James Quintana Pearce
Mar 24, 2009 4:19 PM
Italian mobile content vendor Buongiorno has released its guidelines for 2009, indicating that it plans to further consolidate iTouch, which it bought last year and was largely responsible for an 80 percent increase in revenue. In the first two months of 2009 EBITDA for Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) was “substantially in…
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Tricia Duryee
Oct 22, 2008 3:17 PM
Earlier this month Neomobile, an Italian mobile entertainment company, raised $13.5 million and today it confirms plans to buy Spain’s Arena Mobile, a company focused on mobile content. Neomobile sells content directly to consumers, whereas Arena Mobile, founded in 2001, works on the business level, partnering with more than 150…
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Tricia Duryee
Oct 10, 2008 12:11 PM
Neomobile, an Italian mobile entertainment company, has raised $13.5 million (10 million euros) from the Private Equity arm of Monte Paschi Siena, which will recieve a 16 percent stake in the company. The capital will be used for Neomobile’s growth strategy and to help the company to fund international expansion.…
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Dianne See Morrison
Jul 21, 2008 7:12 AM
Another story of mobile broadband sticker shock. Italy’s competition authority AGCM is looking into complaints that customers of 3, the Hutchison Whampoa-owned mobile network, was grossly overcharging for mobile web services. Reuters reports that the AGCM has “ordered” 3 to suspend the invoices of some customers, whose bills for the…
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Dianne See Morrison
May 6, 2008 10:34 AM
After losing out to its rival O2 last year, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has struck a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in ten countries, reports Reuters. Those countries include Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey, according to the…
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James Quintana Pearce
Apr 21, 2008 12:33 PM
The latest iPhone rumor has been sparked by an article in Italian paper La Repubblica, which claims that the 3G UMTS iPhone will hit Italy in the summer of this year. That’s nothing new, but the article goes on to claim that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is changing its business model…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 17, 2008 5:22 PM
Buongiorno, the Italy-headquartered mobile content biggie, has reported its Q407 earnings, and has profits of Euro 46 million, up about 9 percent from Q406; revenues remained the same compared to the year-ago quarter. Pro-forma revenues including iTouch for Q4 2007 amounted to Euro 83.8 million and EBITDA to Euro 12.7…
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Dianne See Morrison
Dec 14, 2007 9:38 AM
Italian state broadcaster Rai, mobile operator 3 Italia and Alcatel-Lucent are launching the first mobile TV trial using the DVB-SH standard in Turin, Italy this month, reports Reuters. The companies said that it would run a technical trial first, starting in December, and would incorporate consumers later next year. The…
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