Ingrid Lunden
Nov 8, 2011 10:47 AM
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago, and more recently moving into iPad publishing with Project magazine. Today comes news of his latest foray into the wireless world: an investment in the mobile payments startup…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 18, 2011 7:06 AM
All change in the UK mobile world: Tom Alexander, the CEO of Everything Everywhere—the mobile operator JV between France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile—has resigned and is getting replaced by Olaf Swantee, a longtime France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) operative.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 17, 2010 8:48 AM
More consolidation among mobile content players: LiveWire Mobile, a U.S.-based company that sells music and related content like ringback tones, has bought Fonestarz, a UK-based concern that specialises in wallpapers, ringtones and phone enhancements that it sells through its digital storefront, in an all-cash deal. Other financial terms were not…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 10, 2010 5:46 AM
Virgin Media has yet to go commercial on an all-you-can-eat music service it announced way back in June 2009, but it is still forging ahead with a separate strategy to sell music via mobile. Monday will see the launch of a new free app, which the quad-play provider created with…
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Robert Andrews
Dec 1, 2008 2:54 AM
OneSearch, one product Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) keeps highlighting despite through its own troubled times, has got another deal. The web-based version of the mobile search app will power search for Virgin Media’s new mobile portal in the UK from December 8. OneSearch already this year inked similar partnerships with T-Mobile,…
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Nikhil Pahwa
Mar 2, 2008 11:42 PM
Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) has launched its mobile service in one of the biggest and most competitive mobile markets in the world: India. It has announced a ‘brand franchise’ agreement with Tata Teleservices in India…Virgin-TTSL joint venture is called Virgin Mobile India, but Virgin’s investment or share were not disclosed.…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 23, 2007 3:25 AM
It didn’t take long for Orange to rush out a press release after the news leaked out yesterday that it wanted to replace its UK CEO Bernard Ghillebaert. Tom Alexander, the founder of *Virgin Mobile* in the UK, will take the helm at Orange UK in December. Alexander will be…
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