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News Corp: Earnings Surge But Scandal Bill Hits $104 Million

Feb 8, 2012 5:48 PM

News Corp surpassed analyst expectations in quarterly earnings announced today, but the numbers reflected two wildly divergent trends.

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Posted In: Legal, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, Earnings, Companies, News Corp., hacking scandal, rio

Nokia’s Mexico, Hungary, Finland Phone Assembly Goes To Asia; 4,000 Jobs Go

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.

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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

Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’

Feb 6, 2012 6:00 AM

It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is that Facebook will do first in the world of mobile marketing, and it could be coming online “within weeks.”

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Legal, Privacy, Marketing, Mobile, Money, Companies, Facebook

Google Fined In France For Offering Free Maps

Feb 3, 2012 9:41 AM

The French are kicking Google (NSDQ: GOOG) again. This time, in a strange ruling, Paris’ commercial court has found the company is anti-competitive because it offers Google Maps for free to businesses.

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Posted In: Legal, Companies, Google, Countries, Europe, France

Europe Wants Google To Freeze Its New Privacy Policy

Feb 3, 2012 7:06 AM

An influential European privacy body has urged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to “pause” its new privacy policy due to be implemented in March. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party wrote a letter to Larry Page…

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Posted In: Legal, Privacy, Regulatory, EC, Companies, Google

Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted

Feb 3, 2012 5:16 AM

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Germany, one involving IP licensing on older iPhone models (not the 4S) and one involving iCloud. However, as the day progressed, an injunction on…

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Posted In: Legal, Patents, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Germany

A Second News International Paper Faces Questions In Hacking Investigation

Feb 2, 2012 4:56 PM

The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times,  police correspondence sent to campaigning MP Tom Watson shows. And its editor has been recalled to discuss it at the government’s hearings on media ethics.

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Posted In: Legal, Privacy, Companies, News Corp., News International

Videoplaza Raises $12 Million For Its Multiscreen Video Ad Platform

Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM

The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.

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Posted In: Advertising, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Five, HTC, Hulu, Qualcomm, Countries, Europe, France, creandum, innovacom venture capital, northzone ventures, qualcomm ventures, videoplaza

Myriad Eyes Synchronica, Says Messaging Company Can’t Pay Its Nokia Debt

Jan 31, 2012 6:30 PM

Some fallout from the various asset offloads we have seen from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the last year: Synchronica, which bought Nokia’s messaging business for $25 million in June 2011, has itself become a takeover target—apparently because it will not be able to make payments on money still owed to…

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Posted In: Legal, Patents, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Companies, Nokia, Countries, Europe, UK, myriad group, synchronica

Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission

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.

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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

Google, Facebook, Twitter Execs Grilled By UK MPs On Privacy

Jan 30, 2012 11:05 AM

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives got a rough ride from a House Of Commons committee on Monday, when they declined to systemically filter law-breaking web pages from search results.

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Posted In: Legal, Privacy, Companies, Facebook, Google, Twitter

Twitter Faces Censorship Backlash

Jan 27, 2012 7:46 AM

The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries.

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Posted In: Legal, Privacy, Companies, Twitter

Entertainment Lobby Claims Google, Bing Send Users To Illegal Music Files

Jan 26, 2012 12:27 PM

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and other search engines “overwhelmingly” direct music fans to illegal copies of copyrighted tracks online, a coalition of entertainment industry groups has told the government.

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Legal, Copyright, Piracy, Companies, Google, Android, Microsoft, Bing, mpa

Update 2: Privacy Alert: O2 Fixes Hole That Shared Users’ Phone Numbers

Jan 25, 2012 10:36 AM

Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile phone users’ telephone numbers to websites they visited via O2’s mobile data network.

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Posted In: Advertising, Legal, Privacy, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Facebook, Google, Android, Microsoft, O2, T-Mobile, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK

Jon Miller, News Corp.: It’s All About Video For Us Right Now

Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM

Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Entertainment, Games, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, xBox, News Corp., Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Fox, MySpace, Countries, Europe, Germany, jon miller

Orange To Provide Wikipedia Free In Middle East And Africa

Jan 24, 2012 4:38 AM

Orange has struck a deal with Wikipedia to make its digital encyclopaedia available free of data charges to millions of mobile phone users across the Middle East and Africa.

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Posted In: Legal, Mobile, Companies, France Telecom, Orange, Countries, Middle East / Persian Gulf

The Digital Piracy Problem Is Riddled With Hypocrisy

Jan 23, 2012 12:57 PM

In the summer of 2009, I found myself invited to a small party in an old bourgeois apartment with breathtaking views of the Champ-de-Mars and Eiffel Tower. The gathering was meant to be an informal discussion among media people about Nicolas Sarkozy’s push for the HADOPI anti-piracy bill. The risk…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Legal, Piracy, Media & Publishing, TV, Technologies / Formats, Broadband

Nokia Lumia’s TV Deal Broke UK Advertising Rules

Jan 23, 2012 5:31 AM

One of the biggest components in Nokia’s expensive campaign for its latest flagship handset broke UK media rules by mixing its sponsorships with TV content.

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Posted In: Advertising, Legal, Regulatory, Ofcom, Mobile, Companies, Nokia

Europe Says It Won’t Adopt ‘Bad’ Digital Policy Like SOPA

Jan 20, 2012 9:06 AM

Don’t expect the European Commission to introduce its own version of America’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

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Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Piracy, Regulatory, EC

SOPA Blackout, Anonymous-Style: FBI, DOJ Sites Downed In Megaupload Protest

Jan 19, 2012 5:52 PM

A day after the SOPA protest on the web, the hacker group Anonymous has taken the blackout theme to a whole new level: in retaliation for the closure of the Megaupload file-sharing site, and for its own SOPA protest, the group has started to systematically take down a number of…

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Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Piracy, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, France, anonymous, anonymousirc

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