Mid-Year Media Stock Review: Content Trumped Tech in First Half of 2011
Turns out content was king during the first half of 2011, as CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast/NBCU (NSDQ: CMCSA), and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) posted s… Read more »
Blow for Big Media as Court Rejects FCC Bid to Relax Cross-Ownership Rules
Public interest groups and at least one FCC commissioner cheered on Thursday after a federal appeals court threw out part of the agency’s me… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-7-11: Patents; iRumors; Appstore; iPad Hack; Dell; Nexus S
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Patents roundup: As expected, Canadian authorities are starting their due diligence on t… Read more »
European Commission Proposes A Crackdown On Roaming Rates
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Just as the warm weather and vacation season begin to kick off in Europe, the European Commission has beamed a light on one of the most expe… Read more »
Spotify Ad Campaign For Kronenbourg Gets Censored Over Binge Drinking Fears
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Heineken has been forced to drop a cover of the US punk band Dead Kennedys’ song Too Drunk to Fuck that featured in a Kronenbourg 1664 onlin… Read more »
Disharmony In Twitter-Land? FTC Has Questions For Company’s Developers
First Google (NSDQ: GOOG), now Twitter-federal antitrust authorities are showing great interest in the tech sector these days. New reports o… Read more »
Nortel Patent Auction: Yes, Six Winners. And One Big Loser: Google
Nortel’s announcement late Thursday that it has sold a portfolio of 6,000 patents to a consortium consisting of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), EMC, Eri… Read more »
Updated: Publishers, Broadcasters Must Pay £10,350 For Having VOD Regulated
Following a consultation, ATVOD, which was appointed last year to regulate VOD along with Ofcom, has unveiled 2011/12 fees that are an avera… Read more »
French Search Firm Seeks €295 Million Competition Damages From Google
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One of the services whose complaint sparked the European Commission’s competition investigation in to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is leapfrogging th… Read more »
AT&T Gave $500k to House Democrats Pushing The T-Mobile Takeover
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If you had any doubt that money talks in politics, consider today’s development in the lobbying effort for AT&T’s proposed $39 billion buyou… Read more »
Google Defends Itself On Antitrust As States Pile On
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Less than a day after the Federal Trade Commission launched a wide-ranging probe into Google’s core search and advertising business, the big… Read more »
Today’s Nokia Leaks Are Brought To You By…Android And Compal
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has been pushing hard to keep its name in the headlines with regular public appearances from its CEO Stephen Elop, lots of… Read more »
FTC To Investigate Google Over Antitrust Issues
Is this the big one? Is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) the next Microsoft? (NSDQ: MSFT) That’s what folks are sure to be asking, now that the Federal T… Read more »
House Bill Would Require Truth-In-Data-Speeds From Wireless Carriers
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The four U.S. wireless carriers all have four different versions of what they consider 4G networking speeds and technology, and therefore wi… Read more »
Europe Wants U.S.-Style ‘Do Not Track’ Standard
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One month after a deadline by which European states must make most kinds of online data collection – including by cookies – opt-in, only fiv… Read more »
Wireless Carriers Sniping Again As Debate Over AT&T/T-Mobile Crawls On
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The first round of public comments on AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile is coming to a close, and two of the companies most involved i… Read more »
GLAAD President Resigns After Endorsing AT&T/T-Mobile Acquisition
The aggressive sales pitch that AT&T (NYSE: T) has attached to its landmark acquisition of T-Mobile claimed its first victim over the weeken… Read more »
Updated: DoJ Okays Microsoft’s Skype Buy As Key Execs Get Shown The Door
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has received a quick approval from the Department of Justice Federal Trade Commission for its $8.5 billion purchase o… Read more »
DOJ Begins Anti-trust Review Of Google/Admeld Deal
The U.S. Department of Justice has started an antitrust review of Google’s $400 million acquisition of supply-side platform Admeld, sources… Read more »
Updated: UK Mobile Carriers Team Up For M-Payments Push
Big news today in the world of mobile payments: the three largest operators in the UK have announced a joint venture to offer mobile wallet… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-16-11: Sony Tablets, Yahoo App Search And Sprint
