Mobile Lowdown: Opera’s apps; Android In Europe; Sony Ericsson
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today: Opera launches its own app store; Android’s European march; Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s… Read more »
Nielsen: Apple, RIM Are Beating Android OEMs In The U.S. Smartphone Race
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Google’s Android OS is leading the pack for smartphone market share in the U.S., but when it comes to the largest smartphone manufacturer, R… Read more »
What Netflix And Charlie Sheen Have In Common
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What makes the runaway train that is Charlie Sheen so difficult for CBS (NYSE: CBS) to manage is that he delivers too much value to simply s… Read more »
The Underestimated Over-The-Top Device: The PC
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Attention Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV, Boxee, Tivo, XBox, Bravia: It’s no use. Make way for an old-fashioned solution to i… Read more »
Facebook Will Top Yahoo In Display Ad Sales This Year
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A changing in the Silicon Valley guard: eMarketer projects that Facebook will easily pass Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as the biggest outlet for displ… Read more »
Twitter Makes Its Oscar Impact
It figures an Academy Awards that opened with co-host James Franco walking on stage with an iPhone in hand–with which he promptly tweeted–… Read more »
Outlook For Cloud-Based Video Storage Is, Well, Cloudy
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If Hollywood had its druthers, we’d all be buying–not renting–movies and TV shows by the bushel. But some new research from In-Stat offers… Read more »
Survey: Only 20 Percent Of Adults Use The Mobile Web Daily
Apple’s new subscription rates have gotten some publishers thinking they might start to put more effort instead into mobile web services. Bu… Read more »
Mobile Music: A $5.5 Billion Opportunity For More Than Just Apple
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New forecasts out today for the mobile music market from Juniper Research: it will bring in revenues of $5.5 billion by 2015, compared to $3… Read more »
Do The Math: Here’s The Percentage Cut Apple And Google Should Be Taking
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James McQuivey is an analyst at Forrester Research, where he serves Consumer Product Strategy professionals. James blogs here.
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Magna Forms Alliance With Simulmedia; Wieser Named CMO Of New JV
Magna Global, the digital and media buying investment hub of Mediabrands and IPG agencies, is partnering with targeted TV startup Simulmedia… 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 »
The Morning Lowdown 02.14.2011
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» Social gamer Zynga is looking to raise $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up betwe… Read more »
Kantar Video Study Underscores Super Bowl’s Two-Point Conversion
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A study released Friday by WPP research arm Kantar Video underscores just how impactful the internet can be for Super Bowl ads. It only goes… Read more »
Gartner: Apple, RIM Displace Sony Ericsson, Motorola In Mobile Rankings
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All this news about Nokia’s next big move and losing mindshare / market share, and it’s easy to forget that the Finns (yes, they are still b… Read more »
iTunes Faces New Threat In Film Rentals
While new data out today from IHS Screen Digest shows Apple’s iTunes is as dominant as ever in the electronic-sell-through business, the sou… Read more »
Omnicom’s DAS Builds Up Online Analytics With Two Acquisitions
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Omnicom Group’s Diversified Agency Services unit has acquired online consumer researcher Communispace, a further sign that analytics continu… Read more »
Facebook Video Count Has Been Plummeting For Five Months
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Facebook is practically synonymous with explosive growth–with one notable exception. An examination of comScore’s U.S. online-video ranking… Read more »
Nokia Needs To Re-Tool Its R&D, Not Ramp It Up
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Some rather damning numbers crunched today by Horace Dediu, the independent analyst at Asymco. According to his calculations, Nokia (NYSE: N… Read more »
Yahoo Forms AdLabs To Better Pitch Hyperlocal Ad Sales
A recent forecast of small business media buying trends cited by eMarketer showed that local businesses want to advertise online — especial… Read more »
75 Exabytes Of Mobile Data Will Be Used By 2015, But We Can Be Fickle Users
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Some interesting numbers out from Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) that, if true, have big implications for the mobile world and how services might develo… Read more »
Piracy Nearly A Quarter Of Global Internet Traffic, Says Study
Internet piracy is as big as…everyone already probably assumed it was. But just in the case the Motion Picture Association of America hasn… Read more »
Android Gets Even Bigger And Tops The Charts For Smartphone OS
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may still be shipping more devices than any other mobile phone maker, but worldwide, it’s now losing in the smartphone pla… Read more »
Handset Rankings: Nokia Leads, And Android’s Not A Panacea For Competitors
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No less than three analysts houses have posted their global handset rankings for the last quarter, and, despite losing overall market share… Read more »
PwC: Media M&A’s Still Hot In ’11; But Long-Term Debt Worries Persist
Not that anyone needed more proof that 2010 was a busy year for media deals, PwC’s look at M&A activity in the space finds that the amount o… Read more »
Pontiflex: About Half Of Mobile App Clicks Are Accidental
About 47 percent of app users say they are more apt to click a mobile ad by mistake than they do on purpose, according a survey by lead gen… Read more »
Apps Will Make $15 Billion, Garner 17 Billion Downloads In 2011
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People love to talk about the rise of the mobile web, but today, apps are where it’s at when it comes to mobile content, and they are very m… Read more »
JEGI: Media Execs Optimistic About Economy, Acquisition Activity
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Given the spate of acquisitions and venture capital activity the last few months, it’s natural that media executives are still feeling fairl… Read more »
Google Under Schmidt: By The Numbers
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Google’s announcement today that Eric Schmidt will step down as CEO ends what has to be one of the most successful tenures for a chief execu… Read more »
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Netflix Subscriber Scorned
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Queue-tastrophe? Queue-pocalypse? Whatever you want to call the fallout from Netflix’s decision to drop the DVD queue from streaming devices… Read more »
Deloitte Boldly Projects 2011 TV Landscape Will Look Like…2001
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If the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show left the impression that TV as we know it is on the cusp of radical reinvention, the fol… Read more »
IDC: 17 Million Tablets Shipped Globally In 2010 — Most Were iPads
The number of media tablets that shipped in Q3 grew by 45.1 percent, says analyst IDC, which is to say the introduction of Apple’s iPad was… Read more »
Video Is 40% Of All Mobile Traffic, But Most Of Us Don’t Watch It
Mobile data traffic is on the rise, and — with sites like YouTube increasing their mobile traffic three-fold in the last year — the popula… Read more »
iPad: Just Another ‘Free Internet Appliance’?
When the iPad was launched last year, much was made of how it would revolutionize video and other media consumption. But new research may no… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-18-11
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» Troubled video renter Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is asking lenders for more cash. [WSJ]
» Facebook took in $1.86 billi… Read more »
More Than 60 Apps On Every iOS Device, And Numbers Are Still Growing
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As Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fast approaches its 10-billionth app download, some fascinating numbers from the analyst house Asymco on what that 10-… Read more »
Apps: Apple Reaches For 10B Downloads, Microsoft Plays The Generation Game
Apple’s quickly racing to break the 10-billion download mark in its app store. In fact, by the time you read this, it may have already made… 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 »
Social Gaming Ads To Soar — But Virtual Goods Still Lead Revenue
With the still rising popularity of social media games like Zynga’s Farmville and Mafia Wars, advertising is naturally beginning to follow.… Read more »
PIB: Despite Ad Recovery, Mag Ad Pages Ended 2010 Slightly Down
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Although advertising spending came back in 2010, the best consumer magazines were able to do was to arrest the erosion of ad pages, accordin… Read more »
