Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Germany, one involving IP licensing on older iPhone models (not the 4S) and one involving iCloud. However, as the day progressed, an injunction on…

The ongoing, back-and-forth legal fight that is the Apple/Samsung patent dispute today took on a new dimension in one of its key battlegrounds, when the European Commission launched an antitrust inquiry into Samsung’s technology licensing practices.

It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a…

Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is back on top as the bestselling smartphone in the U.S. Android has managed to hold on to its position in the UK but there, too, Apple massively increased its…

Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.

Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will be playing a key role, and so, it seems, will carriers.

MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…

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…

Some countries in Europe, like France, are looking at ways of extending their copyright protection laws to streamed media, in addition to existing laws against unlicensed downloads. Other countries, it seems, are going in quite the other direction, as a recent decision in the Netherlands shows.

It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million subscribers for its music services in the U.S.

Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among the general population. Ofcom says the UK and Japan are among the countries leading the way to that milestone as consumers turn away from PC usage—a trend…

The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west.

Two more advances in the ongoing, international fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android tablet maker Samsung over alleged patent violations, this time in France and Australia, plus one more appeal from Apple in the case being heard in a U.S. district court in California. With no obvious overall “winner”…

One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answer to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Store retail phenomenon, the unveiling of an Android retail operation, in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Samsung got dealt one more blow in Sydney’s courtrooms, as…

A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimously decided that it can go ahead with sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, possibly as soon as Friday. But even with sales getting the all-clear, some…

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 that reputation even further: the patent-holding company IPCom says that it plans to execute an existing injunction on HTC to prohibit the…

Could there be a little glimmer of light at the end of the tablet injunction tunnel for Samsung in Australia? With Christmas now exactly one month away, a panel of appeals judges in Sydney is considering overturning the order that has prohibited Samsung from launching its 10.1-inch tablet in the…

As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just the last two days, no less than four major mobile players have been linked with new initiatives around NFC technology, the wave-and-pay system that its supporters hope…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has been working through a massive cost-cutting downsizing program, laying off thousands of employees, closing plants, and outsourcing operations. Today comes news of another consolidation: the company is delisting from the Frankfurt stock exchange in Germany.