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Of the top 20 most popular Web sites, half of them did not work well on mobile phones, even though up to 5 percent of visitors these days are now coming from mobile devices, according to a study conducted by Bango (AIM: BGO), which provides tools for mobile analytics. It seems despite all the hype about...
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News Corp ( NYSE: NWS ) is overhauling its mobile operations after paying VeriSign ( NSDQ: VRSN ) $200 million for its remaining 49 percent state in Jamba, the mobile content company. This marks the end to the company's whirlwind history, which succeeded with the rise of ringtones, only to struggle...
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It's not all prime time programming, but Fox Reality Channel is stepping up to the plate with a new push for the iPhone nonetheless. There's been a glaring absence of big entertainment brands on the App Store since it launched and this, unfortunately, doesn't move the needle any further in...
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A group of executives from MediaFLO USA, MobiTV, MTV, Disney ( NYSE: DIS ) and Fox sat in on an afternoon panel that addressed the various business models and use types that comprise the mobile TV space today and where they hope to see things going as more models and technologies converge. Predicting...
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A slew of management changes at Fox Mobile Entertainment as the division of Fox Entertainment Group seeks to build up its catalog and distribution and offer new mobile content offerings, the company announced today. -- Former International VP Andrew Stalbow returns from his two-year stint in Fox's...
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NBC Universal's ( NYSE: GE ) UK-based EMEA mobile director Amelia Gammon is leaving to join Fox. Gammon joined the broadcaster's new mobile unit in 2006 following a stint as digital marketing partnerships manager at MTV Networks ( NYSE: VIA ) Europe. She said her time with NBC had been "an...
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Not sure what value it has, but MySpace has launched a local European mobile site for its users. The new landing page directs visitors to new features including the ability to update and share status with friends, check mail, post blogs and add friends, which I am assuming is true for its U.S. mobile...
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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...
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News Corp's UK satellite pay-TV unit Sky has promoted David Gibbs to General Manager for Mobile, and has appointed ex-AOL head of mobile Tim Hussain to the newly created position of head of mobile advertising. Gibbs comes from Sky's Commercial Group where he helped develop and manage its mobile...
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In our second of a series ( first is here ) of reviews on mobile content from the Olympics, we took a look at the major sports news sites – ESPN ( NYSE: DIS ), NBC Sports, CBS ( NYSE: CBS ) Sports and Fox Sports – to see which is providing the best mobile experience on their mobile site's homepages...
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The Cell —no, not the J. Lo flick—but a made-for mobile show, produced by Endemol, has been purchased by Fox International Channels as its first online-only property, Brand Republic reports. The program, which covered a span of 20 episodes in two-minute chunks, got play in the U.K. on O2 and on Sony's...
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Not necessarily a secret, but Verisign is divesting off its "non-core" businesses, and has done some of them, but is now hitting road bumps in selling off some of the bigger units, as it admitted in its Q208 results call today . "As market conditions have worsened, buyers are taking more...