
That Was Quick: Samsung Files For iPhone 4S Injunctions In Europe
Less than 24 hours have passed since the iPhone 4S was introduced by Apple, and Samsung is taking no chances. The company has already announ… Read more »
Yet More Reports Of DST, Alibaba And Silver Lake Swarming Over Yahoo
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Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technolo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-04-11
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» Price-Fixing Case Against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Major Book Publishers Mushrooms (paidContent)
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Apple Goes For A Shutout In Australia, Says No To Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Deal
If it sounded like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might just agree to some kind of deal with Samsung in Australia — which would have let Samsung launch… Read more »
