AOL Has A Profitable Mobile Business, But It's Not Because Of Apps Or Ads
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has banked a lot of its fortunes on selling advertising around a group of high-traffic web properties. But just as it still… Read more »
Mobile Ad Firm 4INFO Names Tim Jenkins CEO. Zaw Thet Now 'Chief Evangelist'
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So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company… Read more »
Bruised Apple To Sell Unlocked iPhone 4S Just As Sprint Tightens Grip
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Coincidence or design? Today came not one but two developments on the state of unlocked iPhone 4S devices: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will start to… Read more »
Kindle Fire Will Have Hulu Plus App, Too
When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced the new Nook Tablet on Monday, it appeared to have an app-vantage over the Kindle Fire: Hulu Plus.… 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 »
Google Takes Two: Buys Apture To Enhance Chrome, Katango To Beef Up Google+
Not one but two tech acquisitions were announced by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) today: Apture and Katango, both of which point to Google’s ambition… Read more »
The Latest Google Android App Store Comes From Yahoo
In recent months, we have written how Android is like the Wild West in China, with all manner of operators launching their own, non-Google (… 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 »
Are iPhone 4S Orders Being Cut Or Not? Facebook Stats Could Shed Some Light
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When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched the iPhone 4S in October, some thought the device would be a disappointment to the market because it was no… Read more »
By Selling Stake In LMK, Hearst Sharpens Its Focus As A Tech Incubator
Hearst’s sale of a majority stake in its niche entertainment topics site/app collection LMK to digital holding company Black Ocean may not h… Read more »
Industry Moves: Microsoft's Mobile Leaver, iProspect, Adaptly
Some of the latest entrances and exit in hiring in the UK digital media business… Read more »
Marketing Misfires Trigger More 'Text Spam' Lawsuits
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Text messages are an irresistible marketing opportunity for brands to connect with their customers. But some text campaigns are tripping ove… Read more »
Razorfish: Ad Exchanges Are Becoming The Industry Standard
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Like most major ad agencies, Publicis Groupe digital shop Razorfish became very bullish on ad exchanges this past year, increasing the amoun… Read more »
Shopping App Shopkick Adds 1,000 Old Navy Stores To Its Network
A big bump in business for bricks-and-mortar mobile shopping app Shopkick: the company has signed a significant deal with Old Navy clothing… Read more »
China's Internet Titans Fend Off Mobile Challenge With Microblog Growth
Two of China’s largest internet companies have reported contrasting Q3 financial fortunes – but each’s mobile fortunes have been hit by new… Read more »
Updated: Flash In The Pan: Adobe Confirms End Of Mobile Flash And 750 Jobs
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Update: Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) how now posted an item on its own blog confirming that it will stop developing Flash for mobile devices, and will… 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 »
What Twitter's Latest Move Means For Other Social TV Players
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As social TV emerges as something beyond an experiment for advertisers and TV networks, Twitter is eager to take a bigger role in connecting… Read more »
Mobile Startup Funding: Strangeloop $10 Million; Urban Airship $15 Million
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What will be the most-used medium for consuming mobile content in the future: the web or apps? It’s a question that gets hotly debated, and… Read more »
Branson's Next Mobile Act: An Investment In Mobile Payments Startup Square
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago,… Read more »
Microsoft: Talking To Huawei For Android Patent License; Inks Openwave Deal
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be adding one more OEM to its list of Android licensees, and this one is a biggie: Huawei, the ambitious Chines… Read more »
WebOS Sale Rumors Return; Oracle Named As Potential Buyer From HP
Another turn in the plot for HP (NYSE: HPQ) and its mobile assets: today a report emerged indicating that HP is looking sell off its mobile… Read more »
Google Expands DoubleClick Inventory From Mobile Web To Apps
Now that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been making strong inroads into consolidating its hold on the PC-based display marketplace through its Doub… Read more »
China Has 70 Android App Stores, But That Could Soon Whittle Down To 10
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Android is on its way to becoming the most ubiquitous smartphone OS in the world, but could the fragmentation in the platform — the many ve… Read more »
The Android Pile-Up On Apple In Europe: Motorola Gets Injunction In Germany
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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 »
Netflix And MGM Ink Exclusive Streaming Deal For UK And Ireland
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is laying some content groundwork for its launch in the UK and Ireland, expected in early 2012: today it announced a de… Read more »
Not The Best Buy After All: Carphone Warehouse JV To Shut UK Shops
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Best Buy is one of the biggest and most influential retailers of mobile phones and other gadgets in the U.S. — impacting pricing for other… Read more »
Two Tracks For Digital Music: Aspiro White Label Deal; 7digital Tablet App
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more »
@ pcE11: Angry Birds 'The Movie' Or 'The App'? It's Just 'The Experience'
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Angry Birds is one of the the most popular game apps, but as various offshoots develop — merchandise, TV shows, more animated movies — the… Read more »
@ pcE11: Measuring The Twitter Effect On TV Viewing And Programming Choices
It’s a wild world these days at the intersection of traditional television business models and all the new ways that people are consuming co… Read more »
Nielsen: Android Grew Its Smartphone Marketshare; iPhone Stayed Flat
Some stats out today from Nielsen for Q3 show that Android is continuing on its growth trajectory in the U.S. but in the last quarter Apple’… Read more »
Woes Piling Up For RIM? BlackBerry Makers’ Shares Dip Below Book Value
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More turmoil this week from BlackBerry maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) that could not be mitigated by the news of the launch of a new distribution de… Read more »
Apple Promises Software Fix Coming Soon For iOS 5 Battery Issues
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has owned up to the battery life issues that have been plaguing early adopters of iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S, blaming the is… Read more »
Updated: Yahoo Highlights Immersive Ads In HTML5 With Livestand Launch
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) launched its long-awaited Livestand news-reader app Tuesday during an event at company headquarters, promising that the e… 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 »
More Money For Masabi: $4 Million For Mobile Ticketing, Expansion Into U.S.
Masabi, the London-based mobile ticketing startup that has nearly cornered the market for train services in the UK, has raised more funding… Read more »
Mobile Apps Seeing ‘Astronomical’ Growth In China
These are the 10 countries where mobile apps have seen the fastest consumer adoption this year, new Flurry analytics show… Read more »
The NFC Dance: One Step Closer With PayPal; One Step Further With Square
We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers… Read more »
HTC Led Q3 U.S. Smartphone Sales, Nokia To Wait Until 2012 To Challenge It
Figures out from Canalys tracking smartphone shipments worldwide in Q3 have once again demonstrated that the flood of Android handsets on th… Read more »
Why Tech Companies Want Engineers To Ignore Patents When Designing Products
photo: Tom Krazit
It’s been hard to go anywhere in Silicon Valley during 2011 and not have patents come up over the course of a friendly discussion about the… Read more »