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
–Sony: Sony (NYSE: SNE) has yet to give specific details on when and where we will firs… Read more »
FTC On Data Security: There Oughta Be A (Federal) Law
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In the wake of several recent, headline-grabbing hacking attacks on big companies like Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Citibank, the issue of data secu… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-15-11: Acer; Facebook Photo App; Garmin; LightSquared
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Acer cuts its tablet forecast; Facebook apparently lining up a new photo app; some consol… Read more »
Bloomberg Complains That Comcast-NBCU Isn’t Living Up To Merger Promises
Bloomberg doesn’t feel like its financial news channel is in the right kind of “neighborhood,” according to a legal complaint filed with the… Read more »
Google And Admeld: Pressure Is On Display Competitors — And Publishers
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Unless the regulatory process is somehow speeded up in the case of Google’s latest acquisition of Admeld, the estimated $400 million deal th… Read more »
Nokia And Apple Bury The Hatchet, Settle Patent Suit
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There really may be some truth after all to CEO Stephen Elop’s claims that Android is enemy number-one for the struggling Finnish handset ma… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-13-11: AT&T/T-Mo; VZW iPad, Payments; ZTE/Huawei; Lodsys
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: AT&T (NYSE: T) has its right of reply to the critics of its proposed T-Mobile USA acquisi… Read more »
FCC Report Cites Lack Of Local News, But Has No Ideas To Fill The Gap
The FCC has produced a 478-page report on the state of the media in the digital age, and-no surprise-the report has found a big gap in watch… Read more »
Why Europe Is Right To Keep Facebook & Co. In Check
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Facebook must have been tripping if it thought it could enable automatic photo face-tagging without also automatically tripping the interest… Read more »
Groupon Warned For Misleading And Exaggerated UK Promotions
As Groupon grows in popularity, it’s generating custom for an increasing number of small local businesses – and also a growing number of com… Read more »
Who Says No To AT&T/T-Mo? Facebook, Microsoft, Six Others Say Yes
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As AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA continue to work their way through regulatory approval of their proposed $39 billion merger, it looks lik… Read more »
Twitter And Facebook Reminders Banned From French Airwaves
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How do you say Facebook and Twitter in French? You don’t – at least, not if you are on radio or television, where French officials have ba… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-6-11: Apple WWDC Spoofs; Carrier App Billing; Foursquare
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: hours before we start to hear the real news, some spoofed speculations on what we might s… Read more »
Vodafone CEO: Lawmakers Should Ignore Facebook’s Anti-Regulation Call
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At the recent G8 meeting in Paris, Mark Zuckerberg told French president Nicolas Sarkozy, hosting the event, the internet needs light-touch… Read more »
@ D9: Nokia Elop: Microsoft M&A Talk ‘Baseless’, Device Details Coming Soon
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop soundly dismissed recent rumors that the Finnish company is in talks to sell its hardware business to new… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-1-11: WHO Cell Risks; Tapjoy; Moto; eBay; Apple iCloud
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: a scary cell phone warning from the World Health Organization; Tapjoy dishes the dirt on… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-26-11: Google Sprint NFC; Chinese Android; O2; New Fund
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details spill about Google’s not-so-secret mobile wallet launch today; worrying stat… Read more »
New EU Rules For Online Tracking Being Delayed–Or Ignored
Today’s deadline day. Member states of the European Union are all supposed to have plans in place to change their laws so that most kinds of… Read more »
UK PM To Resist French Internet Regulation Plans
David Cameron is to resist calls for international regulation of the web by Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit. The French president will tabl… Read more »
Why Google Hasn’t Implemented A ‘Do Not Track’ Feature
photo: Corbis / Stanley Eales
Three of the four main browser companies–Mozilla, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and Apple–either have or will soon have in their browsers a Do N… Read more »
