Ingrid Lunden
May 16, 2011 5:39 AM
We reported last week that this would happen, and frankly you could have guessed as much, but now it’s been made official: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today outlined how it planned to slowly drop its Ovi mobile content brand, in favor of Nokia branding, in the lead-up to a new set…
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Ingrid Lunden
May 12, 2011 7:18 AM
Operators have been relatively late to the app game, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to make up for lost time by doing anything and everything they can to make a splash in the apps market. They have tried to get in on the app store craze on their…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 23, 2010 9:53 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is looking to give its Ovi Store a leg-up, and AT&T (NYSE: T) is happy to oblige. The pair has teamed to offer $10 million in cash and prizes for a new developer contest. The amount on offer through the Calling All innovators contest is actually $4…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 14, 2010 11:19 AM
Ovi Store has managed a reasonably stuttering start. The app store doesn’t even ship on some versions of the flagship new N8 smartphone and must first be downloaded and installed, one Nokia (NYSE: NOK) representative told me at Nokia World. Nokia’s media VP George Lindaros acknowledged at Nokia World: “It’s…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 14, 2010 7:54 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is bringing in-app purchasing and advertising to apps downloaded from its Ovi Store, as the handset maker tries to increase revenue to developers and itself from the apps craze.
It also says it will itself absorb the cost developers usually incur for “signing” submitted apps.
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Robert Andrews
Sep 2, 2010 9:15 AM
Most media owners are strong believers in a strategy of “any-and-every-platform” ubiquity.
But, for this season’s mobile strategy, the makers of the UK’s popular X Factor TV show are launching an “exclusive” app only on Nokia’s Ovi store.
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Robert Andrews
Aug 16, 2010 1:11 PM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is getting ready to re-brand its unlimited-free-music service Comes With Music as part of its Ovi services suite, after failing to make much of a success of it in its two years.
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 3, 2010 11:56 AM
Nokia’s defensive move to make its Ovi maps and navigation free is already seeing strong customer response. Since launching Jan. 21, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today that people have downloaded the service 1.4 million times, and the one million mark was hit in just a week. The rate of downloads…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 16, 2009 5:47 AM
We knew that Mobile World Congress would have a lot of news about application stores, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) at least upheld its end of the bargain, by unveiling its Ovi Store today, which goes much further than any application store on the market. In addition, to selling mobile applications,…
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