Urban Airship Raises $5.4 Million To Build App Services
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Urban Airship, a Portland-based startup that provides services, like notifications and in-app purchases to third party application makers, h… Read more »
Glu’s Revenues Fall As It Gears Up To Launch New Game Titles
Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) reported today that Q3 revenues fell again in the third quarter, and will likely continue to slide in the fourth qua… Read more »
Electronic Arts Says Digital Sales Overall Grow But Mobile Flatlines
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Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), which has been investing heavily in its digital business, posted another jump in digital sales for the quarter… Read more »
Motricity’s Q3 Revenues Up 35 Percent Over Past Year
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Bellevue-based Motricity’s stock has skyrocketed 172 percent in the past two months, bolstered by big projects with new international carrie… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Keyboard War; TeleNav; Skype IPO; PlayStation & BOKU Rumors
– New virtual keyboard approaches: Just when you think there will be a face-off between Swype and Nuance, which are both creating alternati… Read more »
Nokia Expands Services To Nigeria For Growth Opportunity
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be struggling to keep pace with competitors like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in developed countries, bu… Read more »
Updated: Struggling Symbian Gets A €22 Million Injection From Europe
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Handset makers other than Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be deserting Symbian and Nokia’s recently-renewed commitment to the mobile OS may turn out t… Read more »
T-Mobile Pairs New Data Prices With Four Android Phones Under $100
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Ahead of the holiday season, T-Mobile USA is offering a combination of cheaper data plans and inexpensive Android devices to attract first-t… Read more »
Twitter Starts Bringing Ads To Users’ Streams
When Twitter introduced its ad platform back in April, the company said ads would eventually show up in a user’s stream. That’s finally happ… Read more »
Reporting On The Mobile Device Market In Q3 And The Future Of Tablets
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Is Apple outselling RIM? (NSDQ: RIMM) Is Android now bigger than Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) And, how many tablets will be sold by 2015? These are t… Read more »
Apple Feels Touchy Over Smartphone Patents; Sues Motorola
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In a lawsuit Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has filed against Motorola (NYSE: MOT), it alleges that the smartphones Motorola builds on Google’s Android… Read more »
Most Publications That Have A ‘Mobile Strategy’ Really Don’t
Josh Marshall is editor and publisher of political news network TPM Media LLC. He wrote this look at mobile strategy for Talking Points Memo… Read more »
Mobile Bits: HTC’s Brand; Verizon iPhone; T-Mobile Tab; FT & Amazon Apps
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– HTC’s ad campaign pays off: Another story about how HTC has created a brand out of a no-name white-label smartphone maker. The more inter… Read more »
AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Leaves Google For Personal Reasons
Sometimes founders are obligated to stay for a year or two after their company has been acquired, and sometimes things unravel a lot faster… Read more »
Apple Becomes Fourth-Largest Phone Maker; Grabs Greatest Share Of Profits
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) broke into the top five largest phone-makers worldwide last quarter for the first time ever, but more importantly, it als… Read more »
We’re Giving Away A Gift Certificate
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We want to make sure we’re providing you with the content and tools that are most useful to you. To help us get it right, we’… Read more »
Understanding Motorola’s Plan For Winning The Smartphone Market
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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Mobility’s CEO Sanjay Jha characterizes his job half-done when it comes to turning around the struggling handset maker.… Read more »
Comedy Central Mobile Goes To DC With Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
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Comedy Central is covering all the promo bases for the Rally To Restore Sanity and the March to Keep Fear Alive, including the ultimate acce… Read more »
Apple ‘Clarifies’ Device-To-Device iTunes Rental Limits: Don’t Do It
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The newest version of the iTunes Store Terms and Conditions from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) carries this warning: “We have clarified that content re… Read more »
Industry Moves: Taptu; OMVC; Adfonic; WHERE
– Taptu: Mitch Lazar has been upped to CEO from president and COO. He was most recently managing director of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Mobile Euro… Read more »
Two New Mobile Payment Options, Two Entirely Different Approaches
Both Sprint (NYSE: S) and AT&T (NYSE: T) have announced two new mobile payments services this week that aren’t anything alike.
Sprint’s mob… Read more »
The Top 10 Biggest Spenders On Mobile Advertising
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The entertainment industry spent the most on mobile advertising in the third quarter, according to Millennial Media, which reported the top… Read more »
Motorola Rebound Taking Place With First Quarter Of Growth In Four Years
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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. The Schaumburg, Ill.-based handset maker shipped 3.8 million smart… Read more »
Our Tweets From 10.27.2010
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BlackBerry Fund Consolidates; Plans Silicon Valley Office And New Fund
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund today is restructuring the way it operates in order to focus exclusively on mobile investments. In addition, it… Read more »
Hey, Spotify Sceptics – International Is Hard To Do
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Naysayers continue expressing suspicion Spotify will launch in the U.S.. But Spotify’s not alone in discovering the challenge of an overseas… Read more »
Kiha Raises $20 Million From Paul Allen To Build A Mobile Assistant
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Seattle-based Kiha Software, which has raised $20 million from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen, launched Aro Mobile, a product… Read more »
Sprint Fails To Wow Investors Despite Some Gains
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Sprint (NYSE: S) had good things to say about in the third quarter: It added more subscribers than it had since 2006, and reported its first… Read more »
uCIRRUS Raises $4 Million For Enterprise Applications
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San Mateo, Calif.-based uCIRRUS has raised $4 million from SK telecom ventures, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) Ventures and ATA Ventures. The company… Read more »
Our Tweets From 10.26.2010
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NHL Video No Longer Only On Verizon: ‘He Shoots, He Scores’ On The iPad
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Deals for exclusive mobile video rights to Verizon Wireless and Bell Mobility made sense for the National Hockey League in 2007. Now they ar… Read more »
PayPal Expands Mobile Payments; Pushes Into The Sale Of Digital Goods
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Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer co… Read more »
AmEx Snags Two More Execs From Sprint Nextel For Big Mobile Payments Push
In an effort to beef up its alternative payments efforts, American Express has picked up two additional Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel executives.… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Microsoft’s Tag; Zynga’s Value; Garmin Phones; T-Mobile Tether
– Microsoft’s 2-D barcodes: Microsoft’s Tag product, which uses 2-D barcode technology in marketing campaigns, says 1 billion Tags have bee… Read more »
B&N Unveils Nook Color; Claims ‘Largest Digital Newsstand’
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) officially upped its e-reader challenge this afternoon during a press conference at its Union Square store. The c… Read more »
What The Nook Color Means For Amazon, Sony
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Today, amid the kind of rumor and speculation that is more typical of a Silicon Valley announcement, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) unveiled its… Read more »
eBay Invests In Appcelerator As Part Of A $9 Million Round
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Mountain View, Calif.-based Appcelerator has raised $9 million in funding to help build out its mobile commerce offering as part of its plat… Read more »
Photobucket Lays Off 11; Promotes Tom Munro To CEO
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Photobucket, the photo-sharing site owned in part by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), has moved its mobile development offices from Seattle to its of… Read more »
Our Tweets From 10.25.2010
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Adobe: 10 Million Flash Installs Soon; AIR Extending To Three Screens
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) says its Flash player on mobile phones has exceeded its own expectations by achieving two million downloads on Android de… Read more »
