Shazam announced today that it has struck a deal with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Germany in which the operator will include its mobile music discovery application on its Vodafone Live! portal.…

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The German engineering group has announced a $4.3 billion (3 billion euro) overhaul that would cut about 16,750 jobs, sell off a unit and lower administrative expenses, Bloomberg reported. While…

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-- Germany to auction second tranche of 3G licenses: Germany will launch a second round of 3G auctions next year that will allow both new entrants and incumbents to participate,…

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Germany will launch a second round of 3G auctions next year, that will allow both new entrants and incumbents to participate, which could put more financial pressure on existing license…

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Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) 3G iPhone is both a blessing and a bane for Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), where in Germany it is the exclusive carrier of the gadget, while in…

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Cologne, Germany-based Communology has received “several million dollars” in a second round of funding. The lead investor was Munich Venture Partners and existing investors S-VC, Kreditanstalt Wiederaufbau and founders Thomas…

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A lot of hype surrounds mobile marketing, with lots of talk of “immediacy” and “intimacy,” but not a whole lot of results yet. BMW, however, is one major brand that…

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When it comes to mobile, the perception is that the U.S. is always behind Europe, but a new report being released today says that when it pertains to the adoption…

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Italian mobile content company Buongiorno released financial results for the first half of the year today, reporting that both revenues and operating profits are up in the six-month period, but…

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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…

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Deutsche Telekom’s second quarter profit dropped 35 percent to 394 million euros ($608.2 million) from 604 million euros ($934 million) a year ago. The company blamed the strong euro and…

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Toshiba mobile TV subsidiary Mobile Broadcasting Corporation is shutting down, after failing to attract enough interest, the company said Thursday. “The number of subscribers has not reached a sufficient level…

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The companies behind Mobile 3.0, publishing houses Burda and Holtzbrinck together with South African media company Naspers, are reportedly about to end their plans to launch a DVB-H network in…

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The German Federal Patent Court ruled today that Qualcomm’s GSM patent case against Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is invalid, Reuters reports. This is the third court to conclude that the American…

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-- *AT&T* Navigator available worldwide: AT&T (NYSE: T) has extended its GPS navigation service outside the U.S. borders to more than 20 countries now. The new coverage areas include most…

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German mobile social network Aka-Aki, which uses Bluetooth to do location-aware proximity networking and is also available in English, has raised a small investment of an undisclosed size from Crea…

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Ad-funded mobile MVNO Blyk will launch in Germany, Spain, and Belgium next year, the company said today. Reuters reports that British-Finnish start up is in “late stage” talks with operators…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is continuing on its social media related acquisition trail: it has now bought out Zurich and Berlin-based social networking service Plazes. Terms of the deal were not…

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT), feeling ignored among all the iPhone-mania, has announced a deal of its own: in UK, it has done a deal with Paramount Pictures to offer full-length film…

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Rafat was almost right on the button. In a meeting today, Jamba decided to stop developing its own mobile games, so is shutting its Ojom development unit. Berlin-based Ojom is…

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More evidence that DVB-T, the technology that allows handsets to receive regular terrestrial TV signals, may have European operators rethinking their mobile TV business models. According to Forbes, picking up…

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Arun Sarin, who defined Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) as the big global telecom conglomerate in his five years as CEO, is going to step down in July and will be replaced…

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In the last few weeks, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been striking iPhone deals with carriers around the world, with the handsets to be sold on a non-exclusive basis in several…

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German mobile content vendor Mobivention has bought Download Content business of German-based Airmotion—the companies aren’t releasing the financial details but Mobivention claims it will contribute to a “significant 6-digit increase…

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News Corp/VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) mobile entertainment JV Jamster/Jamba has hired Endemol International’s digital media director William Linders as its content EVP, based at the Berlin HQ. Linders had spent seven…

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