We’re used to how the social web has disrupted media, but that same wave is moving through other industries, driven by startups like Airbnb, Coursera and Uber — and while regulators and entrenched industries are trying to fight it, the trend behind that wave is unstoppable. Read more »
Google has apparently offered to indicate when its search results point to its own properties, in its ongoing negotiations with EC antitrust investigators. But that offer likely doesn’t neutralise the original complaints. Read more at paidContent »
Europe approves Universal’s bid for EMI’s music catalogue by compelling the combined entity to off-load artists including Coldplay and Gorillaz, so that is not large enough to hike prices required from new digital music services. Read more at paidContent »
When is “bye-bye buffering” not “bye-bye buffering”? When Virgin Media acknowledges its own ad starring Olympic athlete Usain Bolt was mere “puffery”, landing it in regulatory hot water. Read more at paidContent »
When is a book not a book? When it comes to European tax law. The continent is acting against two countries that reduced e-book tax to physical rates, in a sorry and technocratic action. Read more at paidContent »
Nike falls foul of UK advertising regulators because sponsored tweets for which it paid two top footballers were not obviously marked out as marketing. Read more at paidContent »
The UK parliamentary committee’s report into whether it was misled over phone hacking makes conclusions including: “Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.” Read more at paidContent »
After advertising’s regulator investigated complaints, Apple has agreed to remove the “4G” label in a country that can’t yet support a “4G” iPad. But complaints keep coming. Read more »
Advertising companies like Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are usually on the front line of the digital privacy debate. But in a long-await… Read more at paidContent »
The UK’s controversial video-on-demand regulator, which has angered some web publishers by charging them to be regulated against their wishe… Read more at paidContent »
As America’s top privacy cop, the Federal Trade Commission is in the thick of balancing tech and privacy issues. In the last year, it has be… Read more at paidContent »
Welcome news from Nick Bilton: the FAA finally is revisiting the policy that keeps Kindles, iPads and the like turned off during takeoffs an… Read more at paidContent »
The UK inquiry in to whether Sky Movies’ exclusive first-run subscription VOD deals with six major Hollywood major studios is anti-competiti… Read more at paidContent »
The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly asked Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to supply information as part of its investigation into whether Google… Read more at paidContent »
She may not be convinced of the name, but “cloud” computing has risen close to top of European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes’ 2012… Read more at paidContent »
A controversial Twitter marketing campaign that used celebrities, not Promoted Tweets, to advertise chocolate did not cross a line, the UK’s… Read more at paidContent »
UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the larg… Read more at paidContent »
The European Commission reckons it could unlock €110 ($147.99/£93.27) billion a year in new digital business by harmonising rules for the… Read more at paidContent »
A federal judge today declined to order the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) over impending changes to th… Read more at paidContent »
The US government and the European Commission today gave the green light to Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobil… Read more at paidContent »
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 »
It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hop… Read more at paidContent »
An influential European privacy body has urged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to “pause” its new privacy policy due to be implemented in March. The Art… Read more at paidContent »
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 »
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 »
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 »
A set of quarterly results today from AT&T (NYSE: T) that underscored some of the aftershocks the carrier is feeling in the wake of its fail… Read more at paidContent »
Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile… Read more at paidContent »
One of the biggest components in Nokia’s expensive campaign for its latest flagship handset broke UK media rules by mixing its sponsorships… Read more at paidContent »
Don’t expect the European Commission to introduce its own version of America’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Read more at paidContent »
Two contrary advertising watchdog rulings against the same movie company highlight how video advertising to children is handled differently… Read more at paidContent »
It’s a wonder they pulled this off. An obscure agency and a number of its former officials are about to get rich by selling new internet nam… Read more at paidContent »
While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn… Read more at paidContent »
Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But s… Read more at paidContent »
Twitter and some pundits are crying foul over Google’s decision to exclude certain competitors from its new search and social networking hyb… Read more at paidContent »
The Supreme Court will hear today whether the FCC can punish broadcast networks for airing one-off cuss words and an actress’s derriere. The… Read more at paidContent »
Illegal downloading of copyrighted content is up to twice as prevalent as perpetrators admit, according to research that will inform how Ofc… Read more at paidContent »
Recent interviews shed light on how the antitrust cases against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers will unfold. The e-book controversy w… Read more at paidContent »
The BBC Trust has approved plans to run advertising on a number of BBC World Service websites as well as in radio broadcasts for the first t… Read more at paidContent »
With it now certain that China’s popular Weibo (microblogging) services – prime among them being Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) and Tencent’s (HKG:0… Read more at paidContent »
