(Reuters) – About six months ago, people working on hardware and the voice-activated Google Assistant for the Pixel phone started sitting next to each other at the company’s Mountain View, California headquarters, hammering out minute Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Seventy-five percent of internet use will be mobile in 2017, up slightly from this year, as a growing number of consumers around the world access the web on smartphones and tablets Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese internet search giant Baidu warned investors fourth-quarter revenue will slide, hitting shares, as a government crackdown on healthcare advertising that tipped the firm into its first-ever quarterly sales drop bites even Read more…
ITEM: If you want to keep your OTT messages private, don’t use Skype, Snapchat or anything from Tencent. That’s the warning this week from Amnesty International, which ranked 16 popular messaging apps from 11 companies Read more…
AT&T obviously didn’t read the recent, depressing, report from Citi that says telcos are going to find it tougher to invest in a climate of increased regulation, competition and thinner margins. Or, like us, they read Read more…
Turner Asia Pacific has announced a new enhancement to its Cartoon Network Watch and Play app for Philippines cellco Globe Telecom that allows customers to livestream Cartoon Network and on-demand content via a new authenticated Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for what would be the biggest deal in the Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Advertising technology company Mirriad says it is working with Samsung Electronics and China’s video site Youku to market Samsung products to Chinese viewers who are gravitating toward streaming video content. Mirriad’s Read more…
BBC Worldwide has announced a co-production deal with China’s Tencent for Planet Earth II, marking the first time that BBC Worldwide will co-produce a documentary with a video platform in China. The deal was sealed at Read more…
No one wants to buy Twitter – not right now, anyway. Plenty of official reasons have been given, but an unofficial reason may be trolls. Of the internet kind, that is. Various companies, from Google Read more…
(Reuters) – The Indian cricket board said it had received interest from Facebook and Twitter for media rights to the popular Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament. The social media companies are among a Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings said a consortium formed to buy game developer Supercell has raised $850 million by selling new shares to investors including Chinese state-owned investment firms AVIC Capital and CITIC Capital. Read more…
(Reuters) – Twitter faces an uncertain future after Saleforce.com, the last of the companies believed to be interested in buying the troubled social network, said on Friday that it would not make a bid. Twitter Read more…
(Reuters) – Discovery Communications, which owns networks like the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, on Thursday became the latest TV company to invest in digital content in an effort to reach mobile viewers. Discovery invested Read more…
(Reuters) – Sony Corp plans to release five or more smartphone games around late March 2018, the Nikkei business daily said on Thursday. Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony’s video game development arm, is looking to develop Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Baidu Inc said on Wednesday it has established a 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) investment fund, Baidu Capital, as the country’s dominant search engine seeks a way to remain relevant in Read more…
(Reuters) – Photo-sharing app Snapchat’s parent is working on an initial public offering that could value the company at $25 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing several people familiar with the matter. Read more…
ITEM: Newly released data from the research arm of the GSMA pegs Asia as the key growth engine for the global mobile ecosystem, while cellco revenues are shifting from traditional voice and SMS services to Read more…
PCCW Media has launched its “Moov” OTT music platform in Vietnam in a bid to build up its position as a regional OTT content provider – and a viable alternative to content piracy. PCCW Media Read more…
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