Microsoft Shifts Strategies To Expand Xbox Live TV, Go Global
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After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
New Service Gives Even The Most Basic Mobile Users Access To Facebook
Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s site… Read more »
Yet More Reports Of DST, Alibaba And Silver Lake Swarming Over Yahoo
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Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technolo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-04-11
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» Price-Fixing Case Against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Major Book Publishers Mushrooms (paidContent)
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UK’s Waterstones To Wade Into The E-Reader Market With Kindle Killer?
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Waterstones — the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut — is taking a tip from its U.S. co… Read more »
Mail.ru Seeing Explosive Profit Growth
Portal operator Mail.ru’s half-year profit has more than doubled to $85.5 million, underlining it as one of the most successful in the high-… Read more »
Yandex Buying Twitter ‘Newspaper’ Maker The Tweeted Times
Russia’s leading search engine is making a foray in the nascent market segment of socially-organised news delivery, by buying The Tweeted Ti… Read more »
Russian Portal Rambler Wants To Buy A Tech News Site
Russian portal Rambler and magazine publisher Afisha, which were last year merged by their owner, want to buy the technology news site Compu… Read more »
From Russia With Love, Another Samsung Galaxy Legal Complaint
Samsung has so far fended off attempts by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to keep it from selling Galaxy devices in Europe — but now it has another foe… Read more »
Plastic Logic’s E-Readers May See Light Of Day In Russian Classrooms
Remember Plastic Logic, the Cambridge, England, e-reader maker whose long-awaited first-generation device never came to market and was final… Read more »
Bernstein: Pearson Should Sell Off FT Group And Penguin, Focus On Education
The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell t… Read more »
In Charts: Nasdaq Debutante Yandex Sees Strong Growth
Russian search leader Yandex showed the Nasdaq a strong set of results in its first ever report as a public company – and committed to heavy… Read more »
Who Would Take News International’s Papers Off Murdoch’s Hands?
So, thank you and goodbye, News International? Goodbye Times, Sunday Times and Sun as well as the News of the World? Goodbye, for that matte… Read more »
Russian Game Reviews Site Kanobu Sells To Portal Publishers
In Russia, the Afisha entertainment publisher and Rambler web portal, which were last year merged by their respective owner ProfMedia, are b… Read more »
Nokia’s Asset Offload Continues: Messaging Biz Goes To Synchronica For $25M
The streamlining at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continues apace. Today it was announced that the Finnish company has sold its North American messaging… Read more »
Google’s Russia Problem: Yandex Is Getting More Popular
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Market-leading Yandex has taken share from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on its home turf in Russia this last year, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) observes. Read more »
Russia’s Yandex Takes On Search, Ad Sales For Rambler Portal
The big Russian portal Rambler will outsource its on-site search facility and some ad sales duties to the country’s leading search engine, Y… Read more »
Europe’s Biggest Online Ad Growth Is Coming From Russia
In 2010, European online display advertising bounced back, with 21.3 percent annual growth outpacing search ads’ 15.1 percent increase. Read more »
HP Opens For Tablet App Business, With In-App Purchasing From The Word Go
It’s going to be a big hill to climb, but HP’s put on its walking boots and is getting on with it. Today, the company formally started to ac… Read more »
Hearst Completes Deal For Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
Hearst Corp. is nearing completion of its $921 million (€640 million) acquisition of French media conglomerate Lagardère SCA. It’s finali… Read more »
Is Microsoft Cracking The Whip On Windows Tablet Partners?
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Could Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) have learned a lesson from Google’s mobile experiences when making its own tablet plans? Acer’s CEO seems to th… Read more »
Next Microsoft Tablet OS Set For Demo Next Week?
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Next week Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will become the last of the four companies currently gunning for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the tablet market to… Read more »
Explosion In Tablet Traffic Prompts Google’s AdMob To Launch New Ad Units
Google’s tablet software has yet to really make a dent in the market, but Apple’s iPad is attracting more and more users every day. In some… Read more »
The LTE Ship Finally Docks In The UK, Led By BT And Everything Everywhere
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LTE is far from being a widely available technology, but operators in some countries — such as the U.S., Russia and Sweden — have been qui… Read more »
Cloudy With A Chance Of Apple: How An iTunes Cloud Service Might Look
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to make any public announcements on cloud-based music services, but some more details have emerged that seem to i… Read more »
Updated: paidContent Mobile Slideshow: The Nielsen Device Deck
Tablets are a killer device when it comes to media consumption today, but is that down to the form factor, or because they are only being us… Read more »
@ pcMobile: Best Global Strategy Means Local Partners And Low Prices
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“Globalization is now not just for Foreign Affairs magazine,” said Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) Digital, in this… Read more »
Nielsen: Tablets Are Money Spinners, But Less Than 5% Use Them Today
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Of all the wireless devices that have hit the market in the past several years, tablets present the biggest commercial opportunity for media… Read more »
Amazon Reportedly Has Not One Tablet But Two On The Way
More details are emerging around Amazon’s still-unconfirmed “bid” to enter the tablet fray: it plans to launch not one, but two, devices, an… Read more »
Apple iPad Still The Tablet Leader; Tablet Use Eats Into Other Device Usage
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A few stats and numbers released today underscore the dominance that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad has among those that have purchased media t… Read more »
Nokia CEO Elop: Tablets Are A Hard Pill To Swallow
Just exactly how — and when — will Nokia (NYSE: NOK) enter the tablet market? A few choice words from Stephen Elop, the company’s CEO, ind… Read more »
Yandex Files To Raise As Much As $1 Billion In IPO
Yandex has added its name to the growing list of companies that have filed to go public in recent months: The Russian internet company, whic… Read more »
Can Sony Cut It As A Tablet Brand With Its Two New Android Devices?
Consumer electronics giant Sony (NYSE: SNE) has finally, formally confirmed what people have long been expecting the company to do for month… Read more »
RIM Needs More From Playbook To Reclaim Mobile Mojo
The race to establish a strong third player in the mobile platform world kicked off in earnest this week with the launch of Research in Moti… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 04-21-11: Nielsen Privacy Stats; Amazon/Samsung Tablet; Veer
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: as news of Apple’s tracking data emerges, Nielsen reveals some privacy stats; details t… Read more »
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Hulu Shuns PlayBook, Verizon Next?
They say progress is about making two steps forward and one step back, so maybe we should consider this a double turn for RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) a… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-14-11: Apple Cloud, iOS; Moto/Huawei; Millennial Ads
Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: the latest Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iOS question marks on its cloud strategy and iOS devices; the… Read more »
KupiVIP Takes Record Funding To Be Western Retailers’ Gateway To Russia
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KupiVIP, a Russian online shopping club for luxury brands, is taking what its spokespeople tell us is a record investment for Russian e-comm… Read more »
Gartner’s Tablet Outlook: Rosy Picture For The iPad
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The counterpoint to last week’s data from Gartner that spelled out near and long-term victory for Android: in tablets, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) ru… Read more »
Badoo WLTM Investors For Overseas Fun, Maybe Something More
So what do we learn, from the flattering cover feature in this month’s Wired UK, about Badoo, the London-based pay-for-prominence social dat… Read more »
