SMS was Western Europe’s biggest mobile data services revenue generator in 2007 raking in €16.42 billion, but operators are keen to push MMS and mobile instant messaging, as SMS revenues…

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Shazam Entertainment has signed a distribution deal with Samsung Electronics that will see the mobile music discovery application embedded into the handset makers’ Beatb (model: M3510) and the Beats (model:…

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A big second round for local search startup Zvents… The San Mateo, CA-based company has raised $24 million from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Growth Partners, AT&T (NYSE: T), and Navteq, along…

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Sixteen global IT and telecoms giants, including Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Telefónica, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM), have come together to create a new gadget category—the always-connected mobile broadband…

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We’re thrilled to announce that National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman will be featured in the Spotlight Q&A at our EconSports conference the morning of Oct. 29. The event will…

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Update: The company has now officially announced it...the deal is expected to close in Q4, and Oz will become part of Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Services & Software operative unit. Nokia…

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Nokia’s CTO Bob Iannucci has resigned immediately for personal reasons, Reuters reports. Iannucci started in the new position last January and will continue to be on call as an adviser…

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Connect2Media is preparing to release 12 games for the Android operating system, Mobile Entertainment reports. Less than two months after merging with the European operations of Hands-On Mobile, the firm…

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New York City-based Send Word Now has raised $14 million in a fourth round of funding led by Palisade Concentrated Equity Partnership II. Southpaw Asset Management and Ascend Venture Group…

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Tech stocks took a huge hit today, following the house’s failure to pass a bailout plan intended to rescue the nation’s financial system and the Dow tumbling 778 points. To…

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Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) is turning the boat around. The 12-year-old Italian digital content provider, which began as an email newsletter, is “making a huge play” in the mobile social network…

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-- CBS* teams with *AT&T* for exposure at Starbucks with Wi-Fi: CBS (NYSE: CBS) says it’s doing a first here by targeting Wi-Fi users at Starbucks locations to promote some…

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We’re thrilled to announce that National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman will be featured in the Spotlight Q&A at our EconSports conference the morning of Oct. 29. The event will…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is reorganizing the Connected Life division with the intention of actually making money. The reorganization, announced internally today at an all-hands meeting, includes a management shuffle and…

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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is cutting 450 employees from its North American operations in Durham, North Carolina. Triangle Business Journal reports that SE had 750 staff at its…

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iPhone Coming to Verizon: There are signs that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is working on an EVDO version of the iPhone, possibly for Verizon (NYSE: VZ), 9to5mac reports. According to a…

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A number of private-equity firms may be interested in buying Sprint’s (NYSE: S) Nextel network, using iDEN technology, according to mergermarket via FT.com. The interested buyers may include TPG Capital…

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In a case of I-told-you-so, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is reaffirming with statistics the goal it set out to accomplish on mobile during the Beijing Olympics: attract scores of new…

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This may all change depending on what happens after Sprint’s (NYSE: S) Xohm and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) merge later this year (pending regulatory approval), but today Sprint said it launched…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today to ensure it has a clear focus on the consumer market, it will reallocate resources and sell some assets that were focused on the enterprise.…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has appointed two heads to its recently split emerging markets division. The company has promoted from within, moving current UK chief executive Nick Read to run its…

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We have some exciting new additions to our speaker lineups for our trio of conferences at the end of October: the Future of Business Media on Oct. 28, EconSports and…

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Heaven only knows where they got this figure, but market researcher TNS Technology reckons the emerging unlimited mobile music services like Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Comes With Music an SonyEricsson’s (NSDQ:…

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Trip Hawkins is in the middle of transitioning Digital Chocolate from a company he started almost five years ago as a pureplay mobile game company to a social media company…

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San Mateo, Calif.-based Skydeck plans to announce today that it has raised $3 million in a first round of capital to continue building out its services that help you keep…

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