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Feb 22, 2012 1:34 AM
Online ad spend in Russia grew 56 percent through 2011, surpassing print media to become the country’s second-largest advertising medium.
Posted In: Advertising, Research & Metrics, Metrics, Countries, Europe, Russia
Feb 21, 2012 7:55 AM
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s main business unit aims to delist from the Hong Kong stock market - but says the move is unrelated to an effort to buy Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) out of the company.
Posted In: E-Commerce, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Yahoo, Countries, Asia, China
Feb 16, 2012 7:35 PM
DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) continues to provide a useful blueprint for other U.S. media companies looking to expand into Latin America. On Thursday, the satellite TV service provider announced that it had added 590,000 subscribers in the region in the fourth quarter, a performance that drove the company’s impressive earnings report…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Satellite, Money, Earnings, Companies, Netflix, Countries, Latin America, directv
Feb 15, 2012 2:10 PM
Ozon, often called the “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) of Russia”, is looking to consolidate its lead over local rivals by buying one of the country’s largest online retailers, shoe store Sapato.ru.
Posted In: E-Commerce, Countries, Europe, Russia, ozon, sapato
Feb 15, 2012 3:11 AM
Shareholders in big Chinese online game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment (NSDQ: SNDA) have voted in favour of a proposal by which its CEO and his family will take over the company.
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Countries, Asia, China
Feb 13, 2012 11:03 AM
One of the more popular instant messaging mobile apps is taking a $10 (£6.32) million investment from a Russian investor.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Countries, Europe, Germany, Russia
Feb 13, 2012 9:20 AM
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week.
Posted In: E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Countries, Asia, Japan, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, brazil, nikkei
Feb 13, 2012 5:33 AM
Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reseller (not an official brand store) over the weekend, seizing 45 iPad 2 units as part of an investigation into Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) “iPad” trademark dispute in the country.
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Patents, Companies, Apple, iPad, Countries, Asia, China
Feb 8, 2012 5:35 AM
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services—enabling people to buy Facebook Credits and charge them directly to their mobile bills. Now, it’s increasingly looking like that may just be the beginning: today, UK-based mobile billing and analytics specialist Bango (AIM: BGO) announced that…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Marketing, Mobile, Companies, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, RIM, Countries, Europe, UK, bango
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 7, 2012 7:36 AM
Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, delays on new products, and the departure of its co-CEOs/founders in the last month after several bad quarters. But at a developers’ conference that kicked off today…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, Countries, Europe, UK, playbook, thorsten heins
Feb 7, 2012 4:52 AM
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, this time expanding out of Europe in to Latin America.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Weblogs, Countries, Europe, Italy, Ireland, Latin America
Feb 6, 2012 1:27 PM
The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have their own Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) sites.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Countries, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, kindle touch
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 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.
Posted In: Legal, Companies, Google, Countries, Europe, France
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…
Posted In: Legal, Patents, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung, Countries, Europe, Germany
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 2, 2012 9:20 AM
Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the growth we’ve seen in the space, you can argue that it might be missing a trick.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Search, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Apple, Facebook, Google, Android, Countries, inneractive, jumptap, mojiva
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
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