Samsung Electronics is considering buying U.S. PC and mobile memory card maker SanDisk, according to a Korean online report (*Google* translation of the story here), and then later confirmed by the company. After the report came out, Samsung spokesperson said: "We are looking at various opportunities regarding SanDisk (NSDQ:...
Samsung Electronics is considering buying U.S. PC and mobile memory card maker SanDisk, according to a Korean online report (*Google* translation of the story here), and then later confirmed by the company. After the report came out, Samsung spokesperson said: "We are looking at various opportunities regarding SanDisk (NSDQ:...
London-based Connect2Media, a publisher of mobile content, which just merged with the European operations of Hands-On, said it has acquired RayFusion, an Israeli-based mobile content distributor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition will enable RayFusion to expand its distribution to include carrier accounts in Europe, the...
-- Digital Rights Group: Lee deBoer has been tapped to lead the UK distributor's new U.S. branch, Variety reports. A 20-year HBO vet, deBoer will now be responsible for acquiring rights from U.S. content creators and pitching shows to the UK for DRG. During his tenure at HBO, he...
Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. In a post on its official blog, Moscow-based Quintura hopes this latest capital infusion will attract additional investors. It also hopes to grow its audience reach from its...
Andrew Bagguley, the head of mobile strategy at News Corp's (NYSE: NWS) News International UK news publisher, is leaving next month, a further casualty of the corporate-level reorganisation ensuing from Boston Consulting Group's recent review. News Int's titles - most prominently, The Sun - had developed some attractive mobile...
The outlook for UK news publishers is as gray and overcast as this summer's weather has been, as the latest earnings testify. Johnston Press, the country's second largest regional news company with 300 weekly titles and 323 websites, saw pre-tax profit slump 18.1 percent to £62.5 million ($115 million)...
Top US social nets Facebook and MySpace haven't been able to capture the top spot in Japan, where publicly traded Mixi reigns supreme. Mixi itself, however, may be looking to expand in North American and in Europe. In an interview with Reuters, CEO Kenji Kasahara said the company would...
Alibaba.com, the Chinese B2B marketplace, in which Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) holds direct and indirect stakes, said revenue for the first half of '08 jumped 47.8 percent to RMB 1.45 billion ($211.9 million). Net income was up 136 percent to 697.2 million ($101.8). In terms of raw numbers, Alibaba.com has...
Maybe it's not all Apple's fault after all. French wireless carrier Orange has admitted to capping 3G network speeds at 384Kbps for iPhone customers, AppleInsider reports. Perhaps that's why iPhone users on Germany's T-Mobile network were reporting speeds as high as 1800Kbps while Orange customers' data moved at a...
EU telcoms commissioner Vivianne Reding may have had her attempt to reduce roaming data charges thwarted last month - but she isn't giving up that easily.While Europe's price ceiling for making roaming calls falls further this Saturday, the reductions do not apply to SMS or data. Reding said today:...
Former Digitas exec Neal Prescott has been named CEO of WPP Digital's new production services unit, Deliver. The new unit will tie together production services in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Africa and work with all of WPP's digital properties, including Actis Systems Russia, AGENDA China,...
Zero2IPO, an online financial info services provider on the China VC and PE markets, has raised a big $60 million round from a total of 46 different investors, according to SEC filing, picked up by PEHub. The company started as an online database of VC and M&A deals in...
Well, someone stood up for it: the Advertising Standards Authority in UK has ruled that one of the most prominent Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone ads is misleading for the consumers, reports BBC. This is the ad which says that "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone",...
German audience measurement firm GfK appears to be withdrawing its bid for British research company Taylor Nelson Sofres, according to Reuters, which cited a story in Germany's Manager magazine based on unidentified sources. GfK is said to be dropping its bid because Apax, the PE firm that agreed to...
-- Digital now 25 percent of WPP's revs: During the first half of '08, WPP Group's revenue gained 14.3 percent to $6.1 billion (£3.3 billion), despite a worsening ad economy overall. Also, the UK ad holding company said digital now makes up 25 percent of its $13 billion in...
Two separate reports released today confirmed that the iPhone is selling well despite initial activation problems, and that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) believes that it will continue to sell well after launching in various countries. -- T-Mobile International said it has sold more than 120,000 iPhone 3G devices since it...
Twistbox, the mobile entertainment firm which is owned by OTC-traded Mandalay Media, is in the process of buying out European mobile content firm AMV Holding. For now, this is an LOI stage, and may not necessarily go through. AMV, founded in 2004, has brands such as Bling, Phonebar and...
Australian telecom firm ComTel is making a brave move: it is launching SMSpup Mobile, a new prepaid MVNO service offering AU$130 of talk and text value for AU$29 per month but customers who agree to receive five SMS or e-mail ads per day will only be charged AU$10, a...
For the last few weeks, Facebook users outside the U.S. and Canada could do the superior dance between rounds of Scrabulous. Access to Scrabulous, the Scrabble knockoff developed by Indian brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, from those countries halted last month when the developers agreed to pull the program...
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