Mobile Lowdown 9-7-11: Phone Tracking; RIM; iPhone 5; iPad Australia
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» A victory for civil liberties companies, and a possible shadow for some mobi… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» A victory for civil liberties companies, and a possible shadow for some mobi… Read more »
Barring some explosive revelation, Carol Bartz is out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) because she couldn’t show any way up. During the Q2 earni… Read more »
The operator Telefonica — owner of many mobile and fixed businesses spanning from Latin America to Europe — is getting its digital house i… Read more »
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Baidu’s determination to get a piece of the action in China’s fast-growing mobile market has yielded plans for an app store and mobile platf… Read more »
The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) board will look a little different after the company’s Oct. 21 annual shareholders meeting but, so far, not when… Read more »
» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
» Techcrunch’s Arringto… Read more »
Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU), the search-portal provider and “Google (NSDQ: GOOG) of China,” has made a key move into the world of mobile today: it is… Read more »
» Hulu Japan Launches WIth Movies, TV From CBS (NYSE: CBS), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) & More But No Ads (paidContent)
With a lot of the focus in the mobile universe on Android, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and what is happening in the smartphone segment, it’s easy to… Read more »
A good deal of the double-digit growth rates behind display dollars this year and next is due to rising interest in Facebook as an ad medium… Read more »
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The rapid growth of me-too daily deal services was bound to see a turn at some point, and it looks like that moment has come. Today, it emer… Read more »
A sign of Twitter’s growing power, and increasing need to interface with government to get its message across: the company has hired a new h… Read more »
Facebook is never one to shy away from a good legal throw-down, but it has quietly settled a trademark tangle with Lamebook, a site that rep… Read more »
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Groupon may be in a quiet period as it gears up for its IPO, but it has been the subject of many a story questioning its business. Now, a le… Read more »
Another social media service bites the dust. Facebook has today announced that it is shutting down Facebook Deals, a daily deals service tha… Read more »
Word of mouth is one of the best means of marketing a product, but sometimes the process needs a little help to get started. Help in the for… Read more »
The government has climbed down on plans to ban suspected rioters from using social networking websites in times of civil unrest. Read more »
When Facebook announced that it would be folding Places check-ins into status updates, some took it as a sign that the company was bowing to… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Gowalla cuts down its features and takes a hard look at what people were act… Read more »
Facebook and Twitter are preparing to face down UK government ministers over calls to ban people from social networks or shut their websites… Read more »
MSN China and RenRen, the Facebook-like Chinese social network, have signed a wide-ranging strategic cooperation pact that will enhance the… Read more »
Facebook has been sizing up the mobile world with hungry eyes for a while now — more than one-third of the social network’s 750-million-plu… Read more »
Facebook has announced a re-vamping of its privacy settings today, with the intent of making clear to users just how much sharing they’re do… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p.
The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» RIM launched three new BlackBerry devices today, extensions of its Curve ran… Read more »
» Newspapers Edit Down Outlooks (WSJ)
» Murdoch told me to have someone followed: Buttrose (ABC News)
» T… Read more »
Tom noted the other day how the two big news stories that bookended last week — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) buying Motorola (NYSE: MMI), and HP (NY… Read more »
Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new — Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But toda… Read more »
While regulators have yet to give Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) the final approval to buy Skype, the Internet communications company is making some… Read more »
Facebook has said for months that the contract Paul Ceglia presented to the world in April is an elaborate fraud-a “cut-and-paste job.” Now,… Read more »
GOOD, the media platform whose tagline is “for people who give a damn,” is acquiring Jumo, the social action site founded by Facebook (and O… Read more »
» If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they’re particularly horrifying for news publishers. (Ken Doctor/Ni… Read more »
If you want to share what you’re reading with your social network, there are a couple different ways to do it, none of which are totally str… Read more »
The controversy about location-tracking on mobile devices, and the subsequent emphasis on location-based services in mobile advertising, may… Read more »
» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App (paidContent)
» Angry Birds Spread… Read more »
As it has rolled out a series of improvements to its messaging features, Facebook has been trying to encourage its users to think of its net… Read more »
A famed spammer’s long career in the business looks like it’s coming to a close, and could end with a prison sentence. Sanford Wallace-long… Read more »
Paul Ceglia-the upstate New Yorker who has sued Facebook, saying he actually owns half of Mark Zuckerberg’s share of the company-still hasn’… Read more »
Facebook really doesn’t like websites that have names sounding similar its own. The company has gone after Teachbook, and also filed suit ag… Read more »
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