Spotify’s early traction in its native Sweden gives the world a glimpse at what a market looks like when strong music subscription services flourish, converting listeners from ownership to access.

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…

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…

Big U.S. publishers are now reporting that e-books now make up between 15 and 20 percent of their sales—a dramatic and quick rise since 2010. But in the rest of the world, it’s a very different story. In the UK, e-books make up about six percent of sales, but that’s…

Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savvy consumers in the world, is now facing a delay well into 2012 before its national operators can even begin to consider how they would deploy…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) has declined to comment on reports that it is considering a bid to buy out Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) from its Sony Ericsson handset joint venture as the company’s stock dropped in trading today.

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,…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has all but cornered the market for tablets in the U.S., say researchers at Forrester, who predict that its iPad will take 80 percent of all tablet sales this year in North America. But that’s not entirely the case in Europe, it seems.

Before it has even hit the market, the N9 from Nokia (NYSE: NOK), its first Meego-based device, has caused almost as much excitement as it has frustration—excitement for all the promise that Nokia seems finally to have delivered on, and frustration for executing on it just as it prepares to…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —Foursquare: The check-in app has signed a deal with American Express to offer special deals to cardholders, but as some have highlighted, it won’t be making any money from the partnership for now.

LTE is far from being a widely available technology, but operators in some countries—such as the U.S., Russia and Sweden—have been quicker off the mark to offer it than others. Today, the UK could have seen its first bid to join that group, as BT (NYSE: BT) and Everything Everywhere…

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.

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.

Swedish publisher Bonnier, which introduced its Mag+ concept for iPad magazines last year, has now spun the idea out in to separate business.

Looks like another small acquisition to continue the consolidation among mobile internet solutions providers: the Swedish mobile services provider Teleca has bought UK-based SurfKitchen to capitalise on what it says is a growing opportunity in mobile-operator-run app stores. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

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…

That was quick: the WikiLeaks app on Apple’s App Store, published only on December 17, was early today removed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The developer, Igor Barinov, confirmed as much in a tweet.

A bad day for staff at Swedish mobile handset maker and networks company Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), which is making 950 staff redundant in Sweden—about five percent of its domestic workforce—as part of an additional round of cuts on top of its on-going cost reduction scheme. The company still aims to…

*Sony Ericsson* is relocating its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta as part of a global consolidation that will cut about 2,000 jobs, reports AP. Atlanta was chosen in part because of its proximity to AT&T (NYSE: T), one of the company’s largest U.S. customers, and because it’s…