9 posts and columns on operators

Report Finds That Mobile Payments Are Coming This Year, but It Will Be Messy

in Commerce on April 6, 2011 at 11:11 am PT

This year will finally be the year when mobile payments make it into the hands of millions of consumers, according to a new report by Forrester. And mass-market adoption? Still a long way off.

Now Open: Amazon Appstore Launches With 3,800 Apps for Android

in Commerce on March 22, 2011 at 12:05 am PT

With 3,800 apps on Day One, Amazon has officially launched the Android Appstore, a potential iTunes equivalent for Android.

Longtime Facebook Biz Dev Leader Ali Rosenthal to Depart

in Social on January 12, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Alison “Ali” Rosenthal, a veteran of the Facebook business development team, will leave the company at the end of this week, she told NetworkEffect.

Biggest Mobile Breakthrough of 2011? Survey Says: Payments.

in Commerce on January 3, 2011 at 11:44 am PT

This year’s break-out mobile sector? Not location-based services, voice over-IP, or even mobile advertising, according to a survey of mobile execs. They say the action will be in payments and commerce.

Google Going to Abide by Chinese Law Whether Google Likes It or Not

in News on March 23, 2010 at 12:12 pm PT

Well, that didn’t take long at all. China parried Google’s challenge to its control of the Internet this morning, limiting access to the search giant’s unfiltered Hong Kong site. Multiple reports out of China today claim Beijing is restricting access to Google.com.hk and blocking searches on sensitive queries.
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News Corp.: Conan’s Not Coming to Fox Just Yet; Amazon’s Ready to Bend on E-Book Pricing

in Media on February 2, 2010 at 2:41 pm PT

Amazon caved to Macmillan’s demands on e-book pricing, and now the online retailer is set to give News Corp.’s HarperCollins a new deal too, says Rupert Murdoch. Meanwhile, don’t hold your breath waiting for Conan O’Brien on Fox.

Apple: How Do You Say “Eat My Dust” in Finnish?

in News on November 11, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

At 37.9 percent, Nokia’s share of the global handset market is the largest in the industry. Odd then to learn that it is not the most profitable. And odder still to learn that that honor belongs to Apple, which has been in the handset market for just two years.
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Happy Days Aren’t Here Again: Another Miserable Quarter for NBC

in Media on July 17, 2009 at 4:38 am PT

Yesterday, Google told Wall Street that its business had “stabilized” during the spring, but it may be one of the only media companies that gets to say that. GE’s NBC Universal, for instance, just posted second-quarter results that were as bad as its first quarter. Jeff Zucker’s TV and movie unit said revenue was down eight percent, and profit down 41 percent for the three months ending June 30; in the previous quarter, revenue was only down two percent, while profit was down 43 percent.
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Android on Steroids

in News on May 11, 2009 at 10:51 am PT

2009 is going to be a banner year for Google’s Android mobile operating system. Strategy Analytics estimates shipments of handsets running the OS will grow 900 percent this year as more vendors adopt it. At that rate, it will far outpace the growth of Apple’s iPhone, whose shipments the company expects to increase 79 percent in 2009.
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