The growing popularity of the internet has spurred it to capitalise on the patent.
It's the sort of battle familiar to Fleet Street veterans like Murdoch and Rothermere, who in recent times have had to grapple with the popularity of the Internet.
But the firm's profits have been hit by the growth of online rental services an, recently, the popularity of streaming films over the internet.
However, this online rental market became increasingly crowded with rival services, and now the popularity of streaming films over the internet is growing fast.
Like the rest of the mobile phone industry, Deutsche Telekom has been hit hard by the growing popularity of internet telephony, as peddled by eBay's (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) Skype, which has seen customers moving away from conventional technology.
One in three global purchases on eBay involve a mobile touch point, and the growing popularity of mobile devices as Internet access points could see the ratio go up in the coming years.
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The pace of business was slower, lack of internet popularity prevented hordes of competition in the space and, as a result recruiters could retain and form lasting relationships with clients easier.
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With the popularity of Internet radio ( iHeartRadio and TuneIn, for instance), streaming stations (Pandora, Slacker) and the myriad of other music options available on line like Rdio and Spotify, does this spell the end of the viability of FM radio?
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The introduction of "world phones, " which can toggle between the two most popular cellular technologies, and the growing popularity of VoIP services like Skype, which route calls over the Internet, have expanded options, but also complicated the process.
The popularity of Megaupload was so great that authorities claimed it accounted for four percent of the total Internet traffic.
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The huge popularity of cyber gaming is driven mainly by the vast numbers off people using broadband Internet connections.
Some people fear that the surging popularity of internet downloads will kill off record shops for good within a few years.
Well, this is the opposite of an internet popularity contest, an unpopularity contest if you will, and therefore EA should win handily.
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Investment Crowdfunding: Perks or reward-based crowdfunding arguably goes back hundreds of years though its popularity on the internet goes back only about five years.
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Surging popularity of services like Netflix, improving video quality on the internet and the improvement of mobile Internet speeds are a few key drivers behind the rapid growth expected in online media.
Hacked together by thousands of programmers cooperating across the Internet, these programs are growing in popularity.
DoCoMo's i-mode mobile internet service has surprised some analysts with the scale of its popularity and encouraged other operators worldwide over the prospects for next-generation mobile telecoms.
And with growing popularity of online shopping in the country, China has become a key market for e-commerce with internet firms.
Gangnam Style s the perfect cocktail of everything that we want from an Internet video, and its popularity continues to grow because it is absolutely bulletproof.
It has been increasingly gaining popularity among users in China and is estimated to be used by 30% of Internet users in the country by 2013.
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Eric Winsborrow of Sipera Systems says that the wave of threats has been brought on by VoIP's new popularity in the business world as well as the technology's growing connection to the Internet at large, instead of smaller networks.
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