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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
Feb 6, 2012 11:55 AM
Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country’s largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU), said, as it reported record quarterly revenue to its Nasdaq investors.
Posted In: Advertising, Money, Earnings, Countries, Asia, China
Feb 6, 2012 9:45 AM
When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in terms of internet access, you would think that mobile internet usage would directly follow from these facts. In reality, it seems that it still lagging behind:…
Posted In: Advertising, Mobile, Companies, Apple, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, Countries, Europe, UK, Asia, India, China, statcounter
Feb 2, 2012 9:25 AM
Hoping to tap into India’s rapidly growing e-commerce market, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching Junglee.com in the country today.
Posted In: E-Commerce, Companies, Amazon, Countries, Asia, India, flipkart, junglee
Feb 1, 2012 12:30 PM
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung is taking a note from Apple is in how it debuts its big products. The company today announced that it would not be launching its next big…
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Events, Mobile World Congress, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung, Countries, Asia, Korea, Europe, galaxy s ii, galaxy s iii, samsung galaxy
Feb 1, 2012 6:13 AM
Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China Telecom, says that it will start to sell the iPhone 4S by the end of this month or early March.
Posted In: Mobile, Technologies / Formats, 3G, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Nokia, Samsung, Sprint, Verizon, Countries, Asia, China, china mobile, china telecom, china unicom
Feb 1, 2012 5:24 AM
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.
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Companies, Disney, Disney Mobile, DoCoMo, Google, Android, Countries, Asia, Japan, forked android
Jan 31, 2012 8:00 AM
The ongoing, back-and-forth legal fight that is the Apple/Samsung patent dispute today took on a new dimension in one of its key battlegrounds, when the European Commission launched an antitrust inquiry into Samsung’s technology licensing practices.
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Patents, Regulatory, EC, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Samsung, Countries, Asia, Japan, Korea, Europe, Germany, galaxy tab, galaxy tab 10.1n
Jan 26, 2012 6:14 AM
Nokia’s Q4 earnings, released on Thursday, make for some challenging reading for even the most hopeful of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) watchers. The handset maker confirmed analyst estimates that it has sold over a million Lumia Windows Phone handsets - but that didn’t stop a horrible 31 percent slide in its…
Posted In: Money, Earnings, Technologies / Formats, 3G, 4G, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, Countries, Europe, UK, Latin America, Asia, China, lumia
Jan 24, 2012 8:29 AM
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), as it winds up as a troubled joint venture to become fully part of Sony, is spinning out some talent in the process: it’s understood that Anderson Teixeira, formerly an executive that had run different regional operations for the JV, is now Apple’s first…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, LinkedIn, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Countries, Asia, China, Latin America, Europe
Jan 23, 2012 10:22 AM
Monday marks China’s new year. The dragon, whose year it is this year, is the only mythical creature in the calendar but, as Europe’s digital commissioner Neelie Kroes writes, also “is the innovative entrepreneur, intensely powerful yet flexible, and the bringer of great fortune”.
Jan 20, 2012 12:37 PM
The reverb from Kevin Delaney’s departure from the Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media Group just hit DC: WSJ alum Raju Narisetti is headed back to the Journal, swapping his role as managing editor of the Washington Post responsible for digital for managing editor of The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ:…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Mobile, Money, Companies, Hindustan Times Media, Mint, News Corp., Dow Jones, Washington Post, Countries, Asia, India
Jan 19, 2012 10:02 AM
More woe for beleagured mobile services company Motricity: the company today announced that it is restructuring operations, pulling back from investments in Asia and focusing on growth in North America in areas like mobile advertising and enterprise services.
Posted In: Advertising, Legal, Marketing, Mobile, Countries, Asia, motricity
Jan 19, 2012 4:48 AM
The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India.
Jan 18, 2012 5:11 AM
Another day, and another big digital investment from the world’s largest advertising firm. WPP subsidiary Ogilvy has taken a 33.3 percent stake in DTDigital, a digital marketing agency based in Melbourne, Australia. The move is not just another signal of the firm’s growing base of interactive holdings, but one more…
Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, WPP, Countries, Asia, China, cic, dtdigital
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
Jan 12, 2012 5:42 AM
Unlike its local rival Samsung, the Korean handset maker LG (SEO: 066570) has lately had more of a mixed bag when it’s come to Android devices and its mobile growth. Now it’s looking for Mr Right: a partner to help it grow and remain competitive in an ever-crowded market.
Posted In: Mobile, Events, CES, Companies, Apple, Facebook, Google, Android, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Countries, Asia, Korea
Jan 11, 2012 8:45 AM
Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS) Home Entertainment to license 250 films.
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Countries, Asia, China
Jan 11, 2012 6:37 AM
Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s ruling Communist Party, has filed to float its People’s Daily Online website in Shanghai to raise 527 million yuan ($83.4 million).
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, IPO, Countries, Asia, China
Jan 10, 2012 7:04 AM
It is a busy week for digital media news in the Far East, ahead of the Chinese New Year on January 23. Notably, more new e-book services are coming, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is sued for assisting e-book piracy and the door is open to foreign investment in digital music…
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Music, Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, e-readers, Countries, Asia, China, Latin America
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