Apple Sues Motorola In San Diego To Stop German Patent Case
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Where will this all end? Both Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are sitting on billions in cash and seem intent on blowing a good p… Read more »
Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad–But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy
photo: Amazon
The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more »
Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Ge… Read more »
Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission
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The ongoing, back-and-forth legal fight that is the Apple/Samsung patent dispute today took on a new dimension in one of its key battlegroun… Read more »
Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service — on… Read more »
Kantar: Apple Back On Top As Bestselling Smartphone In The U.S.
Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is b… Read more »
Jon Miller, News Corp.: It’s All About Video For Us Right Now
photo: DLD
Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on v… Read more »
Will Groupon's Deal With Deutsche Telekom Be A Winning Template For Growth?
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will… Read more »
T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom Inks Multiscreen Deal With MobiTV
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, to… Read more »
Meet Europe's (And The U.S.'s?) Newest Mobile Operator: China Telecom
photo: Robert S. Donovan
China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies lik… Read more »
Wanna Download A Free Movie With No Legal Worries? Go Dutch.
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Some countries in Europe, like France, are looking at ways of extending their copyright protection laws to streamed media, in addition to ex… Read more »
Rhapsody Now Has One Million Music Subs In The U.S. Next Stop: Europe
It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million… Read more »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
photo: In Veritas Lux
Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Axel Springer Becomes Industry's Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
photo: Axel Springer
The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west. Read more »
Updated: In Samsung v. Apple, Are Injunctions A Viable Nuclear Option?
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Two more advances in the ongoing, international fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android tablet maker Samsung over alleged patent violat… Read more »
Android Store Opens In Oz, But It Won't Have The Galaxy Tab 10.1 Just Yet
One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answ… Read more »
Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab The All-Clear But Is It Too Late?
photo: Samsung
A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimous… Read more »
IPCom Threatens Injunction On HTC In Germany, But HTC Brushes It Off
The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement… Read more »
White Friday For Samsung: A Lifeline In Aussie Galaxy Tablet Injunction?
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Could there be a little glimmer of light at the end of the tablet injunction tunnel for Samsung in Australia? With Christmas now exactly one… Read more »
RIM, Apple, Microsoft All Taking A Swipe At NFC Mobile Payment Technology
As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just… Read more »
Nokia Delists From Frankfurt Stock Exchange As Trading In Its Stock Shrinks
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has been working through a massive cost-cutting downsizing program, laying off thousands of employees, closing plants, and… Read more »
Apple Adversary Zuora Raises $36 Million For Subscription Services
Big funding round for the digital content subscription and billing specialist Zuora: the company has raised $36 million in a Series D round… Read more »
In Android/Apple Fight, Samsung Says It Won't Seek Korean iPhone 4S Ban
photo: Seoul: skinnylawyer // Android: Robert Andrews
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gained another victory in its ongoing worldwide legal battle against Samsung. The Korean giant says it will not seek… Read more »
Roll On, Digital Reorganization. Telefonica Posts First Loss In Nine Years
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Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket — centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit — and w… Read more »
While Waiting On The DOJ, T-Mobile USA Sees Year's First Subscriber Growth
T-Mobile USA’s declining fortunes drove it to a merger with AT&T (NYSE: T), but while that deal continues to be investigated by regulators a… Read more »
A Tale Of Two Strategies: Home And Away With Orange And Vodafone
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are… Read more »
The Android Pile-Up On Apple In Europe: Motorola Gets Injunction In Germany
photo: Tricia Duryee
Apple’s latest Android nemesis in Europe? Not Samsung, and not a small-time Spanish tablet maker, but Motorola: the company, currently getti… Read more »
Samsung Requests Depositions For Apple’s Jony Ive, Others By December
Another development in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) versus Android patent story as the various cases work their way through the courts. Samsung ha… Read more »
A Spanish Android Tablet Maker You’ve Never Heard Of Beats Apple In Court
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been going tooth and nail after big Android device makers, especially Samsung, accusing them in courts worldwide of l… Read more »
Kantar: Android Was The Only OS Whose Sales Grew In All Markets It Surveys
We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs — and the popularity of some specific… 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 »
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 »
With Sales Of Four Million, The iPhone 4S Is A New Record Breaker For Apple
photo: Staci D. Kramer
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 »
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
photo: Tom Krazit
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 »
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?
photo: Corbis
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 »
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 »
Microsoft Shifts Strategies To Expand Xbox Live TV, Go Global
photo: Microsoft
After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
The Rising iPhone Tide Will Lift Some Carrier Boats More Than Others
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Only one day left to iPhone news nirvana, and a lot of leaks are coming through about who will get to sell the device — and what, exactly,… Read more »
