News Corp’s Jamba, known outside of Germany as Jamster, has launched a record label, JamStar Records, and an ambitious strategy to create a social community around the artists, according to…

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United Media, which owns the rights to the popular cartoon brand Peanuts, has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Mobile Streams to offer video and animated content to operators in…

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Neomedia, the mobile marketing firm which bought a bunch of mobile startups and have disposed off some of them over the last year, has now sold off 12snap, the German-mobile…

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WPP is continuing on its taking-stake-in-digital-startups route: it has bought a 40 percent stake in Germany-based mobile marketing network company Iconmobile. Founded in 2003, Iconmobile is headquartered in Berlin with…

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German company MobileLabs has launched a Java app that supports a variety of messaging options, reports Alarm Clock. The application is called Blu and connects with the phones operating system…

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Mobile TV based on the DVB-H standard may have got off to a slow start in Germany, but a mainstream audience for the services will gather momentum beginning next year,…

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Vodafone Netherlands has a new twist on ad-funded schemes. Rather than copy other companies that target youth with free games and ringtones, Vodafone’s campaign aggressively is going after the enterprise…

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German telco Deutsche Telekom reported an unexpected fourth-quarter loss of 898 million euros ($1.2 billion), pinning the blame on an exodus of landline customers and price pressure from rival providers.…

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Social software and mobile social networking took center stage at yesterday’s Mobile Monday in Düsseldorf, where over 100 showed up to hear senior execs from mabber.com, Plazes, Nimbuzz, SoonR and…

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Germany’s Telfish.com has received an undisclosed amount of funding in the run up to the commercial launch of its mobile subscription fee search and switch service, according to The Alarm…

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According to a German-language press release, Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland GmbH (MFD), which has secured spectrum from local media authorities to broadcast TV signals to mobile phones using the DMB (Digital…

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German mobile operator E-Plus has added a new cartoon content channel to its WAP portal. CARTOON CITY will feature clips and episodes of shows, including Happy Tree Friends, Peanuts, Mr.…

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IMG, the sports and other media management giant, has bought out Germany-based mobile Tv technology and content applications firm Nunet. The company says Nunet streams more than 200 channels for…

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This is behind a subscription wall at Telecom Paper so we can only see the first paragraph, but it says that “German mobile service provider debitel has won only 5000…

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News Corp’s Jamba, known outside of Germany as Jamster, continues to grow its content stockpile, this time signing a licensing agreement with Viacom. The press release (currently only in German…

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To take some of the pain out of finding and buying content from its online portal Jamba has introduced Jamba World, a new software that gives users access to the…

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The European Commission has given the green light to the proposed joint venture between Vodafone in Germany and Arvato mobile, a fully-owned media services unit belonging to Bertelsmann, the German…

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Jamba, known outside Europe as Jamster, continues to add to the stockpile of content available on its German music portal. This time the company has introduced spoken word content ranging…

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According to a German-language press release, Mobilcom has tied up with Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland GmbH (MFD), which has secured spectrum from local media authorities to broadcast TV signals to mobile…

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Details are sketchy, but this report in the German press reveals that MTV is planning a pre-paid mobile together with an as yet unnamed mobile operator. VIVA, the other music…

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E-Plus, the German cellco belonging to KPN, has partnered with Vivendi-owned Universal Music Germany to target local music enthusiasts between 16-29. The new brand, Vybemobile, will combine simple tariffs with…

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Proof, or at least early indications, that News Corp, which last week bought majority in Jamba, would let it work with rival companies: it is wooing partners for Jamba Music,…

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In a rare case of rivals working together, Deutsche Telekom has agreed to share the mobile phone rights to German premier league football with its main rival Vodafone...DT won the…

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News Corp, in search of a strategy on the mobile side of things after pioneering some early efforts in mobile content, has bought a majority (51 percent) of Verisign-owned mobile…

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Nokia has announced it will buy German navigation software maker gate5 by the end of the year with the intent of offering maps on its mobile phones. “Maps and navigation…

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