Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, delays on new products, and the departure of its co-CEOs/founders in the last month after several bad quarters. But at a developers’ conference that kicked off today…

Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing massive growth in mobile, but it still hasn’t tried out advertising, its most effective route to revenues, on this platform. That’s not to say it won’t. But…

Two European companies are this week taking venture capital in the games space…

Disney (NYSE: DIS) Mobile, the short-lived U.S. MVNO that found a new lease of life in Japan through a Softbank JV in 2008, has now launched two new Android handsets in partnership with NTT Docomo, the country’s biggest carrier.

Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure, the internet company is pulling support for 10 of its less-popular mobile apps.

Early last week, a six-month promotion period, during which U.S. users were exempted from Spotify’s five-plays-per-song, 10-hours-per-month limits, was due to end for the first of the service’s American adopters, if reports were to be believed. But that apparently hasn’t yet happened.

Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success.

Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.

Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings came in about where Wall Street had expected, but the decline of its Windows business continued during a holiday quarter when it seems pretty clear other gadgets dominated shopping lists.

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q410	Net Inc. vs Q410
Microsoft	Release		5%	Flat

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Now that it’s a public company, Zynga can start throwing more cash around. The online gaming company has recently acquired four small mobile gaming companies, according to a report, as it tries to build a line of business that isn’t completely dependent on Facebook.

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 from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will…

Coliloquy, a Palo Alto-based publisher focusing on interactive fiction for adults, launches its first four serial titles today on Kindle. The books are active content apps, rather than static e-book files—allowing for multiple story lines, personalized content, in-book reader/author engagement and the delivery of prompts and extras. The company’s founders…

Games rank as the most popular form of mobile content today—68 percent of tablet and smartphone app users who downloaded an app in the past 30 days chose a game for their device, according to Nielsen. And ZeptoLab’s Cut The Rope—a game of physics, boxed spaces and candy—has been one…

Our acclaimed one-day event, paidContent 2012, returns to The TimesCenter in New York City on March 1. Now in its third year, paidContent 2012 is where we look at the most pressing issues and opportunities in digital media—what’s happening now, what’s to come, and what it all means at the…

YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) didn’t do a whole lot with a precious hour of airtime at CES 2012 on Thursday, reminding us all that video delivered over the web is poised to get even bigger than it already is yet offering very little about why YouTube is the place where Web…

Here’s a look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES: »  Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Could Sell 37 Million Windows Phones This Year: The Lumia 900 is probably the one product launched at CES that made everyone take notice, and financial analysts are starting to…

The tablet market is still in its relative infancy and has been largely dominated up to now—both in sales and basic concept—by the iPad from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). But that could be changing in the year ahead, and those making tablets are thinking about what might be the best form…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) used its hallmark spot on the CES 2012 schedule to prove just how pointless it is to put on a million-dollar keynote address in the modern media era when you have nothing to say, reiterating its performance over 2011, talking up Windows 8, and hiring Ryan Seacrest…

Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name on to some of the more buzzy trends in TV this year: gesture-controlled television, apps, 3D and cloud-based content. In a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show…