Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2012 6:13 AM
Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China Telecom, says that it will start to sell the iPhone 4S by the end of this month or early March.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 26, 2012 6:14 AM
Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The handset maker confirmed analyst estimates that it has sold over a million Lumia Windows Phone handsets - but that didn’t stop a horrible 31 percent slide in its…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 24, 2012 8:29 AM
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), as it winds up as a troubled joint venture to become fully part of Sony, is spinning out some talent in the process: it’s understood that Anderson Teixeira, formerly an executive that had run different regional operations for the JV, is now Apple’s first…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 23, 2012 10:22 AM
Monday marks China’s new year. The dragon, whose year it is this year, is the only mythical creature in the calendar but, as Europe’s digital commissioner Neelie Kroes writes, also “is the innovative entrepreneur, intensely powerful yet flexible, and the bringer of great fortune”.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 18, 2012 5:11 AM
Another day, and another big digital investment from the world’s largest advertising firm. WPP subsidiary Ogilvy has taken a 33.3 percent stake in DTDigital, a digital marketing agency based in Melbourne, Australia. The move is not just another signal of the firm’s growing base of interactive holdings, but one more…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 13, 2012 5:04 AM
We know that consumers in China love Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) products, and that Apple is famous for the lines that form outside its stores in advance of the launch of a new product. But things got a little out of hand earlier today in Beijing, as a mob of people…
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Penn Olson
Jan 11, 2012 8:45 AM
Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS) Home Entertainment to license 250 films.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 11, 2012 6:37 AM
Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s ruling Communist Party, has filed to float its People’s Daily Online website in Shanghai to raise 527 million yuan ($83.4 million).
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 11, 2012 5:35 AM
Dell is not among the companies announcing a new tablet this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, but it made sure to keep its name in the air. It says it plans to release a brand new tablet in late 2012, as part of a redoubled effort after…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 10, 2012 7:04 AM
It is a busy week for digital media news in the Far East, ahead of the Chinese New Year on January 23. Notably, more new e-book services are coming, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is sued for assisting e-book piracy and the door is open to foreign investment in digital music…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 9, 2012 5:46 AM
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is putting a big bet on China, where its products and services have proven hugely popular, but that could also leave it exposed to a few bad beats along the way: the company is currently being sued by a group of Chinese writers, who are accusing the…
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Dee Gill
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Jan 5, 2012 12:03 PM
Investors who missed out on the biggest gains from U.S. innovations – internet search engines, online job listings and cell phone popularity, for example – have traditionally found fantastic consolation prizes in the shares of companies that do similar work, later, in Asia. But can investing in a Google (NSDQ:…
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Steven Millward
Penn Olson
Jan 5, 2012 10:31 AM
With it now certain that China’s popular Weibo (microblogging) services – prime among them being Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) and Tencent’s (HKG:0700) – will have to implement real-name ID checks in the coming months, it appears that the system will not come cheap.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 8:19 AM
China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies like Apple are doubling down on their investments there. But similarly, Chinese mobile players are looking at ways of exporting their products and playing on their brands abroad, and…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 6:49 AM
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011—not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken former CEO Carol Bartz. Will the company this year try to stabilize and play things a bit more quietly? Just days into 2012, a report has emerged that…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 3, 2012 6:13 AM
The smartphone and tablet buying rush over the holidays spilled over into a corresponding deluge of app downloads, with the total weekly number exceeding one billion for the first time.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 30, 2011 7:00 AM
This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. According to figures from ZenithOptimedia, global advertising revenues will reach $486 billion…
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Robert Andrews
Dec 28, 2011 6:15 AM
Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 12:09 PM
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but when it comes to making money for developers, it looks like Apple’s iPhone app storefront is still very much in the lead. And freemium looks…
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Steven Millward
Penn Olson
Dec 16, 2011 6:57 AM
China’s two largest video-streaming sites, Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) and Youku (NYSE:YOKU), are heading for a legal battle after Tudou announced that it is taking action – together with its license partner Cti TV – over alleged piracy of a popular TV series on Youku.
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