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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
Jan 16, 2012 5:27 AM
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta Monday.
Posted In: Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia
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
Dec 29, 2011 10:01 AM
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more ways than ever before to watch TV content whenever and however we want. But despite the growth of services like Hulu, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Legal, Regulatory, Ofcom, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, Video, Companies, BBC, Google, YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Countries, Europe, UK, Russia, Asia, India, oliver and ohlbaum
Dec 26, 2011 1:12 PM
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, and copyright, is expanding its line up, adding two new sports channels for NCAA Basketball and NCAA Football.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Sports, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Companies, CBS, CNET, Disney, ESPN, Google, Android, Countries, Europe, UK, Russia, alki david, filmon
Dec 19, 2011 6:37 AM
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, AOL, Apple, HP, Motorola, News Corp., Time Warner, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia, kingdom holdings, prince alalweed, prince alwaleed bin talal bin abdulaziz alsaud
Dec 9, 2011 8:31 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone devices, the cheaper Lumia 710, with the first devices going to the company’s stronghold in developing markets—Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia—within the next…
Posted In: Mobile, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, HTC, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile, Countries, Europe, Russia, Asia, India, lumia
Dec 6, 2011 7:24 AM
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ubiquity among the growing number of smartphone users in the country: the search giant is reportedly planning to launch search apps for Apple’s iOS devices by…
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Apps, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, 3G, E-Mail, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Portals, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Russia, Asia, China, bric, digital sky technologies, mail.ru, yandex
Nov 28, 2011 6:07 AM
Taking a page from its search counterparts in the East and West like Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Russia’s Yandex has scooped up a mobile software company, SPB Software, to grow its mobile offerings. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Search, Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Russia, spb software, yandex
Oct 28, 2011 9:30 AM
Russia’s leading search engine’s Q3 profit almost doubled to 1.7 billion rubles ($56.9 million) as advertising sales went from strength to strength and it began international expansion in the fast-growing Turkish market.
Posted In: Advertising, Money, Earnings, Companies, Google, Countries, Europe, Russia
Oct 25, 2011 4:11 AM
Russian portal and social network operator Mail.ru Group’s half-year growth continued in to Q3, during which revenue was 59.1 percent higher than the previous year at $124.9 million.
Oct 17, 2011 6:13 AM
Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inking a deal with Samsung to preload access to Yandex on its line of connected TVs as well as its bada-powered feature phones distributed in Russia and other…
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, TV, Mobile, Search, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, France Telecom, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, Countries, Europe, Russia, France, Asia, China, yandex
Oct 14, 2011 6:23 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) today finally got the keys to Skype, so to speak: the deal for Microsoft to buy the internet telephony giant for $8.5 billion formally closed. The deal was first announced in May but needed to pass successfully through regulatory approval in several major markets—most recently, Europe, just…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Legal, Regulatory, Mobile, Events, CES, Companies, Microsoft, Countries, Europe, Russia, Luxembourg, skype
Oct 6, 2011 3:00 AM
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…
Posted In: Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, BBC, Channel 4, Comcast, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, xBox, NBC Universal, NBC, Verizon, Countries, Europe, UK, Sweden, Spain, Russia, Norway, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Canada, Asia, Japan, xbox live
Oct 5, 2011 12:43 PM
Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s sites, and also how third parties could play a big role in how Facebook goes mobile in the future. Gemalto, a company that makes SIM cards for…
Posted In: Apps, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, SMS, Companies, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Countries, Asia, China, Latin America, Europe, Russia, gemalto
Oct 4, 2011 9:53 AM
Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies and U.S.-based VC firm Silver Lake are preparing a joint offer to buy Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), according to reports.
Posted In: E-Commerce, Search, Companies, Facebook, Microsoft, Spotify, Yahoo, Zynga, Countries, Asia, China, Japan, Europe, Russia, alibaba, digital sky technologies, dst, jack ma, silver lake
Sep 9, 2011 7:17 AM
Waterstones—the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut—is taking a tip from its U.S. counterpart Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and launching its own e-reading device. The news, to be revealed by the company’s MD James Daunt in a radio interview today, raises all sorts…
Posted In: E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Apple, iPad, HMV, Sony, Countries, Europe, UK, Russia, james daunt, waterstone's
Aug 31, 2011 6:00 AM
Portal operator Mail.ru’s half-year profit has more than doubled to $85.5 million, underlining it as one of the most successful in the high-growth Russian market.
Aug 26, 2011 8:04 AM
Russia’s leading search engine is making a foray in the nascent market segment of socially-organised news delivery, by buying The Tweeted Times.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia
Aug 26, 2011 7:42 AM
Russian portal Rambler and magazine publisher Afisha, which were last year merged by their owner, want to buy the technology news site Compulenta, Roem reports.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Countries, Europe, Russia
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