Virgin’s 50Mbps Strategy: Next Step Is Blurring TV, PC, Mobile
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Virgin Mobile USA bought Helio earlier this year, for a paltry $39 million in equity and getting $50 million in investment from British pare… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Vodafone Artist Discovery; Handango; Virgin Mobile Apps; iPhone Copy & Paste
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Virgin Mobile Opening Up Mobile Portal
By Dianne See Morrison
Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) in the UK is opening up its mobile portal to users from other networks, in a move that repositions the company from… Read more »
Virgin Media Takes Yahoo oneSearch For New Mobile Portal
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Industry Moves: IPC Media, Virgin Media, BBCWW South Asia
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Virgin Mobile In Danger of Being De-listed From NYSE
By Rafat Ali
Pretty regulation stuff, but Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), which just announced job cuts, is in danger of being de-listed from NYSE, after r… Read more »
Virgin Mobile USA Cuts 10 Percent Of Staff
By Tricia Duryee
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) said today it’s laying off about 45 employees in its New Jersey and California offices, which represents about… Read more »
Industry Non-Moves: Virgin Mobile USA CFO John Feehan Decides To Stay
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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) CFO John Feehan has decided to stay on in his current role after announcing plans to leave for the same positio… Read more »
Virgin-Phorm Deal Remains Uncertain; It’s ‘If’, Not ‘When’
By Patrick Smith
Behavioural ad targeting network Phorm may still have the three ISP agreements it won in February – but, unlike BT (NYSE: BT), whose delayed… Read more »
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Mobile Content Bits: Verizon Sells Music Early; Virgin’s Homeless Campaign; HTC’s WiMax-GSM Phone
By Tricia Duryee
– Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has exclusive Beyonce content: Prior to Beyonce’s new album release “I AM.. SASHA FIERCE” on Nov. 18, Verizon… Read more »
AP Launches Two Youth-Oriented News Sites On Virgin Mobile USA
By Tricia Duryee
If teens don’t read newspapers, perhaps they’ll keep up with the news on their phones, or at least that’s what The Associated Press is hopin… Read more »
Virgin Media Cutting 2,200 Jobs To Save £120 Million; Not Caused By Economy
By Patrick Smith
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is to cut about 2,200 jobs in the UK by 2012 – that’s 15 percent of its workforce – in a drive to save £120 milli… Read more »
Earnings Call: Helio Lifts Virgin Mobile’s Q3 Results; Cutting Edge Services Coming
By Tricia Duryee
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) reported stronger than expected financial results today, helped by a series of actions that took place followin… Read more »
Earnings: Virgin Mobile USA Beats Expectations; Stock Rises
By Tricia Duryee
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) reported its Q3 financial results today, which is the first period that includes results from Helio, the strugg… Read more »
Virgin Media Considers Content Divison Sell-Off To Become Comms Platform, Not Content Producer
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Earnings: Virgin Media To Pay Sky Up To £38 Million In Channels Deal; Q3 Revenues and Profits Down
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Sky, Virgin End One Of Their Feuds; Channels Return Next Week
So much for Sky holding Virgin Media’s arm over the fire – the two have just agreed a deal that will see Sky’s basic channels return to the… Read more »
Earnings: SK Telecom Profit Plunges 57 Percent; Books Loss From Helio Sale
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Korean operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) reported third quarter net income plunged 57 percent to 333.6 billion won ($225 million), from sales… Read more »
Virgin In-Flight V:Port Crashes After Reading Embarrassing Story About Itself
Virgin Atlantic’s V:Port is widely recognised as one of aviation’s finest in-flight entertainment systems, an award-winning exemplar for d… Read more »
Sports Video For News Sites: Which Rights Are Right?
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Newspapers angry at increasingly stringent rules governing online sports reporting should stop griping and pay for the privilege, says one d… Read more »
Industry Moves: Virgin Media Grabs Channel4.com Ed Eames For Portal Director
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has taken aboard Channel4.com’s editor Dominic Eames to fill the new editorial director role for its languishing w… Read more »
Free Content Wins As Pay-TV Customers Cut Subs In Crunch: Research
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Almost a fifth of UK pay-TV subscribers plan to cut their outlay in the next year, with Freeview and web video proving a cheaper alternative… Read more »
Updated: Virgin Media Asks To Defer Debt Payments To 2012
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Virgin Media Adds Ads To Growing VOD Service
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Industry Moves: VMtv Hires First Digital Director
VMtv, Virgin Media’s (NSDQ: VMED) channel production wing, is embarking on a restructure that will see it appoint its first digital head. Me… Read more »
Virgin Media Hails VOD Rise, But Watch The Numbers
Not that it doesn’t do this in its regular earnings reports anyway, but Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) today put out a release trumpeting a big i… Read more »
@ Communacopia: Virgin CEO Berkett: ‘No Way’ Are We Turning Off Our Customers; Issue ‘Negligible’
By Joseph Weisenthal
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett adamantly rejected the idea of unplugging customers over anything to do with piracy. Berkett addr… Read more »
Industry Moves: Virgin Mobile CFO John Feehan Quits
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Industry Moves: Virgin Mobile USA Elects Two SK Telecom Execs To Board
By Tricia Duryee
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) has appointed SK Telecom’s Richard Chin and Sungwon Suh to its board following the acquisition of Helio and SK… Read more »
Helio By Virgin Mobile: The Life After Starts
By Rafat Ali
So it starts: Helio brand has been integrated within Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), after the acquisition earlier this year. At CTIA, the com… Read more »
@ CTIA: Glu Mobile Game; AT&T Adds Communities; Opera Joins Symbian
By Tricia Duryee
– Opera Joins Symbian Group: Browser developer Opera is now part of Symbian Foundation, a Nokia-led consortium that was set up in June to t… Read more »
Interview: MocoSpace CEO Justin Siegel: “We’ll Generate Millions Of Dollars In Ad Revenue This Year”
By Tricia Duryee
In 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will be part of a mobile social network, and that they will generate $410 million from subscripti… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: AOL iPhone Ads; Jewel Quest; MoMoney Widget; Xperia SDK; Virgin Gets buzzd
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Industry Moves: Virgin Mobile USA; Thumbplay; Motorola; Didmo
– Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA: Naval officer Daniel Acton is joining as Virgin Mobile’s new chief information and technology officer. He w… Read more »
Virgin, Perform Take Sports Highlights To Publishers With Video Widget
Online sports video distributor Perform says it has signed up ITV (LSE: ITV) Sport, News International, Telegraph.co.uk, Guardian.co.uk, Da… Read more »
Virgin Mobile USA Closes Helio Acquisition
By Tricia Duryee
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) said today it received all regulatory approvals for its acquisition of Helio. With the deal completed, Virgin M… Read more »
Sky Forging Ahead In Broadband Market As Downturn Hits Rivals
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Virgin Comics Serializes Properties On Rediff; Digital Comics; Ties Up With Grant Morrison
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Virgin comics has serialized its comic and graphic novel series including Shekhar Kapur’s Devi, Guy Ritchie’s Gamekeeper and Deepak Chopra’s… Read more »
VMUSA Call: Helio Cuts Expenses In Preparation Of Merger; Deal To Close In Next Few Weeks
By Tricia Duryee
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) reported its second-quarter earnings today saying its performance was affected by changes in consumer spending… Read more »
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