Magine aims to be a cloud pay TV service without the box
Tomorrow’s pay-TV box could be a handheld device or an in-TV app, if Magine, a new Swedish service using existing consumer gadgets and cloud distribution, gets its way. Read more »
Netflix chasing down Amazon’s Lovefilm to Scandinavia
Buoyed by better results than expected from its first European foray, Netflix will head north this winter – a move which means it now competes with Lovefilm in a majority of the Amazon brand’s markets. Read more »
Meet the Q&A site where people pay $150 for answers
Forget Quora: Swedish startup Mancx is trying to put a twist on question and answer sites by getting people to pay real money for the information they receive — and it’s just raised another $1.65m to expand. Read more »
Scandinavia’s hottest digital startups: payments firms
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Payments are big up north. A Square competitor and an online payments facilitator are named the Nordic region’s most promising digital outfits. Read more »
Spotify dips a toe in web waters, but isn’t yet swimming
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Spotify has moved a step toward embracing the web by introducing a new embeddable widget – but the launch highlights perhaps one of the biggest anomalies of the music service. Read more »
Spotify Launching Integrated Apps Within Its Platform
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration t… Read more »
Big In Sweden: Spotify-Crazy Youngsters Are Bellwether For Music Biz
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Spotify’s early traction in its native Sweden gives the world a glimpse at what a market looks like when strong music subscription services… Read more »
Update: BPI Asks BT To Block BitTorrent Site Pirate Bay, Or It's Court Time
A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK’s mai… Read more »
Two Tracks For Digital Music: Aspiro White Label Deal; 7digital Tablet App
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more »
What Will It Take For International E-Book Markets To Take Off?
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Big U.S. publishers are now reporting that e-books now make up between 15 and 20 percent of their sales-a dramatic and quick rise since 2010… Read more »
UK Launches LTE Trial, But Is It Falling Behind In The 4G Race?
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Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savv… Read more »
Sony Gives A Big “No Comment” On Sony Ericsson Buyout Reports
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has declined to comment on reports that it is considering a bid to buy out Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) from its Sony Ericsson han… Read more »
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 »
Sony Kisses Qriocity Branding Goodbye, Forms Sony Entertainment Network
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Many consumers were never completely sure of the correct way to pronounce it, and it has had mixed success as a household name synonymous wi… Read more »
Tablet Makers Have A Better Shot Against iPad In Europe, Says Forrester
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has all but cornered the market for tablets in the U.S., say researchers at Forrester, who predict that its iPad will tak… Read more »
Spotify Launch Sponsors Pay $1 Million Each
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We spoke with an executive very close to Spotify and several advertising executives to understand the company’s strategy behind its hybrid a… Read more »
A First Look At The Nokia N9: This Is Not A Dead End
photo: Ingrid Lunden
Before it has even hit the market, the N9 from Nokia (NYSE: NOK), its first Meego-based device, has caused almost as much excitement as it h… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-23-11: Foursquare; T-Mo iPhone; Hulu Android
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Foursquare: The check-in app has signed a deal with American Express to offer special… 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 »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-30-11: Google In-App Payment Users; Tablets; Three
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google’s Android in-app payments service gets some early users — and maybe some confus… Read more »
The iPad Abroad: Apple Holds Firm On March 25 Ship Date
photo: Tom Krazit
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 »
Bonnier Spins Out Its Mag+ Tablet Concept
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Swedish publisher Bonnier, which introduced its Mag+ concept for iPad magazines last year, has now spun the idea out in to separate business… Read more »
More Consolidation In Mobile Apps Services: Teleca Buys SurfKitchen
Looks like another small acquisition to continue the consolidation among mobile internet solutions providers: the Swedish mobile services pr… Read more »
Voddler Picks Up Another $8 Million In Funding For VOD, Led By Nokia
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music — shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service — but it is not giving up on… Read more »
WikiLeaks App Comes And Goes On iPhone, But Plenty More Out There
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That was quick: the WikiLeaks app on Apple’s App Store, published only on December 17, was early today removed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The de… Read more »
WikiLeaks’ Assange Granted Bail, Will Be Released By Tomorrow
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Britain’s high court today granted bail to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of… Read more »
WikiLeaks’ Assange Granted Bail
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A British court today granted bail with strict conditions to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, who faces allegations of… Read more »
News Publisher Schibsted Aims To Profit By Offering Loans To Readers
One school of thought, in the challenged news business, holds that publishers should augment their conventional income from ads and circulat… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: TalkTalk broadband; BBCWW/2entertain; Scandinavian IPTV
– TalkTalk: The UK ISP has announced it is upgrading its broadband customers to the fastest sync speeds that their lines will support, up t… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Euro Winter Olympics Coverage; Sky’s ITV Stake; Swedish VOD
– Euro Winter Olympics Coverage: The European Broadcasting Union is streaming Winter Olympics coverage free through its “Vancouver Live” po… Read more »
VOD Site Voddler Gets Another $3.5 Million In Funding
Swedish film streaming site Voddler, still in beta, has picked up a further 26 million Swedish kronor (£2.25 million, $3.5 million) in fund… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: BT Fibre, Embarrassing Bodies, Pirate Anonymity, Radio Apps, BSkyB/ITV
– BT (NYSE: BT) fibre: BT has launched a fibre-to-the-cabinet consumer broadband service, Infinity, offering up to 40Mbps starting at £19.… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Ofcom/BSkyB; SweTorrents; RuNet Rises; British Museum/BBC; Novello/Games
– Ofcom/BSkyB: Ofcom says a final decision on forcing Sky to cut wholesale channel prices will come in March. The board is due to meet this… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Bambuser For Journos, Virgin’s MusicFish, French Broadband
– Bambuser deal: The Swedish mobile vidcasting rival to Qik and Flixwagon has signed its first commercial partner since starting in ’07 -… Read more »
Digital Pushes Music Sales Back To Growth In The Land Of Piracy
It may have spawned The Pirate Bay, have elected the Pirate Party to the European Parliament and have some of the world’s biggest pro-pirate… Read more »
Ericsson Says ‘Merry Christmas’ With 950 Jobs Cuts
A bad day for staff at Swedish mobile handset maker and networks company Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), which is making 950 staff redundant in Swede… Read more »
Swedish Rightsholders Continue Anti-Piracy IPRED Offensive
It’s traditionally been the home of illegal file-sharing in Europe, but since the introduction of strong anti-piracy laws this year Sweden h… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Free Films Direct, MuZu.tv/O2, BBC MMS, 7digital
– Free Films Direct: A new movie service for Sweden, the land of Spotify and Pirate Bay. Free Films Direct comes from Sweden’s Brixgate Com… Read more »
Swedish Music Biz Says 80-Percent Rise In Digital Sales Shows Piracy Is Waning
Has the tide turned against bedroom P2P file-sharers in the music industry’s epic fight against piracy? The IFPI’s branch in Sweden — the h… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Is Moving Its U.S. Headquarters To Atlanta; Shedding Other Offices
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*Sony Ericsson* is relocating its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta as part of a global consolidation that will cut… Read more »
