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 »
Once Display’s Ad Sales Leader, Trends Now Favor Yahoo Rivals
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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 »
Telefonica’s Gamble: Will Putting Its Digital Assets Into One Unit Work?
photo: Flickr / Ross Elliot
The operator Telefonica — owner of many mobile and fixed businesses spanning from Latin America to Europe — is getting its digital house i… Read more »
Big News For Dell: Its Devices Will Be Used By Baidu In Mobile Assault
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 »
Murdoch Shakes Up News Corp. Board (But Not The Way You Might Think)
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 »
The Morning Lowdown 09-02-11
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» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
» Techcrunch’s Arringto… Read more »
The Latest App Store, From China’s Search Giant Baidu: ‘Baidu Yi’
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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 »
The Morning Lowdown 09-01-11
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» Hulu Japan Launches WIth Movies, TV From CBS (NYSE: CBS), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) & More But No Ads (paidContent)
&#… Read more »
Big Money For SMS-Based Social Media: India’s SMS GupShup Takes $10 Million
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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 »
Older Facebook Users Click On Ads, Younger Ones Only ‘Like’
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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 »
Updated: Sale Ending Soon? Yelp Rethinks Its Daily Deals Service
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 »
Twitter Ramps Up Its DC Presence, Hires New Public Policy Head
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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 »
Why Facebook Decided To Settle With Lamebook
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 »
The End Of Social Media 1.0
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Follow us on Twitter.
Like us on Facebook.
And soon enough we’ll start seeing +1 or circle us on Google+.
I would like to talk about an… Read more »
Groupon: Daily Deals Site Toots Its Own Horn In An Internal Memo
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 »
Deal Or No Deal? Facebook Shuts Down Daily Deals, But Keeps Check-In Deals?
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 »
Why More Marketers Are Paying For Blog Posts, Tweets And Video Mentions
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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 »
UK Government Backs Down On Plan To Shut Twitter And Facebook In Crises
photo: Getty Images / Dan Istitene
The government has climbed down on plans to ban suspected rioters from using social networking websites in times of civil unrest. Read more »
Updated: Developer: Facebook Places Check-In More Popular Than Foursquare
photo: Foursquare
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 »
Mobile Lowdown 8-26-11: Gowalla; Cheap Nokias; Skype; Microsoft
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 Will Oppose Being Blocked During Riots
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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 Ties With RenRen In China – Whither Facebook?
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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’s Mobile Missteps: Places Axed; HTC Status Phone In Question
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 Users Get A New Way To Fight Embarrassing Photos
photo: Corbis / Brooks Kraft
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 »
BBCWW Selling Top Gear Episodes With Facebook Credits
photo: BBC
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 »
Mobile Lowdown 8-23-11: RIM; Apple iPhone; Erply; HP; Riots; Patents
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 »
The Morning Lowdown 08-22-11
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» Newspapers Edit Down Outlooks (WSJ)
» Murdoch told me to have someone followed: Buttrose (ABC News)
» T… Read more »
Updated: Shifting Sands In Mobile Could Be A Boost For Microsoft And WP7
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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 »
Miramax Launching Multi-Title Facebook Movie App In U.S., UK & Turkey
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 »
Updated: Skype Buys GroupMe, Looks To Ramp Up Its Group Messaging Services
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 Says It’s Got The Real Ceglia-Zuckerberg Contract
photo: Paul Ceglia / ZDNet
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 »
Updated: GOOD Buys Facebook Vet Chris Hughes’ Jumo
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 »
The Morning Lowdown 08-12-11
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» 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 »
Google Plus Is Better Than Facebook For Book Sharing
photo: Flickr / Jon Feinstein
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 »
Mobile Advertising: Personalized Ads, Coupons Score With Users
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The controversy about location-tracking on mobile devices, and the subsequent emphasis on location-based services in mobile advertising, may… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-10-11
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» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App (paidContent)
» Angry Birds Spread… Read more »
Facebook Unveils Distinct Mobile Messaging App For Group Chats, Texts
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 »
The Wages Of Spam: ‘Spam King’ Who Hit Facebook, MySpace May Go To Jail
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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 »
Facebook: We’ve Got ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence Against Paul Ceglia
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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 »
Shagbook Attacks Facebook’s Trademark, Calling It Generic
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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 »
