The Danish firm has been building a platform for consumers to review independent online retailers. Now it wants to break America. But does Trustpilot need to work hard on improving its own visibility, or just syndicate its reviews to Google?…
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Scoopshot is another UGC photo agency, but can it spot fakes?
Could a mobile app have rooted out #FakeSandy storm images that ruffled so many feathers? Scoopshot thinks it can, but others say editors must rely on human research to validate UGC photojournalism.…
Read MoreNordic news publisher Schibsted buying in to ebook service Riidr
Scandinavian newspaper publisher Schibsted is keeping up its efforts to diversify and attract user payments by investing in a regional ebook service.…
Read MoreNokia’s Lumia sales shrink; on to the next model again
Nokia sold a quarter fewer of its flagship smartphones last quarter, as retailers and carriers shied away from Lumia's current generation, leaving Nokia with €120 million in spare parts. Shifting to new Lumias with the Windows Phone 8 software has hurt any momentum Nokia had.…
Read MoreFacebook has 220 billion of your photos to put on ice
Facebook users love sharing photos, and the demands of that appetite are gargantuan. Infrastructure engineering VP Jay Parikh lifted the lid on Facebook's seven-petabytes-per-month photo upload task, during GigaOM's Structure:Europe conference.…
Read MoreSpotify for TV – could it finally be true?
A Danish report says Spotify may offer HBO TV shows in Scandinavia. We have seen that kind of speculation in the past. But there may be valid reasons why the music service could branch out.…
Read MoreNetflix chasing down Amazon’s Lovefilm to Scandinavia
Buoyed by better results than expected from its first European foray, Netflix will head north this winter - a move which means it now competes with Lovefilm in a majority of the Amazon brand's markets.…
Read MoreMobile cloud DVR app BooxTV snapped up by Finnish telco
The idea of third-party services that allow online TV recording may have proved controversial in some quarters, but now a Finnish telco is acquiring just such a thing.…
Read MoreBeyond the birds: Rovio finally ready to diversify?
Rovio may fancy itself as mobile media's Disney, but only now is it looking at follow-ups to its Mickey Mouse, Angry Birds, as it goes on talking up a future IPO.…
Read MoreSpotify rival WiMP has global ambitions, too – now it needs cash
Spotify's closest Scandinavian competitor says it must seek new investment to join its digital music peers in international expansion this year.…
Read MoreScandinavia’s hottest digital startups: payments firms
Payments are big up north. A Square competitor and an online payments facilitator are named the Nordic region's most promising digital outfits.…
Read MoreRIM, Chasing Its Own iCloud, Buys NewBay For $100 Million
Here's an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, a……
Read MoreUpdate: Google Buys Groupon Clone And Launches Wallet In Quest For Commerce
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples o……
Read MoreVoddler Picks Up Another $8 Million In Funding For VOD, Led By Nokia
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music -- shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service -- but it is not giving up on……
Read MoreAspiro Sells Remaining Mobile Entertainment Assets To Exsol
Aspiro, the hosted and white-label mobile TV and music provider, today announced that it has sold its remaining mobile entertainment busines……
Read MoreEricsson Says ‘Merry Christmas’ With 950 Jobs Cuts
A bad day for staff at Swedish mobile handset maker and networks company Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), which is making 950 staff redundant in Swede……
Read MoreSwedish Rightsholders Continue Anti-Piracy IPRED Offensive
It's traditionally been the home of illegal file-sharing in Europe, but since the introduction of strong anti-piracy laws this year Sweden h……
Read MoreScandinavia’s Schibsted Still Growing Online Publishing Profit Nicely
British newspapers can't catch a break when it comes to growing online earnings - just look at Trinity Mirror's negative digital growth in 2……
Read MoreAfter Running Aground, New Pirate Bay Acquisition Chatter Is Afloat
Global Gaming Factory X (GGF)'s much-hyped and now defunct bid to buy BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay was a ship that never sailed. But mo……
Read MoreHabbo Hotel Parent Company Sulake Lays Off 40 Staff
The company behind the popular teen-focused Habbo Hotel virtual world is to lay off 40 staff, according to tweets from affected employees an……
Read MoreSpotify Restricts Access In Some European Countries
As its hype curve rises and grows around the world, music service Spotify is locking out eager, enterprising users from outside the six coun……
Read MorePrint Round-Up: SunTalk In Spain; More Trinity Cuts; Telegraph’s Free Ad Paper; Danish Handout
-- SunTalk: The audio extension of News International's leading red-top The Sun, is looking to extend its reach to British tourists and expa……
Read MoreIndustry Moves: Rubicon’s Director Of Publishing; Discovery Nordic Chief; Nokia VP Joins Wolfson
-- Rubicon publisher: UK ad technology company the Rubicon Project has appointed Justin Thomas to the new role of director of publisher deve……
Read MoreInterview: Pirate Bay Bidders Hope To Make $40 Million A Month From Ads
So how exactly does unlikely Pirate Bay bidder Global Gaming Factory X intend to profit from the scourge of the entertainment industry, and……
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