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Reuters:Spotify offers music play button for websites

“YouTube got to where it is today because people are able to embed YouTube videos easily in any website,” Giles Cottle, principal analyst at research firm Informa Telecoms & Media, wrote in a note. “Any web developer will tell you that, in an online world, you have to offer and bring content to people where… Read more

Giles Cottle

Financial Times: Spotify extends access to external sites

David Karp, chief executive officer of Tumblr, described the ability for its users to include music on their blogs via Spotify as “revolutionary”. Giles Cottle, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, described the launch as “a hugely important step” for Spotify.

Giles Cottle

Financial Times: BlackBerrys flourish in the malls of Lagos

  The likes of Samsung and Nokia have strong presences in Nigeria, and are promoting their smartphones. But Thécla Mbongue, senior research analyst at Informa, says it is the Android smartphones from Chinese handset-makers, sold by the local mobile networks for about $120, that are more likely to eat away at RIM’s market share.

Thecla Mbongue

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