Ingrid Lunden
Nov 24, 2011 7:05 PM
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 usage, there is some small relief coming: a series of legal actions point to host of new rights for private individuals. UK regulator Ofcom has…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 22, 2011 9:24 AM
New forecasts out today for the mobile music market from Juniper Research: it will bring in revenues of $5.5 billion by 2015, compared to $3.1 billion last year. What’s interesting is that mobile music might just turn out to be more competitive than the digital market overall. While digital music…
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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
Dec 23, 2010 12:14 PM
The internet telephony service Skype got a good deal out of the net neutrality vote earlier this week, with the FCC deciding that Skype and other voice services like it could not be banned or throttled on broadband networks. But services in the past 24 hours seem to show that…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 16, 2009 4:33 PM
(with David Kaplan) Just as eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is ready to sell off the 65 percent of Skype, the founders of the virtual telephone company are suing the auction site for violating their license agreements and infringing on their copyright. According to the WSJ, Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 31, 2009 1:00 PM
eBay insisted as recently as last week that the “separation” of Skype remains on track—and behind the scenes it’s trying to find a way around litigation that could put the deal in jeopardy. eBay has been mired in litigation with Joltid, a company started by Skype’s founders that licenses the…
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