Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com
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Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more »
El Huffington Post: Arianna Goes To Spain With El Pais Partnership
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The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner… Read more »
Updated: Apple TV Streaming Quietly Goes International
Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream sho… Read more »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Be Going International Sooner Rather Than Later
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire today is only on sale in the U.S., but according to one report that Fire could be spreading to the UK as soon as Januar… Read more »
HTC Highlights How Fickle The Mobile Market Can Be: That Spells Opportunity
Looking at HTC over the last week or two, it’s almost hard to believe that it is the top-ranking smartphone maker that the analysts claim it… Read more »
7digital Music Adds Microsoft To Its App List, Still Awaits Apple Approval
Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sa… Read more »
Financial Times Launches Dedicated Android App
With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android a… Read more »
More Carrier IQ: Nokia, Google, Verizon Say No Dice, Sprint, AT&T Say Yes
Several days into the Carrier IQ story — which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool — an… Read more »
Amazon Widens Its Kindle Footprint With €99 Device On Sale In Spain, Italy
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It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today… Read more »
Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab The All-Clear But Is It Too Late?
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A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimous… Read more »
Crunch Time For Apple's Rivals: iPhone Sales In UK Grew Again In October
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) acolytes will probably be saying “told you so” when they hear of this: sales of the iPhone, which had been in decline in… Read more »
IPCom Threatens Injunction On HTC In Germany, But HTC Brushes It Off
The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement… Read more »
Power To The People: ISPs, Media, Users Face Off In EU Legal Triple-Whammy
Consumers in Europe may be feeling the smarting bite of the economic winter settling in around us, but when it comes to internet and mobile… Read more »
RIM, Apple, Microsoft All Taking A Swipe At NFC Mobile Payment Technology
As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-23-11
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» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens to Cut 17,000 Jobs (WSJ; Press release)
» James Murdoch quits the boards of Sun and Times… Read more »
To Buy Or Not To Buy: Nokia Struggles To Manage Lumia 800 Sales Message
So much hope has been pinned on Nokia’s comeback strategy — in which it has pivoted in the space of less than a year to develop a new line… Read more »
France Wants To Tax ISPs To Fund Music, Add Streaming To Three-Strikes Law
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Away from the Eurozone crisis, France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy has come up with one way to raise more funds in his country for one strugg… Read more »
Three Cries Foul To EU Regulators Over British Mobile Commerce JV
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We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is… Read more »
Apple Adversary Zuora Raises $36 Million For Subscription Services
Big funding round for the digital content subscription and billing specialist Zuora: the company has raised $36 million in a Series D round… Read more »
Miramax Is The Latest To Ink A Deal With Netflix For UK Launch
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video comp… Read more »
Orange Will Bring Three New, Cheap 'Facebook Phones' To Europe And Africa
Remember the “Facebook phones” launched by HTC and INQ earlier this year that gave users a hotlink to the social network and integrated the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more »
Penguin Launches 'Penguin Shorts' E-Singles Series
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Penguin is the latest publisher to test out e-singles with the launch of Penguin Shorts, an ongoing digital series of original fiction and n… Read more »
Bruised Apple To Sell Unlocked iPhone 4S Just As Sprint Tightens Grip
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Coincidence or design? Today came not one but two developments on the state of unlocked iPhone 4S devices: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will start to… Read more »
Roll On, Digital Reorganization. Telefonica Posts First Loss In Nine Years
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Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket — centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit — and w… Read more »
Self-Published British Author Sues For Libel Over Bad Amazon Review
In his self-published book The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know, British entrepreneur Chris McGrath set out t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
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» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more »
Microsoft: Talking To Huawei For Android Patent License; Inks Openwave Deal
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be adding one more OEM to its list of Android licensees, and this one is a biggie: Huawei, the ambitious Chines… Read more »
The Android Pile-Up On Apple In Europe: Motorola Gets Injunction In Germany
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Apple’s latest Android nemesis in Europe? Not Samsung, and not a small-time Spanish tablet maker, but Motorola: the company, currently getti… Read more »
Update: UK High Court OKs Appeal Of Part Of Meltwater Copyright Case
Looks like a small window of opportunity has opened for Meltwater News Service and the Public Relations Consultants Association in its case… Read more »
Netflix And MGM Ink Exclusive Streaming Deal For UK And Ireland
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is laying some content groundwork for its launch in the UK and Ireland, expected in early 2012: today it announced a de… Read more »
Not The Best Buy After All: Carphone Warehouse JV To Shut UK Shops
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Best Buy is one of the biggest and most influential retailers of mobile phones and other gadgets in the U.S. — impacting pricing for other… Read more »
Time Warner Makes $1.4 Billion Endemol Bid
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made a takeover bid for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. 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 »
News Corp.: Net Income Down On $91 Million In Hacking, BSkyB Charges
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The aftershocks of the phone-hacking scandal that erupted at News International in the UK over the summer are still being felt by its parent… Read more »
More Money For Masabi: $4 Million For Mobile Ticketing, Expansion Into U.S.
Masabi, the London-based mobile ticketing startup that has nearly cornered the market for train services in the UK, has raised more funding… Read more »
Anobii Moves Forward With Direct-To-Consumer Book Sales
If a book catches your interest on British social reading site aNobii, you’ll now be able to buy it directly from the publisher. The site, w… Read more »
In Fight Over DVD Window, Warner Bros Cuts Off Blockbuster From New Films
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Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has refused to give DVD rentals chain Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) its latest films, including The Hangover Part II and… Read more »
