E-Book Sales Grow By 564%, Now Make Up 5.5% Of Bloomsbury Sales
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Bloomsbury Publishing, which operates in both the U.S. and UK (and is the UK publisher of the Harry Potter series) is seeing “unprecedented”… Read more »
Nokia Spreads The Lumia Love: 85k Free Devices To Developers, Bloggers
photo: Tom Krazit
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has pushed hard to get its first two Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows-based phones out before the holiday season. The indust… Read more »
Amazon’s Acquisition Of The Book Depository Gets Official OK
Despite industry organizations’ fears that Amazon’s acquisition of UK online bookseller The Book Depository will create a de facto monopoly,… Read more »
Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making ne… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-24-11
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» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent)
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Meredith’s Marketing Push Goes Global With Stake In Iris
Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP), the publisher of women’s magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle and local TV operator, has… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-18-11
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» Yahoo’s Levinsohn On Executive Chaos: ‘You Sort Of Get Used To It’ (paidContent)
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With Sales Of Four Million, The iPhone 4S Is A New Record Breaker For Apple
photo: Staci D. Kramer
It looks like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is once again rewriting the books on what it is that makes a smartphone sell. Those who thought that the iP… Read more »
BlackBerry Service Back Up. Co-CEOs Lazaridis, Balsillie Apologize, Again
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This morning RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis took to the Internet two more times, once via YouTube and once, with co-CEO Jim Balsillie, in a web… Read more »
Update: BlackBerry Outage Improving, Compensation Questions, CEO Speaks Up
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Well, that wasn’t quick. But at least it’s good news: RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) says that its services are now finally getting restored in all the re… Read more »
Update: BlackBerry Outage Day Three, RIM Still Investigating, U.S. Impact?
Beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s bad week is not getting much better.
As the company entered its third day of service outa… Read more »
Telefonica’s O2 Tries Its Hand At Skype-Like VoIP Calls With O2 Connect
photo: O2 Germany
T-Mobile has Bobsled in the U.S., and now O2 in the UK is jumping into the Internet-calling waters with a new service called O2 Connect. Read more »
BlackBerry Users Revolt Against RIM As Disruption Spreads
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Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is facing a user revolt after tens of millions of users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa suff… Read more »
Big Apple Indeed: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million On One Day
We’ve been hearing anecdotal evidence over the last few days, but now some official word from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) itself: the iPhone 4S is pr… Read more »
Is Consolidation In Mobile Ads Overrated? Madvertise Raises $10 Million
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We have seen some evidence of consolidation in mobile advertising, but if anything, there seem to be even more signs of investors looking to… 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 »
RIM, Chasing Its Own iCloud, Buys NewBay For $100 Million
photo: Corbis / Vigfus Birgisson
Here’s an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, a… Read more »
Updated: Ice Cream Sandwich Melts? Google, Samsung Move Nexus Prime Launch
People that have been gearing up for the launch of Google’s newest Android iteration, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Samsung’s latest signature dev… Read more »
Bonjour, Amazon. Kindle Store Debuts In France With Its First French Kindle
Yesterday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched its first eBookstore outside of the U.S. in the UK, but it will have to step up the pace by quite a b… Read more »
Google eBookstore Launches In UK
In its first international launch, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore is now open for business in the UK. Australian and Canadian stores wil… Read more »
BBC Cuts: Digital To Get £40 Million Annual ‘Innovation Fund’
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Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC — it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-06-11
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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 »
Apple Goes For A Shutout In Australia, Says No To Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Deal
If it sounded like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might just agree to some kind of deal with Samsung in Australia — which would have let Samsung launch… Read more »
‘Daily Mail’ Jumps The Gun On Knox Verdict With Embarrassing Results
photo: Credit: Malcom Coles
The internet makes it possible to broadcast breaking news at a pace unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. Unfortunately, that includes the… Read more »
The Rising iPhone Tide Will Lift Some Carrier Boats More Than Others
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Only one day left to iPhone news nirvana, and a lot of leaks are coming through about who will get to sell the device — and what, exactly,… Read more »
Halo Networks Gets £1.6 Million First Round To Offload Mobile Data To WiFi
The high cost of mobile data — not just for consumers but for mobile operators facing huge traffic on their networks with the rise of smart… Read more »
Chapter Four In The Linux OS Saga: Nokia Making Meltemi For Low-End Mobiles
With Intel (NSDQ: INTC) now focused on Tizen, a new Linux effort with Samsung and the Limo Foundation; and no concrete signs of further hand… Read more »
Amazon’s Lukewarm Fire: No Kindle Tablets Outside U.S.
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has revealed its price-busting Kindle Fire tablet for $199 alongside a new touchscreen Kindle Touch. But that news will… Read more »
Apple Has Fanboys But This Is Crazy: 41 Percent Of Users To Buy iPhone 5?
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Has iPhone hype gone into the stratosphere or is this just a ploy to get a company’s name into the press? A new survey claims to have found… Read more »
Google Picks Inrix For Mapping Realtime Data
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Location, location, location: it’s the time-honored mantra of real-estate agents and retailers, but could just as well be applied to Google… Read more »
Nokia Ships Its Lone MeeGo Sailor, The N9
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be hard at work right now trying to ensure that its first Windows Phone devices are beautiful and perfect when the go… Read more »
Samsung: Second Tablet Injunction? Asks 2.4 Percent Chip Royalty From Apple
photo: Samsung
New developments today in the fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung over design and patent infringements in the company’s smartphones… Read more »
Mobile Interactive Group Buys Digital Jigsaw, Seeks More Cross-Platform Biz
Some more consolidation in the digital marketing space, with one of the UK’s bigger mobile specialists, Mobile Interactive Group, showing th… Read more »
Dennis Publishing Recasts Magazine Editorial In 20 “One Shot Content” Apps
Dennis Publishing, publishers of 70 print and online titles including Maxim, Men’s Fitness and the adult comic Viz, has not been shy to dip… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-23-11: Google Spain; Apple Stock, Apple In China; ZTE; HP
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google has started to quietly distribute its own SIM cards with Nexus S devi… Read more »
Telefonica Seeks Social Media Mojo With Twitter And Layar Integration
Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), the multinational operator with mobile networks spanning across Europe and Latin America, is now fully focused on sq… Read more »
Tablet Shipments Exceeding Forecasts; Still Apple’s Game To Lose
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It’s debatable whether and when tablets will become as mainstream as mobile phones or PCs, but in their own right, their sales trajectory ap… Read more »
Japan’s E-commerce Giant Rakuten Buying Play.com For £25 Million
It’s not all about online content distribution, you know?
Play.com, the UK site that sells games, movies, music and more on ye olde plastic… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-21-11: Apple October 4; Google; HTC; Tablet Forecasts
photo: Getty Images / David Paul Morris
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Apple looks like it has a date for its much-anticipated new product announce… Read more »
