KMR - 18.11.11 14:08 China has become an increasingly important part of Apple’s empire, and today it looks like the company has taken one more step to growing that even more: the company is now accepting payments in Chinese Yuan on its App Store.

The change, reported by the China-based blog Penn-Olson, will mean that users can pay for apps in the store using local... mehr bei paidcontent.org

worldspy - 17.11.11 21:29 Speaking at Liberty Media’s annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects the size of the print book market to decrease by a third by 2015, while the e-book market grows by 700 percent—and B&N sees itself taking larger shares of both the print and digital book markets in that... mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 07.11.11 21:37 “Where did the computer go?” was the slogan Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) used in 2004 when it launched the first of its current range of iMac desktop computers. The question was designed to draw attention to the ingenuity with which the company’s designers had managed to pack the components of an entire desktop computer into what was effectively an... mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 03.11.11 22:36 It’s a wild world these days at the intersection of traditional television business models and all the new ways that people are consuming content online and across different devices. Panelists at paidContent Entertainment 2011 grappled with the implications of that shift by emphasizing the need for quality: quality metrics, quality marketing... mehr bei paidcontent.org

worldspy - 02.11.11 17:44 These are the 10 countries where mobile apps have seen the fastest consumer adoption this year, new Flurry analytics show...


“China’s growth is astronomical,” writes Flurry’s Peter Farago. “While the top 100 countries are averaging session growth of over 200 percent, China is delivering more than four times this growth rate, spurred by a massive... mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 27.10.11 08:33 RIM’s rough year hasn’t gotten any better this week. The company was forced to delay the implementation of the feature for which it is known best—e-mail—from its Playbook tablet as it also faced the possibility of having to defend itself against a possible class-action suit stemming from the three-day BlackBerry outage a few weeks back. mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 26.10.11 14:11 Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher of Glamour, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired says that new subscription sales, per week, across all nine digital editions, was up 268 percent, with single copy sales up 142 percent compared to the previous... mehr bei paidcontent.org

worldspy - 19.10.11 15:39 The Economist is finally moving to an iPad strategy compliant with Apple’s new developer terms, after what it calls “iOS bugs” under the new iOS 5 broke its non-compliant app edition.
The newspaper’s debut app appears to be non-compliant with Apple‘s summer-time developer terms update because it takes subscription and single-copy payments directly... mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 19.10.11 06:04 Millions of people are embracing free mobile messaging services like WhatsApp and Kik as a way to avoid outrageous carrier charges for texting. But now one user says he has evidence that the popular service WhatsApp engaged in an egregious breach of his privacy. mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 11.10.11 13:50 Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app, says it is the most-downloaded free music app in both the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store and Android Market in the U.S. mehr bei paidcontent.org