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…

After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boost the on-demand programming available through Xbox Live. It took a shift in strategy to make room for broadcasters like the BBC, the trend toward authentication to bring on…

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,…

Today’s deadline day. Member states of the European Union are all supposed to have plans in place to change their laws so that most kinds of online data collection—including the simple placement of an electronic ‘cookie’—become ‘opt-in’ for consumers. But only two countries—Denmark and Estonia—have solid plans to create such…

Two big steps for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today in its ongoing strategic shift: the company announced it would transfer all Symbian software operations to Accenture, including the 3,000 people that work in the division. It also said that it would begin a massive wave of layoffs that will total 4,000…

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.

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…

Aspiro, the hosted and white-label mobile TV and music provider, today announced that it has sold its remaining mobile entertainment business in Finland to Exsol Oy, for €100,000 ($137,000; £86,000), a holding company set up by games/ringtone distributor Buumi International. This follows a sale of entertainment assets in Norway, Sweden…

Is Danish newspaper Information taking the honour of being first to unveil an app for Apple’s forthcoming saviour-of-media tablet? Your eyes deceive you, sadly. What looks like an Information.dk iPad application was actually the front page of yesterday’s printed edition, whose cover story, was devoted to examining which digital paths…

Could it be that one of the most ground-breaking digital music models is coming from a telecoms operator in Denmark? In 2008, TDC launched a service called Play, which offers free, unlimited tracks to its broadband and mobile customers, for no extra fee. This was a first for the music…

As its hype curve rises and grows around the world, music service Spotify is locking out eager, enterprising users from outside the six countries in which it has launched so far. The service is only supposed to be available in Sweden, the UK, France, Spain, Finland and Norway, but users…

—SunTalk: The audio extension of News International’s leading red-top The Sun, is looking to extend its reach to British tourists and expats in Spain: daily three-hour the show, presented by Sun Jon Gaunt, will be aired on Spanish FM stations Bay Radio and Spectrum at 11am. It’s part of plans…

Former MEN Media head of online editorial Sarah Hartley, who left last week after eight years, is joining GMG stablemate Guardian News & Media to work on “online developmental projects”. How-Do is repeating its earlier speculation GNM is planning a Manchester local website - a GNM spokesperson told us: “We…

Yes, we’re still in that recession. London-listed advertising giant WPP on Tuesday reported worse than expected Q109 earnings, but CEO Sir Martin Sorrell is sticking to his prediction that H209 will be better than H1 and that some recovery will take place in the advertising economy next year. “Reportable” revenues…

Viral marketing agency GoViral has raised €6.5 million (£6.02 million) in VC funding from tech investor Kennet Partners to grow its branded content distribution network. The Copenhagen-based company, which was founded in 2005 and also has offices in London, Frankfurt and Paris, claims to help its clients’ video adverts, widgets…

One of the most important file-sharing cases in recent legal history was due to get underway on Monday in Sweden, where the founders of massively popular torrent-tracking site The Pirate Bay stand accused of assisting copyright infringement. And in the spirit of sharing data, the site’s supporters are broadcasting, Twittering…

Three Danish ISPs are appealing a ruling that compels them to block access to The Pirate Bay. The ruling was made in a court last week after a long-running legal challenge from music industry body IFPI - but now TDC, Telia and Telenor plan to challenge the ruling in Denmark’s…

—ITN Source: TV footage archive ITN Source has got its hands on 70 years of broadcast material from South Asia after signing a deal with Asia News International (ANI) to license its content across all platforms. Some 5,000 of the most interesting clips, covering news, sport and India’s freedom movement,…