Ingrid Lunden
Nov 4, 2011 8:05 AM
A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK’s main music trade body, the BPI, has today teamed up others in the creative industries to request BT (NYSE: BT), the UK’s leading broadband provider, to…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 3, 2011 5:19 PM
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2014. Today, announcements from streamed entertainment provider Aspiro and the music download service 7digital point—respectively announcing a new white-label distribution deal and…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 31, 2011 5:44 PM
Many consumers were never completely sure of the correct way to pronounce it, and it has had mixed success as a household name synonymous with cloud-based entertainment, so it comes as not too much of a surprise to hear that Sony (NYSE: SNE) has now dropped the Qriocity brand. Instead,…
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Ingrid Lunden
Apr 27, 2011 5:01 AM
Two big steps for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today in its ongoing strategic shift: the company announced it would transfer all Symbian software operations to Accenture, including the 3,000 people that work in the division. It also said that it would begin a massive wave of layoffs that will total 4,000…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 30, 2011 5:34 AM
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google’s Android in-app payments service gets some early users—and maybe some confusion; Gartner says tablets drive up worldwide IT spend; and Hutchison’s Three posts a profit.
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 22, 2011 9:22 AM
Despite the big stories about the iPad 2 selling out in the U.S., and the question marks over how events in Japan might affect consumer electronics supplies, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is going ahead with its scheduled launch of the iPad 2 outside the U.S.
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2011 8:31 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music—shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service—but it is not giving up on digital entertainment altogether. The Swedish VOD and streaming site Voddler has announced that it has picked up an additional $8 million in funding, with this round led by…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 19, 2010 6:22 PM
Aspiro, the hosted and white-label mobile TV and music provider, today announced that it has sold its remaining mobile entertainment business in Finland to Exsol Oy, for €100,000 ($137,000; £86,000), a holding company set up by games/ringtone distributor Buumi International. This follows a sale of entertainment assets in Norway, Sweden…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 23, 2010 7:43 AM
Is Danish newspaper Information taking the honour of being first to unveil an app for Apple’s forthcoming saviour-of-media tablet? Your eyes deceive you, sadly. What looks like an Information.dk iPad application was actually the front page of yesterday’s printed edition, whose cover story, was devoted to examining which digital paths…
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