Microsoft Readies Ad Campaign For Secretive ‘Pink’ Mobile Phone
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) refuses to talk about its mobile phone project, code-named “Pink,” and yet reportedly it has just selected an ad agen… Read more »
Updated: Digital Media M&A Activity Crawling In H109; Strategics and Mobile Rule
If case you needed confirmation, yes, it was a miserable first half of the year for dealmaking in digital media. There was $5.4 billion wort… Read more »
@Activate Summit: Google Technologist: Mobile Maps/Apps Need More Gov. Data
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The rich data built up over time through mobile mapping technology and platforms will allow an explosion of mobile apps in the coming years… Read more »
WSJ Asks iPhone App Users If They Would Pay
Rupert Murdoch has already said News Corp (NYSE: NWS) intends to charge “handsomely” for its WSJ iPhone and Blackberry apps eventually. How… Read more »
EU Roaming Rates Cheaper Starting Tomorrow
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It will now be cheaper to make cellphone calls, send a text message or surf the web when traveling in Europe. The new rates, which the Europ… Read more »
Carphone Warehouse-Tiscali Takeover Gets EC’s Green Light
It’s a thumbs up from the European Commission: the proposed merger of Tiscali’s UK broadband business and Carphone Warehouse can now take pl… Read more »
Interview: Mozilla Releases A Speedier Browser–And Talks About What’s Coming Next
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The Mozilla Foundation put out Firefox 3.5 this morning — the latest version of its blockbuster browser, which has steadily chipped away at… Read more »
Refinancing Round-up: Yell Group’s Profits Warning; Tomtom’s Rights Issue Price; Johnston Extension
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– Yell Group: The Yellow Pages maker wants to “comprehensively refinance” itself by changing the length and terms of its lending agreements… Read more »
Top-Selling Sally’s Spa App Reflects New Demographic For App Store; Or Not
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Report: Sense Networks Raises $6 Million
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Sense Networks, which describes itself as a company that Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Indie Site, Nimbuzz/O2, Ericsson App Store
– Independent.co.uk: INM is taking on Bluestar Mobile to overhaul its flagship mobile site, in its first client win since being bought by G… Read more »
Ericsson Launches Hosted App Store Service
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Report: Vodafone Considering Bid For T-Mobile UK
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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is mulling over a bid for T-Mobile UK, a move that would catapult them to the lead of the British mobile phone market,… Read more »
Amazon’s Mobile Ambitions May Go Way Beyond Kindle
In a sense, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) can already be called a mobile company. It sells books through the Kindle, lets BlackBerry users send in… Read more »
Mobile Ad Network Toda!Cell Raises $1 Million
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Israeli smartphone ad network Toda!Cell has raised $1 million in its first round of funding led by Israeli VC AfterDox which describes itsel… Read more »
HTC CEO Peter Chou: The Difference Is In the Design
HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker, released its third Android device on Wednesday, along with a new user interface it calls Sense. The sli… Read more »
Orange UK To Slash 370 Jobs
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iPhone Marketing Exec Bob Borchers Joins Opus Capital
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Mobile, it seems, remains one of the few bright spots in venture capital. Bob Borchers has left his post as Apple Read more »
Apple Increases Stake In UK Radio Chip Firm Imagination
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is tripling its stake in UK microchip firm Imagination Technologies, taking its share to 9.5 percent. Its buying 2.2 mill… Read more »
AdMob Cuts Off Ad Network Aggregators On iPhone
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AdMob is slugging it out — almost literally — with aggregators, which help publishers fill more ad inventory by connecting to several ad n… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Irish Piracy, Pirate Bay Trial, Five Soaps, Nokia VOD, Rapidshare, Woolies
– Irish music piracy: They warned they would, and now they have. The four major labels are suing Irish ISPs BT (NYSE: BT) and UPC to force… Read more »
Best Buy Wants 15 Percent Mobile Phone Market Share
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Best Buy plans to open 40 standalone mobile phone stores this fiscal year in a bid to capture 15 percent of the US mobile phone market, its… Read more »
Palm Pre Owners Downloaded One Million Apps
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The Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre may only have around 30 applications available to it so far, but that hasn’t stopped new Pre owners from already d… Read more »
YouTube Sees 400 Percent Jump In Mobile Video Uploads Since New iPhone Launch
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Give them easier access and they will upload and watch. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said today that since the iPhone 3G S has come out, YouTube uplo… Read more »
Mobile Payments Provider Accumulate Raises First Round
Swedish mobile payment and security solutions provider Accumulate has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sweden’s Sixth Swedish Na… Read more »
TV Everywhere: What We Know — And What’s Missing
Sometime this July, 5,000 Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) customers across the U.S. will get the first taste of TV Everywhere — and the first broadba… Read more »
Reports: Cellphones Rank Higher Than Spouses And Are More Addictive Than Alcohol
If you’ve ever texted or answered a phone call while driving (and it’s illegal to do so in your state), then you would probably agree with t… Read more »
IBM’s Augmented Reality Makes A Splash At Wimbledon
The G1 phone’s built-in compass offers some tremendous possibilities. I had already tested the Wikitude app – which lets you identify landma… Read more »
Google Brings AdSense To iPhone, Android Apps
Over the past few months, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been quietly testing its first mobile app ads with developers, including Backgrounds, Sega… Read more »
RealNetworks’ New Media Player Sends Online Videos To Your Phone
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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) released its latest media player today, called RealPlayer SP, which stands for “social” and “portable.” It makes i… Read more »
@ MEM: Vodafone Bets On Web Widgets, Not Apps
As the rush to launch app stores risks a nuclear arms race in app standards, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is almost alone in placing faith instead i… Read more »
FLO TV To Cut Prices To Boost Mobile TV Usage
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Glu Mobile Says Hands-Off; Gains ‘Guitar Hero’ Franchise As Part Of Activision Deal
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Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) is releasing four new titles through its partnership with Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Publishing this year, including su… Read more »
Nokia Struggles To Execute As Smartphone Competition Increases
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It’s no surprise that Nokia’s share of the smartphone market is under attack. For years, the Finnish handset maker didn’t have much in the w… Read more »
Fox Mobile To Bring Premium Video Service To Mobile; Hires Two Ex-Thumbplay Execs
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Fox Mobile Group has appointed two new executives to help run its mobile content division, and in the release, briefly mentions its upcoming… Read more »
London 2012 Video: Alex Balfour’s Olympic Vision
I already reported on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games’ online strategy in text here. Now see London 2012 new media head… Read more »
Carriers Get Into The Game Of Making Apps For iPhone, Android
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In the beginning, carriers were especially wary of application stores, like the iPhone App Store, and rightfully so — they competed with th… Read more »
Adobe On Track For Delivering Flash 10 To Smartphones
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) CEO Shantanu Narayen confirmed during the company’s second-quarter conference call last week that the company is close to… Read more »
Phones Go Social: Sprint Launches Samsung Exclaim And HTC Snap; AT&T Adds Moto Karma
The success of the “Facebook phone,” built by INQ, has not been lost on either carriers or handset-makers, which are starting to introduce c… Read more »
@ MEM: O2′s Tanya Field On Gender, iPhone And Digital Britain
I caught up with Tanya Field, director of Telefonica’s mobile data group, at Mobile Entertainment Market in Westminster on Tuesday – listen… Read more »
