The Morning Lowdown 03-14-11
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» Engadget’s Top Editors Topolsky and Patel Exit From AOL’s Giant Tech Site
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Mobile Giving: A List Of Shortcodes To Donate To Japan
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Want use your phone to donate to the relief effort, in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan? Below is a list of shortcodes y… Read more »
Massive Japan Quake/Tsunami Hobbles Mobile Voice, But Data Holds Fast
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After a major disaster like the 8.9 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last night, the first thing virtually everyone shaken by the event… Read more »
Yahoo May Be Close To Unloading Yahoo Japan Stake
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For years, investors have pressured Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) executives to sell the company’s stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, although the comp… Read more »
Ooyala And Yahoo Japan Team Up To Capture Online Video Market
Ooyala has struck a deal with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Japan as both the online video platform and the portal look to add more broadcasters, publi… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.15.2011
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» Groupon may be big in the U.S. and Europe — but it can’t seem to get traction in Japan. The daily deals site has also made a s… Read more »
Dentsu Buys Digital Shop Firstborn
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Japanese ad giant Dentsu, which has been trying to find digital agencies to acquire for over the past year, has finally found a follow-up to… Read more »
Mobile VC Investment Was A Massive $6.1B In 2010. Google, Intel Led The Way
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Boutique investment house Rutberg & Company have released their numbers on VC and M&A activity in the mobile sector, and the figures confirm… Read more »
Jumptap In Japan: Partners With Dentsu And Picks Up Seven-Figure Investment
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Independent ad network Jumptap may not have the ownership of an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) or Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to drive its businesses, but the r… Read more »
The Biggest iPad Subsidy Of All: Softbank Gives It Away – What’s Behind It?
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One more operator is offering a reduced price for the iPad if you take it on a two-year contract: Softbank in Japan is preparing to launch a… Read more »
More Than Just Google TV At Stake For Sony
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Whether the steep discounts of Sony (NYSE: SNE) Internet TV over the weekend was a savvy ploy or a sign of weakness is subject to interpreta… Read more »
Apple’s iAd Is Turning Japanese With Dentsu
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been fielding some criticism over its tight control of its iAd advertising network up to now at home. Now we’ll get t… Read more »
Vodafone Raises Profit Outlook And Sells Off Softbank Stake
Back to basics for Vodafone, as the carrier continues apace with its sell-off of non-controlled assets. Today it has agreed to sell off a $5… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Windows 7 Phones; Docomo LTE; Carphone’s ’99p Mobile’
– Windows Phone 7: Devices built on Microsoft’s latest mobile platform finally go on sale in the U.S. First models out the door, as listed… Read more »
Aurora Feint Raises Cash From Intel In The Midst Of Social Frenzy
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The funding of mobile social companies continues with Aurora Feint, creator of the mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, picking up cash f… Read more »
Mobile Game Maker Ngmoco Sells To Japan’s DeNA To Build Social Gaming Net
Mobile games developer Ngmoco is selling to Japanese mobile social entertainment network operator DeNA, just three months after taking fundi… Read more »
U.S. Trumps Europe In Adopting Mobile, But Not Yet Japan
A report comparing how different geographies have adopted mobile technologies has found that the U.S. has pulled ahead of Europe when it com… Read more »
Japan’s DeNA Makes Second U.S. Investment Over The Past Week
Japanese-based social gaming company DeNA is on roll, having invested in four U.S.-based company and two in the past week alone. Today, it s… Read more »
Naspers Buys ‘Controlling Interest’ In Social Networing Site Multiply.com
Naspers, the South African media company which owns stakes in a number of digital properties, including Facebook-backer Digital Sky Technolo… Read more »
Verizon Turns Into A Cloud: Will You Back Up Your Content To Your Carrier?
