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...As well as complaints from developers, Apple is also facing an antitrust investigation into the App Store by the European Commission following complaints by Spotify and e-reader company Kobo, in addition...
...As it squares up to fight complaints from Spotify, Kobo and now Epic Games, Apple risks losing the long-term war, even if it wins its short-term battles....
...Developers led by the music streaming service Spotify, e-reader Kobo, lost items finder Tile and email app Hey have made complaints that Apple stifles competition and competes with app makers on an unlevel...
...The first concerns the operations of Apple’s App Store following complaints from Spotify, the music-streaming service, and Kobo, the ebook business....
...Its investigation follows a complaint from Spotify and then the ereader company Kobo about how Apple takes a 30 per cent commission on every subscription signed up through the App Store in the first year...
...Brussels was swayed in part by Canadian ereader group Kobo, which would like to let users conveniently buy books through its app — but avoids doing so because that would mean giving away nearly a third of...
...The addition of e-books to Walmart’s online store in the US will be made through Rakuten Kobo e-book devices, which compete against Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook device....
...The addition of ebooks to Walmart’s online store in the US will be made through Rakuten Kobo, which compete with Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and offer access to almost 6m titles....
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...In March, Rakuten, the Japanese ecommerce group whose Kobo ereader competes with Kindle and iBooks, paid $410m to acquire Overdrive, a US-based distributor of ebooks and audiobooks....
...Rakuten, which owns ereader maker Kobo, has bought London-based Fits.me, a five-year-old company whose early backers included the Entrepreneurs Fund, part of the Cofra Group that was born out of the C&A...
...Rakuten, which owns Kobo, the ereader maker, has been on a broader acquisition spree, including messaging service Viber and stakes in scrapbooking site Pinterest and taxi service Lyft....
...Kobo, the Canadian ereader company that is a rival to Amazon’s Kindle and which Rakuten acquired for $315m in 2012, is close to turning a profit, he added....
...It bought Canada’s Kobo, an ebooks business, for $315m in 2012 and later that year acquired Wuaki.tv, a Europe-based video-on-demand and streaming service....
...It bought Kobo, a Canadian ebooks business, for $315m in 2012, and later that year acquired Wuaki.tv, a European video-on-demand and streaming service, and Buy.com in 2010....
...Israeli instant messaging provider Viber for $900m 2013 Buys online video platform Viki for an undisclosed sum 2012 Acquires Wuaki.tv, a European video-on-demand and streaming service 2012 Buys Canada’s Kobo...
...This might not capsize the major ereader manufacturers – Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo, which have all been moving into the tablet market....
...However, Kobo’s point is that it has more in common with the traditional medium than it does not....
...FT Edits: Decoding Big Data is available on ebook stores from Amazon (US and UK), Apple (US and UK), Kobo, and Barnes & Noble....
...FT Edits: The Amazon Economy is available on ebook stores from Apple (US and UK), Kobo, Barnes & Noble and, yes, Amazon (US and UK)....
...Last week, Japanese-owned Kobo also launched its own ebook reader across Brazil’s Livraria Cultura bookshops....
...You can download it for £2.49 ((€2.99, $3.99) from Amazon, Apple iBookstore, Google, Kobo and ebooks.com....
...The reason Kobo is so strong is they use social very well. We are going to do similar things between our ecommerce site and Pinterest....
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