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Japan’s Docomo buying mobile content powerhouse Buongiorno for €224 million

By Robert Andrews May. 15, 2012, 4:51am 1 Comment

Japan’s largest mobile telco is about to buy in to mobile media content in Europe and farther afield, by acquiring one of the space’s pioneer companies. Read More »

Amazon reportedly making progress with Japanese publishers

By Rick Martin, Tech In Asia Apr. 18, 2012, 4:26am No Comments

Six months after first reports emerged Amazon was negotiating to take e-books Japan, it has reportedly struck its first such deal. Read More »

Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?

By Laura Hazard Owen Feb. 13, 2012, 8:20pm Comments Off

Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read More »

More Android Forking? Disney Teams Up With Japan’s Docomo For 2 New Phones

By Ingrid Lunden Feb. 1, 2012, 4:24pm Comments Off

Disney (NYSE: DIS) Mobile, the short-lived U.S. MVNO that found a new lease of life in Japan through a Softbank JV in 2008, has now launched… Read More »

Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 31, 2012, 7:00pm Comments Off

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 »

Report: Yahoo To Name PayPal Head As CEO. Sign Of A More Commercial Push?

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 4, 2012, 5:49pm Comments Off

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011 — not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken f… Read More »

Happy App Year: Downloads Pass 1 Billion/Week, U.S. Way Ahead Of The Rest

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 3, 2012, 5:13pm Comments Off

The smartphone and tablet buying rush over the holidays spilled over into a corresponding deluge of app downloads, with the total weekly num… Read More »

Japan Is The World's Mobile Advertising Powerhouse

By Robert Andrews Dec. 19, 2011, 4:00pm Comments Off

Imagine a land where mobile advertising meets all the lofty forecasts. That land is Japan, which is showing the industry the future of the s… Read More »

Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines

By Ingrid Lunden Dec. 14, 2011, 4:47pm Comments Off

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 »

Updated: In Samsung v. Apple, Are Injunctions A Viable Nuclear Option?

By Ingrid Lunden Dec. 9, 2011, 5:03pm Comments Off

Two more advances in the ongoing, international fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android tablet maker Samsung over alleged patent violat… Read More »

Updated: Apple TV Streaming Quietly Goes International

By Ingrid Lunden Dec. 8, 2011, 7:36pm 1 Comment

Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream sho… Read More »

Report: Apple To Give 4G A Shot In Arm With Next-Generation iPad, iPhone

By Ingrid Lunden Dec. 1, 2011, 9:49pm Comments Off

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 »

Far-East Round-Up: Social, Mobile Gaming Are Soaring

Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab The All-Clear But Is It Too Late?

EyeSight Gets Its Hands On $4.2 Million For Gesture Control Technology

In Android/Apple Fight, Samsung Says It Won't Seek Korean iPhone 4S Ban

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