Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing mass… Read more at paidContent »
BT Overhauling Vision As It Maintains Summer YouView Launch Forecast
BT (NYSE: BT) signed up 39,000 customers to its Vision hybrid Freeview/IPTV service between September and December, taking it to 679,000.
Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted
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 Ge… Read more at paidContent »
A Second News International Paper Faces Questions In Hacking Investigation
The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times, poli… Read more at paidContent »
Bloomberg’s Lex Fenwick Named Dow Jones CEO
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) has appointed Lex Fenwick as the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, filling the position left open following Les Hinton’s re… Read more at paidContent »
Axel Springer Takes A Slice Of Airbnb In Exposure Deal
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Apartment-letting site Airbnb will get investment, endorsement and distribution from the publisher of Europe’s most-read newspaper. Read more at paidContent »
Flaregames And Tusjuegos Take Funds To Build And Sell Games
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Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Launches Junglee.com Marketplace In India
Hoping to tap into India’s rapidly growing e-commerce market, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching Junglee.com in the country today. Read more at paidContent »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more at paidContent »
Sony’s New CEO Sets ‘Clear Path’, And Unveils Big Losses
Sony’s new president and CEO has quite a task on his hands. A day after Kazuo Hirai was appointed to replace Howard Stringer, who remains as… Read more at paidContent »
Living In A Smartphone World: Apple Number-Three Among ALL Mobile Players
It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position… Read more at paidContent »
Now Facebook Must Prove To Wall Street Its Ads Really Work
Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must… Read more at paidContent »
It’s playtime: Toca Boca heads for America
Swedish iOS studio Toca Boca has become a hit with parents and kids around the world, thanks to its smart suite of simple, open games. Now it plans to open a U.S. office and target the American market in 2012. Read more »
The Facebook IPO Lowdown 2-1-12
» Facebook’s biggest risks explained (ReadWriteWeb)
» Is Facebook’s IPO the start of something, or the end? (GigaOm)… Read more at paidContent »
Pirate Bay considers European courts after Swedish ruling
Peter Sunde, one of the Pirate Bay founders convicted of aiding copyright infringement, has told GigaOM that the group could go to the European court, after Sweden’s top judges refused to hear their appeal against a guilty verdict handed down in 2009. Read more »
2.7 Billion Daily Likes And Other Key Numbers From Facebook’s S-1
Facebook’s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of peopl… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook’s Status Update: $5 Billion IPO Filed
It took the whole day, but Facebook finally — as many expected — filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaite… Read more at paidContent »
Samsung Takes The Apple Route For Its Next Big Launch, the Galaxy S III
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung… Read more at paidContent »
Latest Job Cuts Are Sad – But That’s 2012 Newspaper Reality
So it’s redundancy time once again. First, at the two Telegraph titles and now at the Mirror trio. Read more at paidContent »
RIM’s First BlackBerry 10 Handset Could Be Smaller Version Of Playbook
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) will be pinning its comeback hopes on the first generation of BlackBerry phones to run its BlackBerry 10 ope… Read more at paidContent »
Why Some Book Buyers Are Increasingly Resistant To E-Readers
Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader… Read more at paidContent »
Apple denied Galaxy Tab 10.1N ban in Germany
Apple has failed to secure a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphone in Germany, thanks to a ruling by the Munich Regional Court Wednesday. That should help take the sting out of the appeal it lost on Tuesday. Read more »
Report: China Telecom Will Finally Get The iPhone 4S In February
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… Read more at paidContent »
More Android Forking? Disney Teams Up With Japan’s Docomo For 2 New Phones
Disney (NYSE: DIS) Mobile, the short-lived U.S. MVNO that found a new lease of life in Japan through a Softbank JV in 2008, has now launched… Read more at paidContent »
Videoplaza Raises $12 Million For Its Multiscreen Video Ad Platform
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s ano… Read more at paidContent »
Britain unleashes gov.uk, its Google for government
A new portal that lets British citizens access government services online has just launched in beta. It’s fast, easy, accessible — and should save the tax payer bundles of cash. Is this a model for the future of connected government? Read more »
Myriad Eyes Synchronica, Says Messaging Company Can’t Pay Its Nokia Debt
Some fallout from the various asset offloads we have seen from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the last year: Synchronica, which bought Nokia’s messagi… Read more at paidContent »
Industry Moves: Yahoo; Warner Bros.; Future Publishing
– Yahoo: In a reorganization of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) EMEA, Marketing VP James Tipple and Marketing Director Andrew Cocker have left the compa… Read more at paidContent »
Sony’s Crackle Launches On Xbox Live
Sony’s Crackle streaming-video service, which needs to expand its reach to compete in the connected-TV market, debuted on Xbox Live video ne… Read more at paidContent »
First Look: BBC Sport Site’s Long-Overdue Reboot Ahead Of Olympics
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The BBC will on Wednesday morning refresh its BBC Sport site for the first time significantly since 2004, with a greater emphasis on live da… Read more at paidContent »
Social Network Ads: LinkedIn Falls Behind Twitter; Facebook Biggest Of All
It remains to be seen whether all social networks can be profitable on advertising alone — and crucially what formats will work best alongs… Read more at paidContent »
Bebo Owner: ‘It’s Definitely Not Going Out Of Business’
A major outage in service at Bebo apparently does not mean the social network has bitten the dust indefinitely, despite what its co-founder… Read more at paidContent »
Google Set To Relaunch OnePass, Halting French Papers’ Kiosk
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paidContent understands Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is set to make some big first-anniversary upgrades to its OnePass paid content system in the nex… Read more at paidContent »
Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission
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 battlegroun… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Picks Dixons Group CEO Browett As New Retail SVP
Napoleon once described the UK as a “nation of shopkeepers”, so it is somewhat fitting that this is where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gone to fin… Read more at paidContent »
As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals?
BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growt… Read more at paidContent »
Sky Will De-Couple Pay-TV Content From Satellite For IPTV Era
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is acting to head off rising City concerns about the threat from over-the-top connected TV services, by announcing it will… Read more at paidContent »
German court upholds Galaxy Tab injunction, EU eyes Samsung’s patent claims
Apple won a small victory in Germany on Tuesday as the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court upheld its injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. In the meantime, the European Union is putting Samsung’s recent patent claims under a regulatory microscope with a full-scale investigation. Read more »
