Did we mention that Billy Bragg is speaking at EconMusic, our London conference examining the digital music business on September 23? Billy has previously taken on MySpace for its policy…

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-- EA Mobile releases ‘Spore Origins’ for iPhone: EA Mobile released “Spore Origins,” its latest game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, today along with news that nine more titles…

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Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org, paidContent:UK And contentSutra: paidContent.org: -- Interview: Tom Brettingen, Chief Revenue Officer, AP: ‘Returning $20 Million To The Industry’ -- Google’s…

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Top headlines of the week from our sister sites mocoNews, paidContent:UK, and contentSutra: mocoNews: -- Interview: iFund Manager Matt Murphy Says “The iPhone Is The Place To Be” -- Interview:…

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Lookery, a company which analyzes demographic data on social net users and markets it to ad networks, has raised $2.25 million, Venturebeat reports. It says Lookery has already raised $1…

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Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding from Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. In a post on its official blog, Moscow-based Quintura…

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Joost, the once-hyped online video startup which was a non-starter with a desktop-only client, is now killing it, Om reports. It will go browser only, and will release a small…

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Did we mention that Billy Bragg is speaking at EconMusic, our London conference examining the digital music business on September 23? Billy has previously taken on MySpace for its policy…

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London-based Connect2Media, a publisher of mobile content, which just merged with the European operations of Hands-On, said it has acquired RayFusion, an Israeli-based mobile content distributor. Terms of the deal…

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-- Digital Rights Group: Lee deBoer has been tapped to lead the UK distributor’s new U.S. branch, Variety reports. A 20-year HBO vet, deBoer will now be responsible for acquiring…

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Lake Mary, Fla.-based Spectrum Bridge, which is headed by former Motorola (NYSE: MOT) executives, is launching SpecEx.com, which aims to create a secondary trading market for valuable spectrum. The site…

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Our latest choice jobs in digital media: -- Warner Bros.: Director, International Marketing -- Etsy: VP of Marketing -- Muze: Sales Director -- Tango Media: Executive Editor -- George Lucas…

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Tira Wireless, the Toronto-based mobile content porting company, has closed down, we have learned...we have been trying to contact the company for a week now, but no one has been…

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Maybe it was the bad economy. Maybe it’s the back-to-school season or an attempt to generate more interest ahead of Christmas shopping period. In any case, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hopes…

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Seattle-based Billing Revolution is coming out of stealth today to unveil a billing platform that’s designed to cut mobile operators out of the revenue stream for both digital and physical…

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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…

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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) may have prevailed in its patent lawsuit against the Dish Network, but investors appeared concerned after a federal judge declined to rule on the DVR company’s request…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) expects its share of the handset market to be lower in Q3 than Q2 - a change from its July 17 forecast, when it projected unchanged share.…

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3 UK wants to pick up the iPhone if O2’s exclusive UK deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) comes to an end, says CEO Kevin Russell (via Guardian.co.uk). With Apple now…

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The story of the sale of B2B publisher and Datamonitor owner Informa got longer last night after it rejected a total £3.2 billion ($5.57 billion) bid from a three-way consortium…

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Samsung Electronics is considering buying U.S. PC and mobile memory card maker SanDisk, according to a Korean online report (*Google* translation of the story here), and then later confirmed by…

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Samsung Electronics is considering buying U.S. PC and mobile memory card maker SanDisk, according to a Korean online report (*Google* translation of the story here), and then later confirmed by…

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-- McClatchy: North Carolina papers The News & Observer of Raleigh, and The Charlotte Observer are asking hundreds of staffers to accept buyouts. The News & Observer hopes at least…

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In 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will be part of a mobile social network, and that they will generate $410 million from subscriptions alone, which doesn’t include revenues from…

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Mobile voice and chat startup iSkoot has made a small acquisition: it has bought social IM aggregator client Social.im, according to Techcrunch. iSkoot was the first company to work with…

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