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Feb 8, 2012 3:24 AM
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today announced that it would be transferring smartphone assembly from factories in Hungary, Finland and Mexico, and putting the operation in Asia.
Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Money, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, HTC, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Russia, Finland, Asia, India, China, foxconn
Jan 16, 2012 5:27 AM
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta Monday.
Posted In: Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia
Jan 13, 2012 5:04 AM
We know that consumers in China love Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) products, and that Apple is famous for the lines that form outside its stores in advance of the launch of a new product. But things got a little out of hand earlier today in Beijing, as a mob of people…
Posted In: Companies, Apple, iPhone, Countries, Europe, Russia, Asia, China
Dec 26, 2011 1:12 PM
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, and copyright, is expanding its line up, adding two new sports channels for NCAA Basketball and NCAA Football.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Sports, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Companies, CBS, CNET, Disney, ESPN, Google, Android, Countries, Europe, UK, Russia, alki david, filmon
Dec 19, 2011 6:37 AM
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, AOL, Apple, HP, Motorola, News Corp., Time Warner, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia, kingdom holdings, prince alalweed, prince alwaleed bin talal bin abdulaziz alsaud
Dec 14, 2011 11:45 AM
Confirming earlier reports, T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to sell a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows Phone in the U.S.—a key market for the beleaguered handset maker. Rather than splashing into the U.S. with a high-end, expensive product, Nokia is taking the more humble route and launching with the…
Posted In: Mobile, Technologies / Formats, 4G, Companies, AT&T, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, T-Mobile, Verizon, Countries, Europe, Russia, Asia, India, lumia
Dec 9, 2011 8:31 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone devices, the cheaper Lumia 710, with the first devices going to the company’s stronghold in developing markets—Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia—within the next…
Posted In: Mobile, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, HTC, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile, Countries, Europe, Russia, Asia, India, lumia
Dec 8, 2011 6:39 AM
Nokia’s luxury device brand Vertu—the epitome of conspicuous consumption with gold-and-diamond handsets priced in the six figures—has been conspicuously absent from the company’s many strategic announcements over the last year, which have seen the company drop Symbian for Microsoft’s Windows Phone, make a u-turn on MeeGo, re-assess its global device…
Posted In: Mobile, Companies, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Countries, Europe, Russia, Asia, vertu
Dec 6, 2011 7:24 AM
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ubiquity among the growing number of smartphone users in the country: the search giant is reportedly planning to launch search apps for Apple’s iOS devices by…
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Apps, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, 3G, E-Mail, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Portals, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Russia, Asia, China, bric, digital sky technologies, mail.ru, yandex
Nov 28, 2011 6:07 AM
Taking a page from its search counterparts in the East and West like Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Russia’s Yandex has scooped up a mobile software company, SPB Software, to grow its mobile offerings. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Search, Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Russia, spb software, yandex
Oct 17, 2011 6:13 AM
Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other…
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, TV, Mobile, Search, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, France Telecom, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, Countries, Europe, Russia, France, Asia, China, yandex
Oct 14, 2011 6:23 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) today finally got the keys to Skype, so to speak: the deal for Microsoft to buy the internet telephony giant for $8.5 billion formally closed. The deal was first announced in May but needed to pass successfully through regulatory approval in several major markets—most recently, Europe, just…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Legal, Regulatory, Mobile, Events, CES, Companies, Microsoft, Countries, Europe, Russia, Luxembourg, skype
Oct 5, 2011 12:43 PM
Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s sites, and also how third parties could play a big role in how Facebook goes mobile in the future. Gemalto, a company that makes SIM cards for…
Posted In: Apps, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, SMS, Companies, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Countries, Asia, China, Latin America, Europe, Russia, gemalto
Sep 9, 2011 7:17 AM
Waterstones—the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut—is taking a tip from its U.S. counterpart Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and launching its own e-reading device. The news, to be revealed by the company’s MD James Daunt in a radio interview today, raises all sorts…
Posted In: E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Apple, iPad, HMV, Sony, Countries, Europe, UK, Russia, james daunt, waterstone's
Aug 25, 2011 8:57 AM
Samsung has so far fended off attempts by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to keep it from selling Galaxy devices in Europe—but now it has another foe slamming its Galaxy brand, this time in Russia.
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Mobile, Companies, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Russia, samsung galaxy
Jun 30, 2011 5:47 AM
The streamlining at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continues apace. Today it was announced that the Finnish company has sold its North American messaging business to Synchronica, a specialist in that field, for $25 million in cash. The deal includes operator-branded instant messaging and email services for 10 operators in the market—including…
Posted In: Legal, Patents, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Companies, AT&T, Nokia, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Countries, Europe, Russia, Canada, Asia, India, synchronica
Jun 2, 2011 9:47 AM
It’s going to be a big hill to climb, but HP’s put on its walking boots and is getting on with it. Today, the company formally started to accept apps for its forthcoming TouchPad, and its relatively late arrival to the tablet scene means that it’s gotten a jump start…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Palm, Countries, Europe, Russia, leo apotheker, touchpad, webos
May 31, 2011 3:40 PM
Could Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) have learned a lesson from Google’s mobile experiences when making its own tablet plans? Acer’s CEO seems to think so, yet he’s not necessarily on board with Microsoft’s tactic of enforcing tight controls on partners looking for another mobile operating system.
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Countries, Europe, Russia, acer, j.t. wang, windows 8, windows phone 7
May 26, 2011 6:01 PM
Next week Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will become the last of the four companies currently gunning for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the tablet market to articulate a modern tablet software strategy, according to a report. The demonstrations will come next week at the D9 and Computex conferences, where Microsoft will show…
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Countries, Europe, Russia, windows 8
May 25, 2011 1:54 PM
Google’s tablet software has yet to really make a dent in the market, but Apple’s iPad is attracting more and more users every day. In some ways, that’s not really a problem for Google: it controls the largest mobile advertising network, and now has new ad units designed specifically for…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iTunes, Google, Countries, Europe, Russia, admob
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