Updated: Nokia Presses On: Updates Symbian, Launches E6 And X7
Last week, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) promised some Symbian news, and today we have it: the company is today is launching its E6 and X7 devices, runn… Read more »
Mediastay Funded For Online Games, Offers, Marketing
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Paris-based Mediastay, which deploys web games to take in money and consumer data for marketing purposes, has raised a $21.5 million VC roun… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-11-11: Verizon iPhone, Thunderbolt; Jobs Biography
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: the iPhone is the current best-seller at Verizon while some are murmuring about the HTC… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-07-11
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» Cost of NYT paywall estimated at $25 million (paidContent)
» Facebook About To Launch Its Groupon Clone? (Business… Read more »
@ AADigital: EA’s Riccitiello: Games Dominate TV (In Reach, But Not Ads)
John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts took the stage at the Ad Age Digital conference to make a pitch to advertisers: in terms of reach,… Read more »
GameStop Doubles-Down On Digital With Two Buys
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Dominant video game retailer GameStop has purchased two companies as it continues to try to establish itself as a place where gamers will go… Read more »
myYearbook Buys Five Android Mobile Apps
Teen-focused social net myYearbook is trying to build up its mobile side with the acquisition of five Android apps and a multiplayer engine… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-30-11: Google In-App Payment Users; Tablets; Three
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google’s Android in-app payments service gets some early users — and maybe some confus… Read more »
Lionsgate Considers More Series For ‘Streaming First’ Releases
As the idea of straight-to-streaming video has become a fairly common idea among Hollywood studios — at least as an “experiment” — Lionsga… Read more »
Thumbplay Sells Its Ringtone Business To SendMe Mobile
Looks like game over for Thumbplay as a standalone entity: we have learned that the mobile content company’s last remaining asset — its rin… Read more »
SocialVibe Raises $20 Million For ‘Engagement’ Ads
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SocialVibe, which has developed “engagement ad units” used by a number of big-name sites and Facebook apps, has raised $20 million in a new… Read more »
Rovio And Angry Birds Shoot For IPO Market In Five Years
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Luckily for Rovio, raising cash from the public markets might be easier than trying to make the bird with the long beak spin back onto the p… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-15-11
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» Facebook Said to Hire Google Executive for M&A
» Microsoft Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to IE
» Rick Levine… Read more »
SCVNGR’s Seth Priebatsch: Facebook’s Days At The Top Are Numbered
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Seth Priebatsch unleashed 180 seconds of organised chaos on SXSW Interactive this weekend. The founder of business location tool SCVNGR want… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-14-11
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» Engadget’s Top Editors Topolsky and Patel Exit From AOL’s Giant Tech Site
» Postscript: Aggregation Aggro
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For Sale On eBay: Best-Selling App iFart, But Few Bidders So Far
Ah yes, that tasteful novelty app that simulates flatulation. The creator, Joel Comm, is now trying to sell the app on eBay, to put more foc… Read more »
Fourth Wall Studios Gets $15 Million For Transmedia Production
Fourth Wall Studios, a firm that has created transmedia marketing extensions for movies like Watchmen and Eagle Eye, will launch an “alterna… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown: Apple’s Cloud; Motorola And HTML5 Gaming; Twitter; Samsung
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Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today we look at the newest reports around Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and cloud services; Motorola’s n… Read more »
Why Rocketpack Entered Disney’s Orbit
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If you believe Disney’s every digital-minded move is dictated by board member Steve Jobs, note that its latest acquisition, Rocketpack, is i… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown: Nokia, Apple iPad Pricing, Square, Disney
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Nokia’s MeeGo payoff; what the ASP of today’s iPad tells us about what’s next; Square hits $1… Read more »
War Games Make Up For Music Losses At Vivendi
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has reported a strong performance in 2010 with huge sales of Call of Duty boosting earnings in its games division by more… Read more »
Grey Area Gets $2.6 Million To Build Out Location-Aware Gaming Business
Nokia’s stock may have dipped to 1998 levels in the last few days on worries about its new smartphone strategy with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT),… Read more »
Eurogamer Buying IndustryGamers.com For U.S. Expansion
Eurogamer Network, the successful independent gaming news and reviews site started by two English brothers, is buying out Hammersuit, the pu… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.14.2011
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» Social gamer Zynga is looking to raise $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up betwe… Read more »
Console Social Platform Raptr Takes $15 Million Funding
Mountain View-based Raptr, one of a few social systems for connecting console gamers through the web, has taken on $15 million more in ventu… Read more »
Mobile Apps To Watch: It Comes Down To 10 Categories, Gaming Not Included
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The other week, Gartner projected that mobile apps would generate revenues of $15.9 billion in 2012; now they’ve drilled down into that numb… Read more »
IAC’s Mindspark Buys VoxPop’s Gaming Platform
Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) unit that houses various online contest and gaming properties, has acquired the gaming p… Read more »
Disney Interactive Revenues Surged As Segment’s Loss Widened
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All in all, The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company’s fiscal Q1 was solid, buttressed by strong performance at its cable networks, theme parks a… Read more »
HTC Puts $40 Million In Gaming Co OnLive; Will Launch a Tablet At MWC?
Less than 24 hours after announcing that it would pay $48.5 million to buy mobile video specialists Saffron Digital, it has announced one mo… Read more »
Smartphone Usage Up 60 Percent; Android Makes Biggest Gains
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Smartphone usage has grown by an astounding 60 percent in the last year in the U.S., but the latest figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) show… Read more »
Super Bowl XLV: Sony Ericsson Plays With Android In New Xperia Ad
With a Super Bowl commercial grafting human “gaming” thumbs onto a now-familiar green Android, *Sony* Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is finally going… Read more »
Industry Moves Roundup: Vodafone; Booyah; Nexius
– Vodafone: Gerard Kleisterlee will be the next chairman of Vodafone, succeeding Sir John Bond, who is retiring in July 2011. Kleisterlee i… Read more »
Electronic Arts’ Digital Sales Jump 39 Percent
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Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), which has invested heavily in its digital business through a series of recent acquisitions, including the purc… Read more »
Google Goes Native, Moves Into App Development?
Here’s another advance in that debate over whether apps or the mobile web will be the dominant way of accessing mobile content in the years… Read more »
MLBAM Building Mobile Ad System For Live, In-Game Ads
Major League Baseball Advanced Media plans to pick a vendor next week to build a mobile ad platform and have it in place within a month afte… Read more »
Nokia Strikes Deals With Sina, Tencent To Capitalize On Its Lead In China
Nokia’s results yesterday showed how important China is to the handset maker. While market share in already-challenging markets like the U.S… Read more »
PwC: Media M&A’s Still Hot In ’11; But Long-Term Debt Worries Persist
Not that anyone needed more proof that 2010 was a busy year for media deals, PwC’s look at M&A activity in the space finds that the amount o… Read more »
Sony Fights Two-Front War With New NGP Device And PlayStation App
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is not yet announcing a “PlayStation Phone” — that, supposedly, is being saved for the Mobile World Congress event in Barc… Read more »
GeekChicDaily Partners With Legendary Pictures, Gets More Funding
GeekChicDaily, an e-mail newsletter devoted to all things pop culture, is loading up on more funding and friends in Hollywood and beyond. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-21-11
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» With even digital music sales flagging these days, it’s hardly surprising that Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), one of the four… Read more »
