Buoyed by better results than expected from its first European foray, Netflix will head north this winter – a move which means it now competes with Lovefilm in a majority of the Amazon brand’s markets. Read more »
Soundrop became the first app on Spotify’s app platform to secure major funding this week, and its investor is none other than Northzone – a company that also led the music service’s early funding round. But Soundrop has big ambitions that reach well beyond Spotify. Read more at GigaOM »
Spotify’s closest Scandinavian competitor says it must seek new investment to join its digital music peers in international expansion this year. Read more »
With all eyes on Norway as mass killer Anders Breivik goes on trial for slaying 77 people last summer, local newspaper Dagbladet has taken a lean, innovative approach to providing real-time video coverage for its readers on the web. Read more »
Payments are big up north. A Square competitor and an online payments facilitator are named the Nordic region’s most promising digital outfits. Read more »
Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gearing up for a splash at CES to kick off the U.S. launch of its new line of Microsoft-powered smartphones, it… Read more »
Pan-European newspaper publisher Mecom is selling its Norwegian business Edda Media to rival A-Pressen for €221.8 ($299.67/£190.79) milli… Read more »
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more »
After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world — and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto s… Read more »
Many consumers were never completely sure of the correct way to pronounce it, and it has had mixed success as a household name synonymous wi… Read more »
If you look at web browser usage, Opera is barely even worth mentioning. But look at mobile browsers and it’s arguably one of the fastest an… Read more »
Despite the big stories about the iPad 2 selling out in the U.S., and the question marks over how events in Japan might affect consumer elec… Read more »
Update: Clear Channel announced that it is the media company buying the cloud-based music subscription service Thumbplay Music — a deal tha… Read more »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music — shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service — but it is not giving up on… Read more »
Aspiro, the hosted and white-label mobile TV and music provider, today announced that it has sold its remaining mobile entertainment busines… Read more »
One school of thought, in the challenged news business, holds that publishers should augment their conventional income from ads and circulat… Read more »
Norway-based Opera Software (OSL: OPERA) has come up with a plan to monetize the mobile web more easily and make browsers more attractive co… Read more »
Here is the current dilemma, for many a consumer online news publisher, summed up in a graph pair…
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– TalkTalk: The UK ISP has announced it is upgrading its broadband customers to the fastest sync speeds that their lines will support, up t… Read more »
– France IPTV: Orange France is upping its game in competition with pay-TV providers CanalSat and TV Numeric. It is in discussions to carry… Read more »
– Free Films Direct: A new movie service for Sweden, the land of Spotify and Pirate Bay. Free Films Direct comes from Sweden’s Brixgate Com… Read more »
British newspapers can’t catch a break when it comes to growing online earnings – just look at Trinity Mirror’s negative digital growth in 2… Read more »
As its hype curve rises and grows around the world, music service Spotify is locking out eager, enterprising users from outside the six coun… Read more »
Former MEN Media head of online editorial Sarah Hartley, who left last week after eight years, is joining GMG stablemate Guardian News & Med… Read more »
