Tag: Money
NOT CES 2008: Mobile music revenues to hit a staggering $18 billion by 2012
And it’s all to the hottest and coolest new “thing” in the music world – paid for subscriptions, says telecoms analysts Juniper Research.
Mobile-friendly services like Universal’s Total Music, where you pay a set fee every month and get to listen to EVERY record it’s produced/churned out, will fuel this cash-mad boom, with iTunes obviously mopping up the rest of everyone’s money…
eBay overpaid for Skype (says Skype founder as he's flying his personal jet)
eBay may have acquired Skype in October of 2005, but it’s taken several years for stories to emerge that the $4.3 billion in stock and cash they paid for the VoIP company may’ve been a little too high.
And you’ll never guess who admitted to it – Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype. That’s it, Niklas, gloat two years later, once you’ve banked all the cash, atta boy. Apparently eBay feel they haven’t earned quite…
Survey shows people so attached to mobile phones, a million quid wouldn't make them give up
According to the latest installment of the Carphone Warehouse's "Mobile Life" research, the Great British public are so attached to their mobile phones that they wouldn't give them up – even for a million pounds.
The results come out of depriving 24 pour souls out of their mobile phones for a week, in order to understand how they shape our behaviour.
One in three people said they wouldn't give up their phone for a million pounds. 76% said they believed it was a social requirement to have a mobile phone, while 85% think that having a mobile phone is vital to maintaining their quality of life.
