Orange Links Up With Dailymotion For Ads, Seeks The Next Don Draper
When the multinational operator France Telecom/Orange announced that it was taking an $80-million, 49-percent stake in the online video site… Read more »
Smartphones Head To ‘Tipping Point’
Android is now the top smartphone OS in eight key countries having edged past Nokia’s Symbian in Spain, according to the latest quarterly sa… Read more »
In Contrast To The U.S. iPhone Tops Survey For Most-Wanted Device In Europe
Looks like price sometimes is not always the main consideration when people are buying products — or at least when people are thinking of b… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-20-11: Huawei Tablet; Photovine; Adobe Flash; Spain LTE
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Read more »
Nokia: First WP7 Devices Will Debut In Six European Markets
One of the biggest reasons that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has dumped Symbian in favor of Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is to better ta… Read more »
Telefonica’s O2 Litmus Fails The Litmus Test; App Effort Closes Down
Attention mobile operators: here’s a cautionary tale for you about what happens when you try to wedge yourself into the app ecosystem create… Read more »
¡Hola, Nokia! Symbian Enjoys Huge Smartphone Lead In Spain, Says Nielsen
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If you can’t quite understand why it is that Symbian is still continuing to occupy a strong position in the overall worldwide smartphone mar… Read more »
Spanish Sports-Streaming Site Fights U.S. Government Web Seizures
The branch of the U.S. government that typically deals with border control-Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE)-began seizing U.S. web… Read more »
Infographic: Smartphones And Apps In Europe
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In the top five markets in Europe today, 46 million people actively use smartphones to access apps. Analytics company Flurry, which compiled… Read more »
Flirtomatic Picks Up Former SayNow Exec Neil Goldberg As New CEO
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Such is the way with relationships: not all of them last, and dating startups are no exception. Handmade Mobile Entertainment, makers of Fli… Read more »
B&N Says Foreign-Language E-Books Selling ‘Outrageously’ Well in U.S.
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Selling foreign-language print books in the United States has always been tough due to high prices, hurdles at customs and the difficulties… Read more »
What Next? Sony Admits Even Bigger Security Breach: 25 Million Accounts
Those clouds over Sony (NYSE: SNE) are getting darker. The company has admitted yet another compromise of people’s private information, with… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-01-11: NFC Europe; Apple Tweaks; BMW VC Fund
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Two more NFC initiatives in Europe — one in the UK and one in Spain; two reports on so… Read more »
The iPad Abroad: Apple Holds Firm On March 25 Ship Date
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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 »
Vodafone: Tiered Data, Smartphones Drive Sales
A day after announcing a new chairman, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) reported a growth in revenue — and especially data revenue — after seeing reco… Read more »
Facebook Deals Comes To Europe; Users Now Get Offers When They Check In
Facebook today took one more step in its ownership of the mobile space: today it expanded its Facebook Deals service into five markets in Eu… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Apple’s 10 Billion; Sony Qriocity; WP7 Data/Yahoo
– Apple: The App Store hit its ten-billionth download on January 22. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had turned the occasion into a contest, with an $10… Read more »
Telefonica, Orange, Verizon Hope To Win The Next Round In Mobile Content
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The smartphone revolution, as led by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), has given us a whole new way to consume mobile content, in the form of apps. The pr… Read more »
Orange CEO On Competing With Google, The iPad And More
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Today, Orange’s CEO Stephane Richard sat down for a Q&A at the LeWeb conference in Paris, where he talked about the iPad, smartphone sales,… Read more »
Apple Tests Operators’ Patience With ‘Soft Sim’ Plans
Mobile operators have conceded a lot to Apple in the last few years – most of it, not by choice – in the name of carrying its attractive, da… Read more »
Updated: Apple’s iAd in Europe Starts December With Unilever, InBev
Six months after launch, some more international expansion for Apple’s iAd advertising platform. This week, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is reportedly… Read more »
Telefonica: Profit Up, Spain Disappoints, And Mobile Data Still Tiny
Developing markets continue to be a driving force at Telefonica (NYSE: TEF). The Spanish incumbent, which gets more than 40 percent of its r… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits 5.21.10
» Philadelphia Newspapers’ Brian Tierney is relinquishing his office and CEO role today in advance of surrendering the company to… Read more »
Spain Finds Film Piracy A Hard Habit To Break
By Giles Tremlett: It has been the setting for many a spaghetti western, but now Hollywood has warned that Spain could be facing high noon o… Read more »
Yahoo Expands Its Search Distribution Partnership With Telefonica To Spain
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may have lost its search deal with T-Mobile in the U.S. earlier this month — but it is still picking up search partners… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Spanish Piracy Law; Omnifone/Gracenote; TalkTalk/Tiscali
–Spain’s three strikes: The Cabinet has approved an anti-piracy law that offers a graduated response to sites that engage in illegal file s… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Absolute/iPod, EastEnders, Digital Plus
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– Absolute Radio: In a bid for affiliate income, the broadcaster is taking advan… Read more »
Pioneering Spanish News Site Soitu.es Bites The Dust
It’s not just the UK or the U.S. where news sites and blogs start-ups struggle to steal market share from mainstream print-subsidized newspa… Read more »
Italian Mobile Entertainment Company Neomobile Raises Undisclosed Round
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Rome-based Neomobile has raised an undisclosed round of capital from new investor UK-based BlueGem and existing investor MPS Venture of Ital… Read more »
Spotify Restricts Access In Some European Countries
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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 »
PayPal Brings Billing To BlackBerry's App World In 10 New Countries; Four Languages
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We knew that Research In Motion was rolling out its BlackBerry App World in new countries, but now PayPal — which is the exclusive billing… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Motive TV Signs Global DTT Deal; TF1-Orange; Babelgum-Coldplay App; Ten Alps
– Motive TV signs DTT deal AIM-listed Motive Television has signed a deal with Barcelona-based broadcast-technology firm Adecq Digital SL t… Read more »
Earnings: Vodafone Declares iPhone Interest; Profits Rise On Asia Growth
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) isn’t alone in wanting to prise away O2′s exclusive rights to distribute the iPhone in the UK — but it is shouting the… Read more »
Report: MySpace Picks Spain GM Moser To Head UK
MySpace is tapping its Spain and Portgual GM Christopher Moser as its new UK MD, replacing Anthony Lukom, MediaWeek says. The company says i… Read more »
MySpace Outsources Sites In Europe, LatAm To Sibling Fox International
So how will MySpace manage all of its international operations after slicing non-U.S. staff by some 65 percent? Short answer: it won’t. The… Read more »
Funding Round-Up: Glubble Gets $1 Million; Ticketea Launches; North-West £360,000 Payout
– Glubble: Family-focused social network Glubble has raised $1 million (£607,000) in second round from (unidentified) European investors t… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Trinity Mirror Cuts; Newsquest Printers; VNU Media Write-Down; 20 Minutos
– Trinity Mirror: The publisher has announced that five newspaper offices and 11 jobs at its weekly Scottish newspaper division are under t… Read more »
Research: Piracy Is Huge And Getting Worse
An intellectual property thinktank reckons between 44 and 79 percent of global internet traffic is file-sharing, with the problem worse in e… Read more »
Another Shopping Club, Privalia, Gets VC Funding
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that one of the sectors that’s still attracting healthy VC investment is one that helps people save money on con… Read more »
Piracy Round-Up: Spanish P2P Case, French Legal Challenge, Pirate Bay Appeal
After their attempts to shut down The Pirate Bay in Sweden, Europe’s entertainment companies have a new target: Pablo Soto, a 30-year-old ma… Read more »
