What next for Nokia?
Mark Bridge writes:
Oh, how cheerful we were last Monday. Apple previewed iOS6, which will bring mobile tickets (and 200 other new features) to the iPhone and iPad this autumn. Vodafone cut the cost of using your phone in Europe with its flat-rate £3-per-day EuroTraveller deal and a few days later Three came up with its own ‘unlimited’ European data roaming.
Yet by the end of the week there were fewer smiles in the mobile industry.
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International supermarket group Tesco has taken control of the WE7 online music service for a purchase price of £10.8 million.
It follows Tesco’s acquisition of video service blinkbox last year and comes just a few days after rival supermarket Sainsbury’s bought an eBook retailer.
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Tesco is the latest company to introduce free WiFi. It’s expanding its recent WiFi trial to all Tesco Extra stores nationwide.
Customers who’ve registered a Tesco Clubcard will have unlimited access; other customers will be able to use the service free for 15 minutes every 24 hours.
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Telefonica Europe - the parent company of O2 UK - has released financial results for the first half of 2011.
It now has 57.3 million customers across its European operations, a 5% increase from last year - and it says revenue was up 2.2% year-on-year to 7.7 million Euro.
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Former Vodafone marketing man Lance Batchelor, who’s been CEO of Tesco Telecoms for the last two-and-a-half years, is to be the new Deputy Chief Executive of Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland. He’s leaving Tesco next month.
Mr Batchelor is already a non-executive director at Domino’s Pizza and will take up his executive responsibilities from 27th June 2011.
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