At NATPE yesterday, I spoke to Greg Clayman, EVP, Digital Distribution & Business Development, MTV, who overlooks all of MTVN’s mobile businesses. He moderated a panel on what’s working in…

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It’s not about the iPhone, really. But while O2 UK announced yesterday cuts across all of their consumer tariffs, news that iPhone tariffs were being slashed were seized upon as…

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BroadWebAsia, an investment firm started by Brad Greenspan, has offered to buy a majority share of Chinese mobile content and applications provider Linktone (NSDQ: LTON), challenging a November offer from…

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-- *CBS Interactive* gets official Grammy role: The digital arm of CBS (NYSE: CBS) has been named the official online partner of The Recording Academy to distribute Grammy-related assets from…

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Presenting the move as routine, MNVO Helio just announced that Sky Dayton has moved to non-executive chairman of the board, leaving the post of CEO for Wohnee Sull, who had…

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Following through on last summer’s promises, YouTube is broadening its mobile service to include most of its video library, as well as upload capabilities to a majority of mobile devices…

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[by David Kaplan and Rafat Ali] Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, we have learned. The…

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The conventional view is that Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) participation in the upcoming 700 MHz auction isn’t actually about acquiring spectrum, but about advancing its vision of open wireless networks. With…

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As expected, SprintNextel is cutting 4,000 jobs and shutting 8 percent of its stores as the company wrestles with increasing costs and subscriber losses. The move is designed to save…

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*Sprint* Nextel CEO Dan Hesse expects to cut several thousand jobs to demonstrate his promise to instill greater efficiencies and cost savings, WSJ reports. No clear numbers were available yet.…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will buy Norwegian web and mobile enterprise search software firm Fast Search & Transfer in a deal that values the company at 6.6 billion kroner ($1.23 billion),…

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it will acquire online and mobile music distribution company Soundbuzz. The details of the deal have not been disclosed, but Motorola expects to close…

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-- Sun-Sentinel: Tribune-owned South Florida Sun-Sentinel has undertaken a major restructuring of its online unit. Kathy Skipper, the website’s GM and a 24-year Sun-Sentinel vet, has been laid off. Jeff…

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Music Intelligence Solutions has completed an angel round of funding of $7 million. The participants of the round weren’t disclosed, but were described as “angel investors with ties to global…

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When Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced its one-year free music offer “Comes with Music” with Universal yesterday, details were sparse. There was no word on which handset the service would be…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Universal are upping the stakes in the music download market, teaming together to offer free 12-month access to music from Universal’s artists to buyer’s of Nokia’s…

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News Corp and Verisign’s Jamba mobile content JV will base its CEO in Berlin, become MySpace’s m-commerce facilitator in six European countries and push its new mobile/desktop music store out…

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So it is finalized: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will announce on Friday that it will apply to bid for wireless spectrum in a January Federal Communications Commission auction reports the Wall…

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Our sister site paidContent:UK reports on Reuters’ (NSDQ: RTRSY) implementation of a “mobile journalism toolkit” developed in partnership with Nokia. The first trials were with TV reporters shooting video for…

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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless has announced that its handsets will, for the first time, be opened up for third party applications: In early 2008, the company will publish the technical…

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We recently did a roundtable discussion in London with some key mobile industry-related executives, discussing one of our favorite topics these days: open mobile networks and handsets, and the changing…

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Even icons need marketing. Greg Joswiak, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) marketing whiz working with the iPod and the iPhone, talked with Fortune’s Jon Fortt recently about the upcoming developer’s kit…

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Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) has paid back the roughly $80 million investment used to fund its start in 2000—nearly $3 million per team, according to Sports Business Journal…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is in the process of expanding an online service that will serve as the back end for a slew of new entertainment offerings, with a particular focus…

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Now that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has got the Android out of its system, in more ways than one, the focus is on the spectrum auction, coming up early next year.…

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