The Mobile Lowdown 03-28-11: Apple WWDC; AmEx; Nokia; Google Tablet?
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announces the dates for its developers’ conference; American Express… Read more »
RIM Confirms Android Apps For PlayBook As Shares Fall On Weak Outlook
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) this week finally gave a launch date and pricing for its much-anticipated PlayBook tablet, and the BlackBerry maker looks l… Read more »
Baidu Does A Google And Looks To Make Its Own Mobile OS
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It’s been rumored for a while now that China’s Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) is keen to follow rival search giant Google (NSDQ: GOOG) into the smartpho… Read more »
RIM PlayBook: Starting At $499, Is It A Viable 2nd Or 3rd Tablet Brand?
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After months of anticipation, today RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) finally confirmed prices for its PlayBook tablet and a retail strategy to sell it: the… Read more »
Bestsellers: ‘Glee’ Songs Dominate Charts, But There’s A Twist This Week
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A periodic look at digital content that is racing up the charts.
It’s no secret that Glee has a been huge hit on TV and on the music charts… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: Verizon iPhone; HP TouchPad; NSN/Motorola
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Verizon’s stake of iPhone sales; some details leak out on HP’s TouchPad tablet; Nokia (… Read more »
The Top 30 Russian Internet Business People
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Russia’s internet scene is booming, with online population up 50x in the last 11 years, increasingly active domestic digital actors and grow… Read more »
Who’s Xoom-ing Who? Trademark Lawsuit Hits Motorola On Eve Of Tablet Debut
We’ve seen lots of build-up to the debut of Motorola’s Xoom tablet today, but — wouldn’t you know it — there’s always someone there to spo… Read more »
One Of Russia’s Leading Sports Sites Sells To Ukraine
Russian sports news site Sports.ru’s founders are selling to United Media Holding of Ukraine for between $1.5 million and $2.5 million, RBC… Read more »
From Russia With Two $1 Billion Deals?: Spotify And Yandex
The major Russian digital players continue to shape the online economy farther west.
In the latest examples… Read more »
Video: The HTC Flyer Makes The Retro Stylus Into A Social Tool
HTC put its newest and most talked-about devices of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona — the two “Facebook phones” ChaCha and Salsa, an… Read more »
Video: Orange On NFC, Own-Brand Tablets, And Getting Nokiasoft Leverage
Sometimes being the early mover in technology doesn’t always make you the winner– just look at when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GO… Read more »
@ MWC: Meet One Of The ‘Others’ In The Smartphone Game
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You know those numbers from Gartner that show how the biggest marketshare in mobile today, collectively, goes to a plethora of smaller playe… Read more »
Why Warner Bros. Bypassed iTunes With App Editions
Warner Bros.’ intent to distribute movies as standalone apps packed with all sorts of content extras may seem like just a high-end treat for… Read more »
Groupon’s Worldwide Odyssey Takes It To Russia Via Social Network
Groupon, which is in the middle of an internationalisation phase, is going in to Russia in partnership with one of its main social networks. Read more »
Tablets: Apple Loses 20 Percent Market Share To Android In Just One Quarter
Someone at Samsung must have been a little red-faced today, when the mobile giant got called on how it reported its figures for the Galaxy T… Read more »
A New Peek At Russian Search Engine Yandex’s Finances
Top Russian search site Yandex, which is frequently mentioned as a likely IPO candidate, is laying out a few data points about its business.… Read more »
Plastic Logic Is Raising $700 Million To Open A New Factory In Russia
Plastic Logic is raising $700 million to open a new factory in Russia that will produce “next-generation plastic displays.” The company had… Read more »
CES: Motorola Mobility Comes Out Fighting With Android 3.0 Tablet
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Mobility has come into being with a bang. On top of two exciting-looking new handsets — with AT&T, it debuted Atrix, w… Read more »
Google Weighing Up Its Own Newsstand, But Who’s Reading?
