Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more at paidContent »
One Chinese City Raids An Apple Reseller In Growing iPad Trademark Row
Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reseller (not an official brand store) over the weeken… Read more at paidContent »
Samwers clone Wrapp: Have they gone too far this time?
Europe’s most notorious cloners have built their reputation by copying big American companies. But now they appear to be readying a new rival to small Swedish startup Wrapp — a change of tactics that has ‘surprised’ Wrapp CEO Hjalmar Winbladh. Read more »
Charts: Platform Wars, App Stores And Ecosystems
Smartphone sales have overtaken PC, iPhone app spend is rising and Android is beset by fragmentation problems, this visual stat compendium b… Read more at paidContent »
Ringtones reborn: Just call them notifications now
Remember Crazy Frog? The bike-riding amphibian and his irritating, ubiquitous song symbolized the premium ringtone market a few years ago, before fading into obscurity. The frog has disappeared, but one startup thinks it has found a way to evolve the idea for the modern mobile user. Read more »
Newspaper Ethics Scandal Has Not Yet Hurt Sun Sales
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While the UK’s media ethics furore ended up closing the News Of The World last year, how did News Corp.’s next-best-selling UK newspaper far… Read more at paidContent »
Update: Netflix Pays $9 Million To Settle Video Privacy Lawsuit
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) disclosed this afternoon that it will pay to settle nationwide claims that it illegally retained customers’ rental hist… Read more at paidContent »
FT Stakes Claim To 2.2 Million Daily Audience
The Financial Times now reaches 2.2m people across the world on a daily basis, according to the latest Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA)… Read more at paidContent »
Roku adds BBC iPlayer to bolster UK launch
Roku has filled a vital gap in its lineup by announcing the addition of a channel for the BBC’s popular iPlayer service, just as it starts shipping its media streaming boxes to Britain for the first time. Read more »
Zeebox Searches For Money In TV’s Social Second Screen
After quickly gaining a warm reception and a rapid post-launch investment from BSkyB, the social TV app startup co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Apple’s iPad 3 Set To Arrive In Early March
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It’s been almost a year since former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2, and according to a new report, the company pla… Read more at paidContent »
Spotify, iTunes Expansion Helping WMG Hit Digital Music Milestones
Recent roll-outs to new countries of download and streaming services helped Michael Bublé’s Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) offset physical… Read more at paidContent »
Virgin Media Slow To Build A Revolution On TiVo
Virgin Media thinks its new-ish TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set top box is a game changer. But, whilst the new box – with a big PVR drive, capability… Read more at paidContent »
This man wants to kill QR codes. Can he do it?
Advertisers and publishers have swarmed over QR codes as they try to add interactivity to analog media. Now the Swiss team behind retooled mobile app Shortcut hopes they can help make the black-and-white glyphs a thing of the past. Read more »
How Accenture Used A Mobile App To Get On The BBC
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When the consulting firm’s logo appeared routinely in Six Nations rugby broadcast graphics this weekend, James Cridland was amongst the view… Read more at paidContent »
Art discovery service Artfinder draws new funding
London-based art discovery service Artfinder is set to step up its plans for taking high culture to the web, after bringing in a second round of funding from Northzone, Greylock, and Wellington Partners. Read more »
News Corp: Earnings Surge But Scandal Bill Hits $104 Million
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News Corp surpassed analyst expectations in quarterly earnings announced today, but the numbers reflected two wildly divergent trends. Read more at paidContent »
GigaOM And paidContent Join Forces
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Yes, it’s true: We are joining GigaOM. And the combined group will be a powerhouse, with more than 20 writers and editors, a strong pr… Read more at paidContent »
Oh Baby, Lovefilm’s CEO is Bouncing To Mothercare
After building up Lovefilm and selling it to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), CEO Simon Calver is leaving for an unusual new challenge in retail, as CEO… Read more at paidContent »
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
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Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) – but, in reality, the tw… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more at paidContent »
Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of vid… Read more at paidContent »
Nokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read more at paidContent »
Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT r… Read more at paidContent »
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition – UK digital revenues made up for print r… Read more at paidContent »
Exclusive Video: Mirror.co.uk Relaunches Amid Group Cuts
As it lays off another 75 staff and faces questions over CEO Sly Bailey’s salary, Trinity Mirror’s Mirror Group Newspapers is relaunching it… Read more at paidContent »
Nokia factories shift to Asia: Did it have any choice?
Embattled Nokia is hoping it can become faster and more competitive by shifting the heart of its manufacturing operations to Asia, a move which will see 4,000 jobs cut in Finland, Hungary and Mexico but will be seen as long overdue. Read more »
Industry Moves: Telegraph, We R Interactive, Briefing Media, Turner
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Promises A Crack Down On Those Who Manipulate App Store Rankings
It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Ap… Read more at paidContent »
RIM: App World Is Now At 60,000 Apps; 13 Percent Of Publishers Earn $100k+
Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, dela… Read more at paidContent »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more at paidContent »
Populis Blog Network Buying In To Latin America
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, t… Read more at paidContent »
How Google will court startups at London ‘Campus’
More details have emerged about Google’s intriguing plan to open a co-working space in London’s trendy startup district — but businesses and the authorities should be careful of reading too much into the move. Read more »
Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad–But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy
The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more at paidContent »
Chinese Ad Money Moving Quickly From Print To Web
Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country’s largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SO… Read more at paidContent »
Technical Difficulties
We apologize that this newsletter is reaching you later than usual. We had some technical difficulties. Read more at paidContent »
Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile
When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in… Read more at paidContent »
HTC Needs A (New) Hero: Q4 Earnings, Forecasts Point to Lean Times
Another bad-news day for HTC, which is sorely in need of one or two killer, new products to turn around its fortunes in the ever-competitive… Read more at paidContent »
Slovakia’s News Pay Wall Gets A Little Higher
The content payment system which signed up many of Slovakia’s leading publishers in 2011 is now adding two more. Read more at paidContent »
Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more at paidContent »
