Ingrid Lunden
Nov 4, 2011 8:05 AM
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 main music trade body, the BPI, has today teamed up others in the creative industries to request BT (NYSE: BT), the UK’s leading broadband provider, to…
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Robert Andrews
Staci D. Kramer
Oct 6, 2011 3:00 AM
After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boost the on-demand programming available through Xbox Live. It took a shift in strategy to make room for broadcasters like the BBC, the trend toward authentication to bring on…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 19, 2011 8:38 AM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples of how its trying to diversify for a later day. It has bought the German Groupon clone Daily Deal and it has started rolling out its…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 31, 2011 5:44 PM
Many consumers were never completely sure of the correct way to pronounce it, and it has had mixed success as a household name synonymous with cloud-based entertainment, so it comes as not too much of a surprise to hear that Sony (NYSE: SNE) has now dropped the Qriocity brand. Instead,…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 22, 2011 9:22 AM
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 electronics supplies, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is going ahead with its scheduled launch of the iPad 2 outside the U.S.
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 2, 2011 7:02 AM
Publishers in Europe are up in arms over Apple’s decision to reject Sony’s Reader app. They say Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has left them “confused” with their charging policies, and are now gearing up to meet in London later this month to plan what to do next.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 20, 2011 12:58 PM
What is Apple’s preferred big idea for iPad news and magazine subscriptions? We don’t know - a possible newsstand announcement may have been pushed back with the joint The Daily announcement, or scheduled with an upcoming iPad 2 announcement. But what we do know is, some publishers this week voiced…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 5, 2011 5:59 PM
Jinni, a website which offers visitors movie and TV show recommendations, has raised $5 million in a new funding round led by two strategic investors, including an unspecified connected-TV maker. On Jinni, users either enter a mood or a plot or alternatively select among various topics in order to see…
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