Laura Hazard Owen
Feb 2, 2012 9:25 AM
Hoping to tap into India’s rapidly growing e-commerce market, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching Junglee.com in the country today.
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 20, 2012 12:37 PM
The reverb from Kevin Delaney’s departure from the Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media Group just hit DC: WSJ alum Raju Narisetti is headed back to the Journal, swapping his role as managing editor of the Washington Post responsible for digital for managing editor of The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ:…
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Roy Greenslade
MediaGuardian
Jan 19, 2012 4:48 AM
The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 29, 2011 10:01 AM
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more ways than ever before to watch TV content whenever and however we want. But despite the growth of services like Hulu, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 14, 2011 11:45 AM
Confirming earlier reports, T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to sell a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows Phone in the U.S.—a key market for the beleaguered handset maker. Rather than splashing into the U.S. with a high-end, expensive product, Nokia is taking the more humble route and launching with the…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 9, 2011 8:31 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone devices, the cheaper Lumia 710, with the first devices going to the company’s stronghold in developing markets—Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia—within the next…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 9, 2011 2:00 AM
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are, at least in part, taking somewhat different paths in their search for fresh revenues: Vodafone is increasingly looking at its investments in emerging markets,…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 26, 2011 8:07 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) unveiled four new Symbian S40 handsets designed to appeal to upwardly-mobile youngsters in emerging-markets with smartphone-like features.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 13, 2011 8:48 AM
Times Of India’s online division is getting mobile and internet highlights of English soccer’s Premier League, after cutting a deal with online sports rights operator and broadcaster Perform Group.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 13, 2011 5:35 AM
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 regions that were affected by the fail in its infrastructure on Monday, which knocked out email, BBM messaging and all data services for millions of…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 12, 2011 6:53 AM
Beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s bad week is not getting much better. As the company entered its third day of service outage in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina, Stephen Bates, the head of the company’s UK operation, covering some seven million BlackBerry users, ducked…
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Charles Arthur
MediaGuardian
Oct 11, 2011 12:55 PM
Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is facing a user revolt after tens of millions of users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa suffered a second day without services such as BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), as the company struggled with problems at its hub in Slough, Berkshire.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 11, 2011 9:29 AM
The world of apps is only getting bigger, so it seems fitting that another company is jumping in to try to make sense of it all. One of the newer players in this area, Xyologic, is now taking its international research one step further: it is producing monthly numbers for…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 5, 2011 10:00 AM
Move over, Kindle Fire - the world has a new cheapest tablet computer. India’s government has announced a new Android-powered tablet called Aakash priced at between $35 and $60 that could set a light under the booming country’s digital content market.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 5, 2011 8:53 AM
Using stats from a mobile advertising network do not give the most complete picture of the mobile market, but they do highlight some interesting usage trends. So take the following, perhaps, with a grain of salt: One report out today from the ad network Jumptap notes that there may be…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 5, 2011 6:10 AM
Quite a few commentators expressed a sense of deflation when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced its newest device yesterday, the iPhone 4S. Now some analysts are weighing in with their prospects on how the new device might sell.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 3, 2011 12:16 PM
And you thought the $199 Kindle Fire was cheap? The Indian government last week promised a rumoured $35 tablet is due to be unveiled this week.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 3, 2011 6:36 AM
There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world—and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto some logs to kill a pig? But not all apps are as wildly successful as Angry Birds. So just as importantly, when it comes to what…
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Penn Olson
Sep 28, 2011 6:03 AM
Google India head Rajan Anandan yesterday announced in a press conference that it has joined hands with the Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan to promote its new social network, Google+. He also added that the actor who is often referred to as the “The King of Bollywood,” will be one of…
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Penn Olson
Sep 20, 2011 1:31 PM
It looks like YouTube Box Office is working pretty well for Google India.
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