Deloitte Buys In To Mobile Apps, Pays $40-50M For Apple's Friend Ubermind
Management consultancy Deloitte today became the latest company to buy into the app marketplace with the news that it has bought the Seattle… Read more »
FT Buys Its Web App Maker; CEO Ridding's Memo
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The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based… Read more »
Apple Confirms iPhone 4S To Arrive In China Next Friday
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iOS fans in China will officially get their hands on the iPhone 4S next Friday along with prospective customers in 21 other countries, Apple… Read more »
Java Phones Make A Comeback In Late 2011, But Don't Dump Android Just Yet
What provoked the sudden upsurge in feature phone usage during October? A report out over the weekend from Net Applications shows that after… Read more »
Report: Apple To Hold Event In NYC. Publishing, Advertising In The Mix?
A new year, and a crisp, new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) rumor to kick things off: the company is reportedly planning an event for the end of the mon… Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: A New Era For Apple
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This is the first in a series of posts over the next week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the secto… Read more »
Why Are Free Games More Popular On iPhones Than On Android Devices?
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Some research out from Xyologic today on app store download trends in 2011 indicates that while games have remained a popular category acros… Read more »
Report: Nokia Lumia Accounted For Only 0.17 Percent Of UK Sales In November
Some pretty damning early statistics out today for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the Lumia 800: according to a new survey, i… Read more »
HTC Says Android Patent Fix Is Ready To Go, Google Hopes For 'Patent Peace'
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HTC says it has already figured out how to ship Android phones in the U.S. that don’t run afoul of a patent held by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the… Read more »
Distimo: Apple's App Store Still Beats Android On Revenues; Freemium Rules
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but whe… Read more »
Apple Buys Israeli Flash Storage Maker In $500 Million Deal
Apple has bought Israel’s Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, for up to $500 million (£319 million), the Calcalist financial daily… Read more »
Android: 700,000 Activations Per Day, WiFi Not Included?
Late on Tuesday Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile and Android head honcho for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), gave the world the latest figures on how much And… Read more »
Millennial Media Says Kindle Fire Impressions Growing 19 Percent Each Day
We still don’t have any exact figures from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) for how many Kindle Fire tablets it has sold, but the latest figures out from… Read more »
BBC iPlayer App's iPhone Update Adds 500K New Users In A Week
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The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as i… Read more »
Can Apple Shake Up TV Like It Has Mobile With Its iPhone?
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The anticipation and speculation surrounding what could be the next product on the cards for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) — Apple TV — raises some q… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: A Crazy Year In Mobile, By The Numbers
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This is the first in a series of posts over the next week that will look at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors th… Read more »
Samsung's Anti-Apple Campaign Appears To Be Working
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Samsung phones overtook iPhone for U.S. brand perception in the week after Samsung launched a TV campaign mocking hipster fanboys and iPhone… Read more »
Flipboard's Phone Flips Beating iPad 2:1
Flipboard’s iPhone application has clocked up a million downloads in the week since it went live, the company tells paidContent. Read more »
For The iCloud Disaffected, Microsoft Offers iPhone Users Skydrive Storage
When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched its iCloud service earlier this year, it automatically gave users of its own devices 5GB of free cloud-base… Read more »
Developers Still Prefer iOS Despite Android's Huge Marketshare Gains
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The disconnect between Android’s huge marketshare and its second-tier status among many mobile developers has been clear for some time, but… Read more »
Report: Apple Courting Israeli Flash-Memory Company, Anobit
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might be looking to add some interesting flash-memory technology to its arsenal, if a report out of Israel is accurate. A… Read more »
Apple's Leagues Ahead In App Downloads: 18 Billion To Android's 10 Billion
A timely news announcement from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) one week after Google’s own Android apps milestone: Apple says that 500,000 apps have now… Read more »
Amazon's Apple-Like Growth Is Missing One Element: Rising Profits
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Considering the amount of money Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) shareholders have pocketed in recent years, Amazon deserves its spot next to Apple a… Read more »
New York Times Expands Into Freemium Apps With 'Election 2012'
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As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone ne… Read more »
Zite Joins Flipboard, Google On The iPhone In Crowded Week For News Apps
Fate probably wouldn’t have had it any other week: at the end of a week in which both Flipboard and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unveiled updated tak… 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 »
Here's How Android Has Destroyed Symbian In China
Everyone knows that Nokia’s Symbian always had little take-up in the U.S.. But, once upon a time, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) could count on a large u… Read more »
Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Be Going International Sooner Rather Than Later
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire today is only on sale in the U.S., but according to one report that Fire could be spreading to the UK as soon as Januar… Read more »
Surprise! Apple Forecasts Raised On Big Demand For iPhone 4S, But Not iPad
HTC and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may be cautioning investors about more choppy economic times ahead, but that is not the story, it seems, for all ha… Read more »
Evernote's New Hello And Food Apps Take Organizer To New Competitive Ground
Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of… Read more »
From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad's Flipboard Flips To Phone
After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form reading, iPad’s new wave of magazine-like content aggr… Read more »
In Russia, DST's Mail.ru And Yandex Ramp Up Mobile Presence
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Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ub… Read more »
Verizon Expected To Post Huge Subscriber Increase In Q4 Thanks To iPhone 4S
The launch of the iPhone 4S was a little more interesting than other iPhone launches because for the first time three carriers were on board… Read more »
Why Both You And Carrier IQ Are Pawns In The Fight For Mobile Data
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There is no question that we love our mobile devices. There’s also no question that we are paranoid about how much of ourselves we pour into… Read more »
Comscore: U.S. Mobile Market Still Two-Horse Race Between Android And Apple
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Comscore’s latest mobile numbers are out, and they continue to paint a familiar picture: Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are gaining at the e… Read more »
Facebook Appoints A New Head Of Mobile Developer Relations
If you had any doubt about Facebook’s ambitions in mobile, here’s another move that underscores the social network’s priorities. It has hire… Read more »
Carrier IQ Responds More To Privacy Allegations, But Many Questions Remain
As more detail unfolds of companies swearing off any involvement with Carrier IQ (and some admitting using it for diagnostics) amid allegati… Read more »
Report: Apple To Give 4G A Shot In Arm With Next-Generation iPad, iPhone
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We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year — with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast… Read more »
Amazon Widens Its Kindle Footprint With €99 Device On Sale In Spain, Italy
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It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today… Read more »
After Download Frenzy, Apple Cuts Cord To iTether 's iPhone Tethering App
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An iPhone application called iTether that would let iPhone users run their Mac or PC over the phone’s data connection without paying their c… Read more »
