Posts tagged Wall Street
Deutsche Telekom considers T-Mobile USA IPO
Feb 6th
It’s no big secret that Deutsche Telekom hasn’t been very pleased with the performance of its American wireless arm, T-Mobile USA. In September, we reported that the German telecom giant was considering a merger with Sprint — shortly after T-Mobile UK merged with Orange to create the largest wireless company in the UK.
Now The Wall [...]
Publishers line up against Amazon’s $9.99 e-books
Feb 5th
The ten-dollar e-book may soon be gone, replaced by the fifteen-dollar eBook.
Last week, VentureBeat broke the news that Amazon had removed all Macmillan titles from its U.S. site and its Kindle downloads. You could look up the books, but you could only buy them from third party sellers, not from Amazon.
The move turned out to [...]
Is Facebook becoming a portal? Now 4th largest source of traffic to news sites
Feb 5th
New data from Experian Hitwise suggests that Facebook users are treating it increasingly like a portal — they’re using it as a source of news. Just under a year ago, less than 0.5% of visits to news and media sites came from Facebook, according to Experian Hitwise. Last week, 3.5% of visits to sites in [...]
A pretty chart of top apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry
Feb 5th
Mplayit, maker of the mobile app catalog that lives inside Facebook, will release a report later today that lists the top games in their collection. Tetris, The Sims 3, and Wheel of Fortune are among the winners. So are Tap Tap Revenge and Rock Band.
On Mplayit, users can rate, comment on, and recommend individual apps [...]
Facebook helps the news industry, but it’s no white knight
Feb 5th
Facebook is assuming its rightful place in the Internet ecosystem as a significant distribution channel for media properties.
Hitwise reported today that the social network now drives the fourth largest amount of traffic to media properties behind Google, Yahoo and MSN. Facebook’s public relations team also has started encouraging users to set up ‘News’ channels. (Facebook’s [...]