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When it launched last year, the iPad was hailed as the fresh-faced savior of the beleaguered and tired publishing industry. That idea looks… Read more »
HDTV Maker Vizio Wades Into Android Pool With Two New Devices
Add one more consumer electronics name to the long list of those developing Android-based devices: ahead of the CES show starting this week,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.03.11
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» Publishers are very hopeful about the launch of a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) “digital newsstand.” In recent weeks, Google has told pub… Read more »
Mobile Bytes: Verizon’s LTE Device; PlayStation Phone; Moto, Palm Tablets
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– Verizon’s LTE devices: As the carrier laid out plans for its nationwide LTE footprint earlier this month, it said it would give more deta… Read more »
Microsoft With Nokia: Maybe Not As Far-Fetched As It Sounds?
It has been a while since the last time we heard that Nokia and Microsoft might work together on a device — at least a few months. So perha… Read more »
Virgin Media, PushLife Offer iTunes Syncing On Android+RIM, But Not iPhones
Virgin Media has yet to go commercial on an all-you-can-eat music service it announced way back in June 2009, but it is still forging ahead… Read more »
Advertising M&A Activity Enters The Holiday Season
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There’s been a great deal of M&A deals getting done in the online advertising and analytics space this past year and a number of companies a… Read more »
Russian Mobile Social Network OnAir3G Raises $2 Million From Runa Capital
OnAir3G, a Russian mobile startup still in stealth mode, has picked up $2 million in funding from Runa Capital, a new VC in Russia with a fo… Read more »
Updated: Apple’s Mysterious News: Beatles Deal Done
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Another day, and another oblique hint of something new from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). Today, the homepages of the company’s website and iTunes sto… Read more »
Updated: Another Russian IPO? Social Net Badoo Rumoured For Float
The partial floatation of part of Mail.ru Group in London this month appears to have warmed up the market for Russian digital IPOs.
Badoo,… Read more »
LiveJournal Owner Plans New Media Launches In Growing Russian Ad Market
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The owner of LiveJournal says it is planning to double its roster of three content sites, in what it says is a fast-growing Russian web mark… Read more »
Mail.ru Jumps On IPO, Raising A RuNet Warchest
Europe has a new biggest internet company.
Russia’s Mail.ru Group had priced its London IPO, in which it was floating 32.93 million shares… Read more »
BlackBerry Fund Consolidates; Plans Silicon Valley Office And New Fund
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund today is restructuring the way it operates in order to focus exclusively on mobile investments. In addition, it… Read more »
Mail.ru Files For An $876 Million IPO
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As expected, Facebook and Groupon backer Mail.ru, has filed to go public on the London Stock Exchange. There had been talk that the company,… Read more »
Mail.ru Confirms IPO With A Reported $5 Billion Valuation
At long last, this is where Mail.ru Group – the new name for russian digital investor Digital Sky Technologies’ domestic assets – confirms i… Read more »
Updated: More VC For Russian Social Games – I-Jet Seeks $25 Million
Social gaming plus Russia equals hot. The latest activity in that space, after Drimmi and Alawar Entertainment scored funding – I-Jet Media,… Read more »
DST Taking Full Control Of Russian Social Net Odnoklassniki.ru
Russian internet investor Digital Sky Technologies’ online buy-up is continuing ahead of its possible 2011 IPO.
It’s acquiring the 20 perce… Read more »
Forbes Gains Russian Domain Name After Court Fight
A year after being awarded it by a Russian court, Forbes Media’s local online edition there has finally been handed the forbes.ru domain nam… Read more »
Russia’s ProfMedia Combines Afisha And Rambler
Russian media holding firm ProfMedia is merging two of its properties, magazine publishing house Afisha and major Russian internet portal Ra… Read more »
Russian Social Net Odnoklassniki Finds A Profit Gear
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Russia’s leading social network saw net profit grow nearly 10x last year, partly on growth in display ad sales, though it’s still pulling fa… Read more »
Naspers Gives Up Mail.ru For A Slice Of Digital Sky
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It was only last week we were talking about how the DST-Naspers-Tencent nexus is driving online media investment in Russia, China, eastern E… Read more »
