January 2011

Business News Americas | January 26, 2011 | Patrick Nixon France’s MCTEL may open a new office in Brazil this year as it seeks to address niche market demands for …

TeleGeography | January 26, 2011 Argentina’s telecommunications ministry, Secretaria de Comunicaciones (SeCom), has granted a mobile network operator licence to triple-play provider Telecentro. According to a report by local daily …

International Business Times | January 25, 2011 | Gabriel Perna International Business Machines’ ever-expanding cloud computing services will continue development in Asia. The company announced it is collaborating with Range …

Teleste | January 25, 2011 | Press Release The agreement focuses on business solutions for cable and telecom operators Teleste is an international technology group specialising in broadband video and …

Bloomberg | January 26, 2011 | Anabela Reis and Joao Lima Portugal Telecom SGPS SA agreed to buy at least 22 percent of Telemar Norte Leste SA, Brazil’s biggest phone …

Rapid TV News | January 25, 2011 | Michelle Clancy A new consortium of partners is targeting the TV Everywhere concept for the uber-competitive Latin American television market, where entrenched players and a …

Bloomberg | January 25, 2011 | Mark Lee Tencent Holdings Ltd. said it has set up a 5 billion yuan ($759.3 million) fund to invest in technology firms, as China’s …

Google is “not happy” with current app sales in the Android marketplace according to Android platform manager Eric Chu speaking at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco yesterday.

With 200 million mobile users and counting, it really was about time for Facebook to try and cash in on the burgeoning mobile advertising bandwagon – something it appears ready to do after the acquisition of Seattle hyperlocal ad startup Rel8tion.

International Business Times | January 25, 2011 | Gabriel Perna International Business Machines’ ever-expanding cloud computing services will continue development in Asia. The company announced it is collaborating with Range …

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in …

The Nikkei | January 26, 2011 TOKYO (Nikkei)–KDDI Corp. (9433) is teaming up with 52 FM radio broadcasters to stream programming via the Internet to its smartphone and cellular phone …

Taipei Times | January 25, 2011 | Lisa Wang Chunghwa Telecom Co (CHT, 中華電信), the nation’s biggest telecoms carrier, yesterday launched its first BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM), …

Bangkok Post | January 24, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana TOT Plc may have to postpone its planned auction for its nationwide third-generation (3G) wireless broadband expansion in the wake of …

Wall Street Journal | January 25, 2011 | Juro Osawa TOKYO—Yahoo Japan Corp. said Tuesday its net profit for the October-December quarter rose 19% from a year earlier amid solid …

Wall Street Journal | January 25, 2011 | Jung-Ah Lee SEOUL (Dow Jones)–Brisk sales of smart phones and proceeds from a stake sale helped SK Telecom Co. (017670.SE) Tuesday post …