In Belgium, Google Ponders A $215,000 Fine Over Street View
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Federal regulators in the U.S. are over it, but Google’s Street View privacy gaffe continues to produce headaches in the Europe. The long jo… Read more »
Western Europe Sees Huge Shift Toward E-Books
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Europe has lagged behind the U.S. in widespread adoption of e-books, but a new report suggests that they are finally taking off. The e-book… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-18-11: Microsoft vs. Motorola; iPad; Symbian Anna
A look at some of the top stories in mobile today:
» Motorola/Microsoft: Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility gets a setback in a paten… Read more »
Bernstein: Pearson Should Sell Off FT Group And Penguin, Focus On Education
The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell t… Read more »
Updated: Google-Motorola: The European Opportunity — And Challenges
If Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gets the green light to buy Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility for $12.5 billion, one area where the deal could be especia… Read more »
GSMA Names Orange Exec Anne Bouverot As New Head (Video)
A rather big changing of the guard at the GSMA, the global mobile trade association that runs several big trade events, including the Mobile… Read more »
Tablet Makers Have A Better Shot Against iPad In Europe, Says Forrester
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has all but cornered the market for tablets in the U.S., say researchers at Forrester, who predict that its iPad will tak… Read more »
Smartphones: Android Dominated Sales Last Quarter; UK Users Buy The Most
Given that today’s big mobile news in the UK is that BlackBerry devices (and specifically the free messaging service BlackBerry Messenger) h… Read more »
Google’s Steib Named CEO Of Amex Private Sales Site
Mike Steib, who as Google’s director for emerging platforms helped create Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV Ads, is leaving the company to become CEO o… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-27-11
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» Aegis Group is selling its market-research unit Synovate to France’s Ipsos for £525 million ($861.2 million) in a move that wi… Read more »
France Will Switch Off Pioneering Minitel After 30 Years
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It was the internet before the internet.
Now France’s Minitel, a pioneering Videotex information service used by 25 million people at its h… Read more »
Update: Everything Everywhere: Tom Alexander Out, Olaf Swantee In As CEO
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All change in the UK mobile world: Tom Alexander, the CEO of Everything Everywhere — the mobile operator JV between France Telecom’s Orange… Read more »
French Anti-Piracy Agency Tracks Millions Of File-Sharers–Investigates 10
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The entertainment industry has been pushing some version of a “three-strikes” system in countries around the world, where internet providers… Read more »
Orange Links Up With Dailymotion For Ads, Seeks The Next Don Draper
When the multinational operator France Telecom/Orange announced that it was taking an $80-million, 49-percent stake in the online video site… Read more »
Smartphones Head To ‘Tipping Point’
Android is now the top smartphone OS in eight key countries having edged past Nokia’s Symbian in Spain, according to the latest quarterly sa… Read more »
The ePresse Digital Kiosk: First Lessons
photo: Frédéric Filloux
On June 30th, the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of hard work for a very small team (the ePresse consortium… Read more »
New Google Data Shows How Governments Seek To Control Online Content
The Chinese government is notorious for censoring content on the web; to do so, it has created a cyber-security mechanism known colloquially… Read more »
La Tribune Starts Charging For More Online Content
French daily business paper La Tribune will start charging for more of its website, in a strategy to edge consumers toward a full-fledged su… Read more »
In Contrast To The U.S. iPhone Tops Survey For Most-Wanted Device In Europe
Looks like price sometimes is not always the main consideration when people are buying products — or at least when people are thinking of b… Read more »
China Is Apple’s Second-Biggest Apps Market After U.S., Free Apps Reign
photo: Getty Images / Feng Li
When it comes to battling for smartphone share in China, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is right in there with Android OEMs and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and i… Read more »
Nokia: First WP7 Devices Will Debut In Six European Markets
One of the biggest reasons that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has dumped Symbian in favor of Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is to better ta… Read more »
Infographic: Smartphones And Apps In Europe
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In the top five markets in Europe today, 46 million people actively use smartphones to access apps. Analytics company Flurry, which compiled… Read more »
Aegis In Talks To Sell Synovate Research Unit For $820 Million
More than two years after UK ad holding company Aegis first considered selling off its marketing and research unit Synovate, the company is… Read more »
Twitter And Facebook Reminders Banned From French Airwaves
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How do you say Facebook and Twitter in French? You don’t – at least, not if you are on radio or television, where French officials have ba… Read more »
Hearst Completes Deal For Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
Hearst Corp. is nearing completion of its $921 million (€640 million) acquisition of French media conglomerate Lagardère SCA. It’s finali… Read more »
New EU Rules For Online Tracking Being Delayed–Or Ignored
Today’s deadline day. Member states of the European Union are all supposed to have plans in place to change their laws so that most kinds of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-24-11
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» Dish CEO Says DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Merger Possible in Regulatory Environment (Bloomberg)
» Don’t Blame the WSJ for t… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-24-11: iPhone 5; Square; T-Mobile; Apple; Sony Ericsson
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: More confirmation of the iPhone 5 being smaller and thinner; some doubt cast on Square’… Read more »
France Lets Book Publishers Fix Minimum E-book Prices
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“French publishers can rejoice,” reports the country’s L’Express. “They should now be able to impose a single selling price for all digital… Read more »
French ‘Three Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Law On Hold After Data Breach
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In the developed world, the nation that’s arguably toughest on online copyright infringers is France. The country passed a controversial “th… Read more »
The Latest Carrier App Effort: Nokia Launches Co-Branded Ovi Storefronts
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Operators have been relatively late to the app game, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to make up for lost time by doing anything and… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-10-11: Windows Phone; Italy Mobile Payments; Nuance
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to give a preview of the next Windows Phone later this month (Skype… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-02-11: Apple Cloud; Huawei/ZTE; Time/Apple; Free Apps
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Time (NYSE: TWX) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reach a “free content” deal; more possible deta… Read more »
T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Announce New JV In Europe
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It’s not a full-out merger, but another example of how operators trying to cope with the huge rise in data usage and the pressure of price c… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-15-11: Google’s Mobile Number; Nokia India; AT&T/T-Mo
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: some of the bigger mobile takeaways from yesterday’s Google (NSDQ: GOOG) earnings; afte… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-13-11: Nokia Cuts; MNG Lists; Ozura World / Tatto
Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) reportedly making big cuts in its R&D staffing; mobile marketing agency M… Read more »
Vodafone Sells 44 Percent SFR Stake To Vivendi For £6.8 Billion. VZW Next?
At last, an end to Vodafone’s French saga, and another chapter in the mobile operator’s continuing sell-off of assets that it does not contr… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-31-11
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» How is The Daily doing so far? 500,000 downloads, (perhaps) 75,000 regular users (not all of them paying subs, however). (Mixed… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-29-11: RIM; Best Buy WiMax; NFC
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Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: reports of RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) looking at investing in India; Best Buy starts up its WiMax… Read more »
The iPad Abroad: Apple Holds Firm On March 25 Ship Date
photo: Tom Krazit
Despite the big stories about the iPad 2 selling out in the U.S., and the question marks over how events in Japan might affect consumer elec… Read more »
