Posted by Simon Perry on 6 June 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Music
Paul McGuinness, the manager of U2, has been speaking at a conference, Music Matters conference in Asia, addressing what he thinks is wrong with the music business and who is to blame for its reduced ability to make money.
Broadly — to save you having to read the 12 pages of it — he thinks the […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 4 June 2008 | Tagged as: Business, UK, Advertising
New advertising formats see UK online ad spending soaring.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 3 June 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Security
Survey finds that 60% of business laptops remain unencrypted.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Content, UK
CD singles market in terminal decline as digital takes over.
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 May 2008 | Tagged as: Africa, Banking, Business, Wireless, Cellular
Monitise, a company that provides banking and payment service via mobile phones, has announced that it will be offering their services in East Africa.
Much has been written previously about how mobile phones provide the communications — spoken and Internet — to many countries where their physical, in-ground infrastructure falls far behind their wireless links.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 14 May 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Business, BT, PVR/DVR, IPTV, HDTV
Pace, UK-based creators of digital TV products, has won a new contract to supply BT with their next-generation V-box, for use on the BT Vision service.
Previously Philips supplied the V-box (that runs the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV middleware) but following Pace’s purchase of Philips Set Top Box (STB) division, it’s natural — but we imagine pleasing […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Europe, UK, Analysis
Following on from the announcement of the proposed deal between Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse’s retail operation, we thought this was such a significant deal, we’d carry an analysis piece on it.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 8 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Investments, Europe, UK
Best Buy, the US consumer electronics retail giant, is intending to buy 50% of Carphone Warehouse’s retail operation for £1.1 Billion.
Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse have known each other for a while, as CW have been selling mobile phones in concessions within Best Buy’s shops in the US over the last two years.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Microsoft, Yahoo
Bill Gates and Co give up on Yahoo takeoever; market not thrilled.
Posted by Simon Perry on 6 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Apple, Vodafone, Mobile, Cellular
Vodafone have just announced that it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten countries around the world.
Those countries are Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.
When they will be available is currently unclear beyond, “later this year.”
The wording that Vodafone has […]
