Industry Moves: Turner/MySpace; thePlatform; Hotwire; Kirusa
– Turner Broadcasting: The company has confirmed that Anthony Lukom is VP and GM of UK and Ireland for Turner in Europe. He will lead the b… Read more »
Nokia’s Asset Offload Continues: Messaging Biz Goes To Synchronica For $25M
The streamlining at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continues apace. Today it was announced that the Finnish company has sold its North American messaging… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-23-11: Foursquare; T-Mo iPhone; Hulu Android
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Foursquare: The check-in app has signed a deal with American Express to offer special… 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 »
Google Street View Cameras Halted In India
photo: Corbis / Julian Stratenschulte
Google’s now infamous Street View camera cars only set to work on the streets of Bangalore last month, but already Indian authorities have o… Read more »
Infographic: Nokia Makes A Good Showing On Ads, Despite All Its Problems
photo: Corbis / Joel W. Rogers
One good thing you can say about Nokia: it may be losing marketshare, but those that are sticking around are pretty dedicated and sticky use… Read more »
Nokia Sets Out To Prove It’s Still An Asian Tiger
Nokia’s top guns are assembling for a one-day conference in Singapore, as the handset maker tries to fight off in Asia the same kind of atta… 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 »
Cricket’s World Cup Was Huge For Mobile Media
The mobile is already the computer in many markets, it seems. In some of the countries where cricket is most popular, the recent ICC Cricket… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-08-11: iPad 2; GoldSpot; Camera Phones; Sprint/India
photo: Tom Krazit
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: question mark over iPad 2 sale numbers at Best Buy; mobile advertising startup GoldSpot… Read more »
Money Flows To Mobile Startups: Appia, Apperian, Bubble Motion, And Others
photo: Material Boy
It may not be $41 million, but there are still serious funds flowing into the mobile sector at the moment, and the companies taking advantag… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-29-11: RIM; Best Buy WiMax; NFC
photo: AP Images
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 »
@ Media Summit: AOL’s Armstrong: Layoffs Today, Hiring Tomorrow
Update: CEO Tim Armstrong’s full memo to staffers.
AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage at Bloomberg Media Summit and confirmed… Read more »
Updated: AOL’s Post-HuffPo Layoff Round Begins; 700 Jobs Affected In India
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Last week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong told the crowd at paidContent 2011 that layoffs — aka “job changes” — were coming following t… Read more »
@ MWC: Meet One Of The ‘Others’ In The Smartphone Game
photo: Ingrid Lunden
You know those numbers from Gartner that show how the biggest marketshare in mobile today, collectively, goes to a plethora of smaller playe… Read more »
How News Corp Plans To Profit From Mobile Audio Subscriptions In India
Forget iPads and smartphone apps – in India, the real “new media” are basic feature phones.
Media companies aren’t letting the market’s rel… Read more »
India Ad Net Komli Raises $15 Million For Regional Expansion
Following two fairly big acquisitions designed to expand its regional presence, Indian ad network Komli is preparing to do some deals. The M… Read more »
India Digital Marketer Ybrant Raises $48 Million Financing
Hyderabad-based digital marketer Ybrant Digital took a break from its international shopping spree last year, but it says its looking to buy… Read more »
Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ Disappears In 27 Markets
Nokia’s struggle to compete against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), and drive more sales of its own smartphones, hit a new low today, as the Finnish com… Read more »
Adieu, Modu, We Hardly Knew Ye
Israeli handset maker Modu — which developed the concept of a super-light, super-small smartphones that can be customised with different ou… Read more »
Blyk Pairs With Aircel For Ads In India, Returns To Free Rewards
photo: Blyk
Blyk, the mobile ad company that started as a “free” MVNO for 16-24 year-olds, may have found its original business model hard to execute in… Read more »
AT&T Signs Up For GetJar’s App Store, iPhone Not Included
Is this a sign of AT&T (NYSE: T) preparing for the day it loses its exclusive hold on the iPhone in the U.S.? The operator has become the la… Read more »
Peter Chernin Launches An Asian Media Venture
Peter Chernin, who stepped down as News Corp.’s chief operating officer nearly a year-and-a-half ago, is now launching a new media company b… Read more »
Mediabrands’ Domestic, Overseas Promotions Reflect Broad Changes
Over the past month, Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands unit made two high-profile moves designed to signal to clients that the media buying “i… Read more »
Nokia Expands Services To Nigeria For Growth Opportunity
photo: Flickr / GianCayetano
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be struggling to keep pace with competitors like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in developed countries, bu… Read more »
BlackBerry Fund Consolidates; Plans Silicon Valley Office And New Fund
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund today is restructuring the way it operates in order to focus exclusively on mobile investments. In addition, it… Read more »
Mobile Bits: WP7 Pricing On T-Mobile; Angry Bird Ads; Mopay Expands
– T-Mobile USA HD7 Pricing: T-Mobile USA said today that the upcoming HTC HD7, running Windows Phone 7, will be available starting Nov. 8 f… Read more »
Motricity’s Stock Jumps 30 Percent After Adding International Customer
photo: Motricity
In advance of its public offering, Motricity’s pitch to investors included the prospect of growing internationally by adding large wireless… Read more »
Indian Ad Net Komli Buying Ethnic Minority Marketer Indoor Media
Indian online advertising network Komli is buying Indoor Media, a UK-based firm helping clients market to ethnic minorities, in its latest i… Read more »
Nokia Hits 2.3 Million Downloads A Day On Ovi Store
photo: Nokia
The day after Nokia started shipping its flagship N8 smartphone, it released a furry of statistics to make the point that it was making prog… Read more »
UK’s Synchronica Buys iseemedia For Mobile E-mail Platform
UK-based mobile messaging services provider Synchronica has acquired iseemedia, a Canadian-based developer of mobile e-mail delivery platfor… Read more »
Instamedia Raises $4 Million From Times Of India Owner
Instamedia, which is best known for its Instablogs citizen journalism platform, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Times… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.27.10
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is warning Hollywood movie studios about something they likely expected all along: the company is prepa… Read more »
CBS To Launch TV Channels In India
photo: Corbis / Simon Marcus
CBS (NYSE: CBS) Studios International and Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL) Wednesday announced a deal to launch television channels… Read more »
Daum Sells Lycos To Ybrant For $36 Million
Search engine and portal operator Lycos has been sold to Indian digital marketing firm Ybrant Digital by South Korea’s Daum Communications f… Read more »
Indian Mobile Services Firm IMI Mobile To Buy Win Plc
UK mobile content and services company Win Plc announced today that it is recommending to shareholders a cash offer from the Sequoia-backed… Read more »
India Ad Net Komli Buys PostClick
Indian ad net Komli Media has acquired Australian online rep firm PostClick. The deal is intended to expand Komli’s reach across the Asia Pa… Read more »
Reliance Big Entertainment Buys 50 Percent Stake In Video Game Firm Codemasters
Reliance Big Entertainment, which owns Indian gaming firm Zapak, is buying a 50 percent stake in British video game maker Codemasters. Balde… Read more »
India’s UTV Investing In International Freemium Games Expansion
Can India do a South Korea when it comes to online gaming? Hundreds of thousands of teens there, and in China, lead the way in multiplayer g… Read more »
Indian Media Industry in 2010: TV Is The Juggernaut
In how many markets can media companies honestly say they’ll be growing in double digits this year? Exactly. The Indian media and entertainm… Read more »
