Report: In Europe, Not All Windows Open For Netflix
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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 »
Mobile News Consumption Is Highest In UK
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 »
Rhapsody Now Has One Million Music Subs In The U.S. Next Stop: Europe
It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Nokia Lumia Accounted For Only 0.17 Percent Of UK Sales In November
Some pretty damning early statistics out today for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the Lumia 800: according to a new survey, i… Read more at paidContent »
News Corp.'s Sun Wins Appeal: Video On News Sites Won't Be Regulated As VOD
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications re… Read more at paidContent »
New Advertising JV In UK: Hi-Media Partners With Weborama
A bit of consolidation in the online advertising world in the UK, and another step to strengthen the ad-exchange business model: Hi-Media, t… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: BT Sues Google Over Android, Other Services
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is no stranger to patent lawsuits these days, but the latest development could be the first to see a carrier go after th… Read more at paidContent »
Al Jazeera, Apple Could Drive Up Sky Sports' Soccer Costs
Cash-rich pay-TV service Al Jazeera Sports could force Sky Sports to bid 25 percent more for 2013-16 Premier League rights when negotiations… Read more at paidContent »
Google Gobbling Up Even More UK Searches
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is again gaining search share in a market it already overwhelmingly dominates. Read more at paidContent »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more at paidContent »
How Transferwise turns currency exchange upside down
London startup Transferwise wants to be the Skype of currency exchange, disrupting existing services that charge customers heavily for moving their money. But can its low-cost, peer-to-peer approach really succeed? Read more »
Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com
Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more at paidContent »
El Huffington Post: Arianna Goes To Spain With El Pais Partnership
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The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Apple TV Streaming Quietly Goes International
Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream sho… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Be Going International Sooner Rather Than Later
Amazon’s Kindle Fire today is only on sale in the U.S., but according to one report that Fire could be spreading to the UK as soon as Januar… Read more at paidContent »
HTC Highlights How Fickle The Mobile Market Can Be: That Spells Opportunity
Looking at HTC over the last week or two, it’s almost hard to believe that it is the top-ranking smartphone maker that the analysts claim it… Read more at paidContent »
7digital Music Adds Microsoft To Its App List, Still Awaits Apple Approval
Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sa… Read more at paidContent »
Financial Times Launches Dedicated Android App
With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android a… Read more at paidContent »
British regulators extend scrutiny of Groupon
After finding Groupon’s U.K. operation in breach of advertising rules nearly 50 times this year, officials are now referring complaints to regulators conducting a wider investigation into the company’s business practices. Read more »
More Carrier IQ: Nokia, Google, Verizon Say No Dice, Sprint, AT&T Say Yes
Several days into the Carrier IQ story — which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool — an… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Widens Its Kindle Footprint With €99 Device On Sale In Spain, Italy
It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today… Read more at paidContent »
Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab The All-Clear But Is It Too Late?
A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimous… Read more at paidContent »
What Europe’s top venture capitalists really think
Some of Europe’s leading investors gathered in Italy last week to discuss the problems and opportunities faced by startups across the continent. But what did they actually think? And what does it mean? Read more »
British government bets big on open data for growth
The British government is gambling on the idea that greater access to public data will encourage economic growth — and resurrecting a plan it had previously killed to build a world-leading open data research center. Read more »
Crunch Time For Apple's Rivals: iPhone Sales In UK Grew Again In October
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) acolytes will probably be saying “told you so” when they hear of this: sales of the iPhone, which had been in decline in… Read more at paidContent »
IPCom Threatens Injunction On HTC In Germany, But HTC Brushes It Off
The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement… Read more at paidContent »
Power To The People: ISPs, Media, Users Face Off In EU Legal Triple-Whammy
Consumers in Europe may be feeling the smarting bite of the economic winter settling in around us, but when it comes to internet and mobile… Read more at paidContent »
RIM, Apple, Microsoft All Taking A Swipe At NFC Mobile Payment Technology
As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 11-23-11
» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens to Cut 17,000 Jobs (WSJ; Press release)
» James Murdoch quits the boards of Sun and Times… Read more at paidContent »
To Buy Or Not To Buy: Nokia Struggles To Manage Lumia 800 Sales Message
So much hope has been pinned on Nokia’s comeback strategy — in which it has pivoted in the space of less than a year to develop a new line… Read more at paidContent »
France Wants To Tax ISPs To Fund Music, Add Streaming To Three-Strikes Law
Away from the Eurozone crisis, France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy has come up with one way to raise more funds in his country for one strugg… Read more at paidContent »
Three Cries Foul To EU Regulators Over British Mobile Commerce JV
We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Adversary Zuora Raises $36 Million For Subscription Services
Big funding round for the digital content subscription and billing specialist Zuora: the company has raised $36 million in a Series D round… Read more at paidContent »
Miramax Is The Latest To Ink A Deal With Netflix For UK Launch
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video comp… Read more at paidContent »
Orange Will Bring Three New, Cheap 'Facebook Phones' To Europe And Africa
Remember the “Facebook phones” launched by HTC and INQ earlier this year that gave users a hotlink to the social network and integrated the… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more at paidContent »
