Lilly Vitorovich, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 27, 2011 at 5:35 am PT
U.K. chip designer ARM once again delivered the goods, Wednesday reporting solid first quarter results ahead of market expectations on the back of its processor business. It’s also quietly confident about the outlook; reiterating its annual revenue guidance.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 11, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Bebo, the social network bought and sold by AOL, still has 10 million monthly unique visitors, with an average user age of 17 and lots of them in the U.K..
News Byte
Voices in News on March 7, 2011 at 9:39 am PT
Google today
shelled out about $61 million for
BeatThatQuote, a U.K. site that lets consumers compare and apply for lower rates and cheaper prices on various services and products, including financial, insurance, legal assistance, utilities and merchandise.
News Byte
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 28, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT
Seattle-based PopCap
has commissioned a study that doesn’t necessarily support the bulk of its business to date — making games for consoles and computers. The
pre-IPO casual-game maker of Bejeweled said the survey, conducted by Information Solutions Group, found that among mobile phone gamers in the U.S. and UK, 44 percent say the phone is the primary gaming device of choice, leapfrogging video game consoles (21 percent) and personal computers (30 percent) since a similar survey was last conducted in 2009.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 22, 2011 at 11:30 am PT
Apple said today its App Store has hit more than 10 billion downloads worldwide, equating to roughly 62 apps for each one of its 160 million iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 16, 2010 at 7:24 am PT
A sketchily sourced report out of London says that Oracle and Microsoft may be lining up to bid on the British Software firm Autonomy early in 2011. Rumors are always rumors of course, but there’s a good reason to give this one some thought.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 10, 2010 at 12:45 pm PT
You might think twice about publishing a WikiLeaks e-book if you got threatening emails, too. An odd chapter to a weird story.
Jeanne Whalen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 7, 2010 at 8:20 am PT
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was denied bail at a court hearing following his arrest in the U.K. early Tuesday on an international warrant related to sexual-assault allegations in Sweden.
Paul Sonne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 3, 2010 at 8:53 am PT
U.K. officials ruled Wednesday that Google Inc. broke the law by collecting data from wireless networks for its Street View mapping service, reflecting growing scrutiny in Europe of the U.S. Internet company’s privacy practices.
Lilly Vitorovich, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 2, 2010 at 11:58 am PT
News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper division announced Tuesday that more than 100,000 readers have paid for digital editions of the Times and Sunday Times–with about half of those being monthly subscribers–following a move to put the newspapers’ content behind a paywall.
