Mobile Content Bits: Google Latitude; Flo TV; AMV/Cherry Adult Content
– Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Latitude: Google’s mapping/presence app has finally made its way to Apple’s App Store, after initially getting barred… Read more »
Leaked Data On Verizon Phone Sales: Bad News For RIM, Or Verizon?
BlackBerry and its manufacturer RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) had a little boost of confidence the other week from some figures that indicated that in th… Read more »
Confirmed: Nokia’s Navteq Has Bought Crowdsourced Traffic App Trapster
Update: A spokesperson for Navteq has confirmed that the digital mapping division of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has bought Reach Unlimited Corporatio… Read more »
UK’s O2, Everything Everywhere (Orange and T-Mobile) Prep For Job Cuts
Not great news around the holidays, but at least some of the consultations won’t begin until January: UK mobile operators O2 and Everything… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Sprint/Nextel; Samsung/Bada; HTC Targets
– Sprint/Nextel: Is Sprint (NYSE: S) throwing out the baby with the bathwater? The mobile operator is considering a plan to ditch the Nexte… Read more »
Future Sees iPad As A Bookazine Vehicle For Now
As magazine publishers unfold the tablet opportunity, Future is going large, but not yet going long.
It’s unveiled 14 new titles for iPad,… Read more »
MobiTV On Track To Deliver 1,400 Events In 2010, But What Does That Mean?
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Nielsen earlier this week gave us some insight into how much mobile video is being watched: more than ever before, but still not very much,… Read more »
Internetq: UK IPO Pegs Mobile Marketing Company At $50 Million
Internetq, a mobile marketing company that works with operators, media companies and brands in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, ha… Read more »
Virgin Media, PushLife Offer iTunes Syncing On Android+RIM, But Not iPhones
Virgin Media has yet to go commercial on an all-you-can-eat music service it announced way back in June 2009, but it is still forging ahead… Read more »
Our Tweets From 12.09.2010
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Men’s Health Publisher Rodale Adds New Mobile Head, Aims For Premium Apps
Rodale, the health and wellness publisher behind magazines like Men’s Health and books like Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, has appointed M… Read more »
Survey: iPad Newspaper Apps Could Slash Print Subscriptions
photo: Reynolds Journalism Institute
Wasn’t the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than… Read more »
Zynga’s David Ko On Mobile M&A, Future Platforms, And Google
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Zynga, the darling of online social games with 45 million daily active users, has been a relatively late entrant in the mobile space, with i… Read more »
Analyst: Apple’s Closed iAd System Gives Android Room To Grab Market Share
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As mobile ad spending is becoming a more serious business, Apple”s combination of “high pricing and lack of transparency” appears to be a st… Read more »
Howard Stern’s New Five-Year Deal With Sirius Adds Exclusive Mobile Rights
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Just the other day, Howard Stern was lashing out at a Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) exec in the kind of language you can only get away on satellite… Read more »
Mobile Streams Sells Ringtones.com For $750k
The ringtones market ain’t what it used to be, but there’s life in it yet: Mobile Streams, a mobile content outfit part-owned by Liberty Med… Read more »
Yahoo Redoubles On Mobile: Local Push, New Ads, And New Stats On Mobile Use
Yahoo’s story in mobile advertising hasn’t exactly been a zinger of late: figures from IDC published earlier in the week note that as the mo… Read more »
Our Tweets From 12.08.2010
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Industry Moves: Verizon; Apple; TeePee; Flash Networks
– Verizon: Anthony Melone has been promoted to the role of CTO for Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ). He had been the CTO of mobile divisio… Read more »
Mobile Video On The Rise, But Still Only A Fraction Of All Usage
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has called it a day with its Flo TV mobile TV venture, gaining only 1 million sign-ups – but not necessarily permanent… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Zong/Android; Groupon/JiWire; Gowalla/Sundance
– Zong/Android: The mobile payments service is available now for developers to add into apps for Android mobile platform. Zong connects wit… Read more »
Orange CEO On Competing With Google, The iPad And More
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Today, Orange’s CEO Stephane Richard sat down for a Q&A at the LeWeb conference in Paris, where he talked about the iPad, smartphone sales,… Read more »
Orange Launches Partner Connect To Drive More Apps To Its Store
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Today, Orange in Europe launched Orange Partner Connect, a “one-stop shop” for developers to submit apps to the operator’s own country-speci… Read more »
‘Social Driving App’ Waze Raises $25 Million In Series B Round
More activity in the area of location-aware, social apps: Waze, an app that builds up driving and navigation data by crowd sourcing informat… Read more »
App Analytics/Discovery Startup Flurry Raises $15 Million In Series C Round
The proliferation of apps is giving rise to a number of companies trying to make sense of the noise, and in some cases the latter companies… Read more »
Google Shows Off Its Chrome Web Store
Six months after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) first said it was developing an online store that would be built into its Google Chrome web browser and… Read more »
CNBC Brings Its ‘Real-Time’ Data To The iPad — Paid Products Coming Soon
As its rivals look to buttress their existing “real-time” data businesses with separate digital products, CNBC (NYSE: GE) has released its f… Read more »
Mobile Bytes: iPad 2; BlackBerry PlayBook; Helio Class-Action
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– iPad 2: The iPad 2 will start getting shipped by manufacturer Foxconn Electronics in late February 2011, according to reports from Taiwan… Read more »
Gourmet Live App Puts ‘A La Carte’ Items On The Menu
Nearly four months after hitting the iTunes Store, Condé Nast’s Gourmet Live free iPad app is now selling 99 cent back issues and “special… Read more »
DIY-App Developer Mobile Roadie Takes Diddy And Taylor Swift To BlackBerry
Mobile Roadie has made a name for itself providing a platform for content owners to publish mobile apps for Android and iOS devices without… Read more »
Mobile Advertising: MoPub Gets Seed Funding, Viacast Launches
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is disproportionately ahead of everyone else in when it comes to mobile advertising, but given that only about three per… Read more »
Our Tweets From 12.06.2010
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Loopt Offers Auto Check-Ins For Those Facing ‘Check-In Fatigue’
Check-in apps have come on thick and fast in the mobile world: there are those that let you track where you are going (the Foursquares and G… Read more »
France’s Newpapers Team Up On Paid-Kiosk Initiative
Eight of France’s leading newspapers publishers and Orange have teamed to form a consortium aiming to jointly monetise electronic platforms… Read more »
Google: Gingerbread For The Holidays, Served On A Curved Nexus S
The details are now official: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched today its newest device, the Nexus S, and the latest Android update, Gingerbr… Read more »
Google eBookstore Finally Opens For Business
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After a series of delays, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore is finally open for business. The initial plans for June 2009 called for 500,00… Read more »
Mobile Discovery: Shazam Finds 100m Users. Has It Found Money, Too?
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A milestone reached by mobile music discovery service Shazam: the company says it has come good on its promise and reached 100,000 users, pi… Read more »
Google Chrome Announcement: Netbook Likely. What About Tablets?
Update: Read our report about the event, in which Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched a Chrome app store, here. Original post: At a time when every… Read more »
Nokia’s N8, Windows Phone 7 In Europe: Slow Burners or Burned Out?
Not a great stat if you’re a Windows or Nokia (NYSE: NOK) fan in the Old World and are hoping for some momentum behind your favorite platfor… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Angry Birds; HTC Antennas; France 4G; Motorola/Apple Patents
photo: Rovio
– Angry Birds: Developers Rovio are expecting to make $1 million per month in advertising from the free, ad-supported Android version of th… Read more »
