After the Court of Appeal in London told Britain’s two biggest Internet providers they must abide the controversial antipiracy rules brought in by the Digital Economy Act, some experts suggest it could spark a SOPA-style protest. Is it likely? Read more »
In the never-ending quest to provide easy sound bites and press-friendly stats, startups often flirt with numbers that just don’t make sense. Case in point: London-based kids’ website Moshi Monsters, which has a very strange piece of numerical wizardry. Read more »
Notable about all the places that offer free WiFi in London is a requirement to accept the terms and conditions – and, in almost all cases… Read more at paidContent »
The rising number of startup accelerators across Europe can leave budding entrepreneurs bamboozled. Step forward UK investment group NESTA, which is compiling a detailed list of the continent’s programs. Read more »
London-based peer to peer currency exchange Transferwise has passed €10 million in transactions, saving customers nearly half a million Euros in fees that would have otherwise landed in the hands of the banking industry. Read more »
Despite being known as Europe’s answer to Square, the payments service iZettle has only officially been available in Sweden since launching last year. Now that’s changing, with news of a rollout across Norway, Denmark and Finland, and the first step toward a British service too. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Tim Cook has made his first major appointment at Apple — by handing over control of the company’s retail stores to a British businessman who has built his reputation largely through pile-em-high tactics and aggressive expansion. Read more »
Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waters… Read more at paidContent »
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) is taking a beating at the moment from handset makers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung, which have eaten into a smartpho… Read more at paidContent »
Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The ha… Read more at paidContent »
Britain’s Daily Mail has eclipsed rivals including the New York Times to become the web’s biggest newspaper. But other media companies hoping to emulate its success will have their work cut out — unless they’re prepared to play fast and loose with the normal rules of journalism. Read more »
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 day before Nokia is due to announce its next set of quarterly results, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has made three announcements: a milestone reach… Read more at paidContent »
Square, the high-profile mobile payments company started by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, has yet to launch outside the U.S. But in the meantime, a… Read more at paidContent »
Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Po… Read more at paidContent »
In a climate where economic forecasts continue to remain cloudy, ad spend in the UK went up marginally in Q4 2011, with increased spend on i… Read more at paidContent »
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations. Read more at paidContent »
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr… Read more at paidContent »
Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services — specifically around more content getting pushed to… Read more at paidContent »
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire… 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 »
CES, currently in full swing in Las Vegas, promises to bring out another wave of Android tablets, to add to the 40+ that were on the market… Read more at paidContent »
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will… Read more at paidContent »
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, to… Read more at paidContent »
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010… Read more at paidContent »
China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies lik… Read more at paidContent »
When the CEO of News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), Rupert Murdoch, joined Twitter a few days ago as an official, verified account, endorsed even… Read more at paidContent »
More money for European tech startups: Wroclaw, Poland based mobile games publisher Tequila Mobile has announced a $1.7 round of funding, as… Read more at paidContent »
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more wa… Read more at paidContent »
Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. Read more at paidContent »
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, an… Read more at paidContent »
Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a seri… Read more at paidContent »
Nearly 10 percent of traffic to UK newspaper websites comes from non-computer devices — that’s the highest in the world, according to comSc… Read more at paidContent »