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Verizon Wireless has quietly launched a media storage service that costs $2.99 a month for a user to back up 25 gigabytes worth of photos, d… Read more »
DeNA Makes Third Foray Into U.S. With Mobile Acquisition
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Japanese-based social gaming company DeNA has made its next strategic move in the U.S. turf war between themselves and Zynga. DeNA has acqui… Read more »
Another Asian Partner Abandons Yahoo
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NHN, which dominates the search market in South Korea and has been relying on Yahoo to power search ads on its Naver search engine for six y… Read more »
OpenX Partners With Dentsu Unit On Japanese Ad Exchange
Display ad technology firm OpenX has struck an agreement with Dentsu’s digital unit to work on a platform for a display ad exchange in Japan… Read more »
YouTube To Show MLB Games — In Japan
YouTube will be broadcasting all Major League Baseball games on its site in Japan next year, in what the company is calling “the largest par… Read more »
Yahoo Japan Buys Location-Based Mobile Ad Company Cirius
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Japan has purchased Cirius Technologies, the Japanese mobile ad technology company behind the AdLocal mobile ad network,… Read more »
Zynga Breaks Into Japanese Mobile Gaming Market With Acquisition
Zynga, the game-maker best known for Farmville and Mafia Wars, has acquired Tokyo, Japan-based Unoh, which will become the basis for the com… Read more »
Updated: Yahoo Japan Chooses Google For Search
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In a hit to both Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and major shareholder Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Yahoo Japan says it will use Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to power… Read more »
Publicis Buys Back Shares Worth
Maurice Levy’s French advertising group Publicis is laying down Read more »
Japanese Portal Livedoor Sold To NHN For $68 Million
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South Korean internet firm NHN has bought up Japanese internet portal Livedoor for $68 million. Livedoor was once Japan’s hottest internet s… Read more »
Chinese Game Developer Perfect World Buys Japan’s C&C Media For $21 Million
Beijing-based online game developer Perfect World has bought Japanese rival C&C Media from Atlus Co. for $21 million. While the Chinese onli… Read more »
Dentsu Aquires 360i; More Acquisitions In The Works?
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Dentsu’s U.S. unit has acquired Innovation Interactive, the parent of digital ad shop 360i, AdAge reported (Later: announced officially, her… Read more »
Apple’s iPhone Gains Traction In Asia; Has Sold 200,000 In China
Apple’s international presence is gaining traction and revenues are increasing in both Japan and Asia-Pacific because of the iPhone, the com… Read more »
Liberty Group Sells Stake In Japan’s Jupiter Telecom For $4 Billion
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Cable operator Liberty Global is selling off its 37.8 stake in Japanese broadband provider Jupiter Telecommunications to wireless operator K… Read more »
Nokia Cuts 220 R&D Employees In Japan
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is laying off 220 research and development employees in Japan, representing 1 percent of the division globally. Nokia said… Read more »
Japanese Mobile Giant DeNA Takes 20 Percent Stake In iPhone Games Platform OpenFeint
Mobile game technology firm Aurora Feint has received a “multi-million dollar” investment from DeNA Co., one of the largest mobile-social ne… Read more »
Mary Meeker: Mobile Internet Is “Bigger Than Most Think”
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Mobile internet usage is Read more »
Japan Says Qualcomm’s Contract Terms Violate Anti-Trust Rules
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The Japan Fair Trade Commission has ordered Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) to remove certain provisions from its license agreements with Japanese han… Read more »
Yahoo's Bartz On Alibaba Stake: 'Very Good Investment For The Future'
Tension may be growing between Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Alibaba Group — but don’t look for Yahoo to sell its 44 percent stake in the company… Read more »
Having Lost Out On Razorfish, Dentsu's Eager To Acquire
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Now that it has sunk in that Dentsu’s $700 million offer to buy Razorfish from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) was soundly trumped by Publicis Groupe… Read more »
Report: U.S. To Overtake Japan As Largest 3G Market In 2011
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Over the next two years, the U.S. will have more 3G subscribers than Japan, which has been the world leader since rolling out its first comm… Read more »
