2ergo Buys Mobile Ticket And Coupon Company
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UK-based 2ergo, a mobile marketing company, has acquired UK-based Activemedia Technologies Group, which is focused on the mobile ticketing a… Read more »
Wireless Continues To Be A Question Mark For Cable
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With all the major cable operators in the U.S., rolling out wireless voice and internet services, the question remains: are their customer r… Read more »
France’s TF1 iPhone App Offers Live, On Demand TV
French terrestrial broadcaster TF1 has launched an iPhone app allowing users to watch live and on demand TV either via wifi connection or 3G… Read more »
Interview: Blyk, Orange Chiefs Plan To Sell Ads Together
Orange UK says it will form a single mobile ad sales team with Blyk, which has now abandoned its ad-funded virtual mobile network (MVNO) mod… Read more »
Interview: Blyk Targeting US Operators After Shifting Direction
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Europe’s Blyk is rebooting its American ambitions after ditching its original MVNO model in favour of carrier partnerships. The startup had… Read more »
Earnings: Verizon Net Income Falls, But Beats Expectations By A Hair
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Verizon’s attempts to rein in costs only went so far in Q2, as the company posted profits of $1.48 billion ($0.52 per share), a 22 percent d… Read more »
Spotify Waves iPhone Buzz Under Apple’s Nose
Streamed music service Spotify is trying to gain Apple’s acceptance for its iPhone app by simultaneously whetting users’ appetites and fla… Read more »
Ericsson Pays $1.13 Billion To Win Nortel Assets At Auction
Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the largest wireless infrastructure company in the world, has agreed to pay $1.13 billion in cash to acquire parts of… Read more »
Report: Cellphone Forecast Gets Rosier For 2009
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After strong second-quarter handset sales were reported by LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung this week, ABI Research is revising its forecast for… Read more »
SpinVox Investor: ‘It’s A Nice Problem To Have’
A Dragon’s Den investor who is one of SpinVox’s key advisers has come out batting for the under-fire voice-to-text firm. Asked about outcry… Read more »
Earnings: Vodafone Declares iPhone Interest; Profits Rise On Asia Growth
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) isn’t alone in wanting to prise away O2′s exclusive rights to distribute the iPhone in the UK — but it is shouting the… Read more »
Mobile Search Startup ChaCha Raises Another $4 Million
Mobile search firm ChaCha has raised $4 million of a $5 million round, according to an SEC filing. We’ve reached out to the company to get m… Read more »
Earnings Call: AT&T’s Dependence On iPhone Increases; Adds 2.4 Million iPhones In Q2
AT&T (NYSE: T) activated 2.4 million iPhones during its second quarter, a majority of the subscribers likely coming in the final 11 days aft… Read more »
Physicians Interactive Buys Mobile Medical Info Firm Skyscape
Mobile medical information company Skyscape has been sold to Physicians Interactive. Skyscape’s service lets healthcare workers look up spec… Read more »
Earnings: AT&T Profits Fall 16 Percent; Wireless Subs Grow, Along With Related Costs
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While AT&T (NYSE: T) is clearly benefiting from the growth in wireless subscribers, the costs are also adding up. The company’s Q2 profits f… Read more »
Blyk Gets First Carrier Deals; Vodafone Confirmed, Orange Next?
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European ad-supported free mobile service Blyk has landed its first business with mobile operators, after deciding to shelve its own plans t… Read more »
Earnings: Qualcomm’s Stock Falls 4 Percent On Next Quarter’s Outlook
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Forget about how Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) performed in the third quarter, investors were already lamenting the wireless chip company’s fourth-q… Read more »
What It Means To Microsoft If HTC Expects Google To Dominate Its Handset Portfolio
By next year, more than 50 percent of phones shipped by HTC will be based on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android operating system, increasing fr… Read more »
FlyCast Raises $2.1 Million For Mobile Radio
Radio streaming service FlyCast has raised $2.1 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. A spokesman would not say who had… Read more »
Interview: Christina Domecq, CEO, Spinvox (Pt 2): Cashflow-Positive In 90 Days
SpinVox CEO Christina Domecq knows August will be the toughest month, but says upcoming income from recently-inked Latin America contracts w… Read more »
Vodafone Gets BT’s Irish Fixed-Line Customers For
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) will become the Republic of Ireland’s second-biggest fixed line ISP with a 15 percent market share after it signed a de… Read more »
MLBAM’s Bob Bowman Tells Jim Cramer: No IPO ‘For A Long, Long Time’
CNBC’s Jim Cramer rarely does Mad Money interviews with execs of companies that aren’t public but the MLB.TV fan and subscriber made an exce… Read more »
Industry Moves: Yahoo Mobile’s Chief Scientist Marc Davis Latest Exec To Leave
Yahoo’s Chief Scientist for Mobile and VP of Early Stage Products Marc Davis has left the company, TechCrunch reports.
A spokesperson has… Read more »
Korean Game-Maker Gamevil Files For IPO
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Korean mobile-game maker Gamevil will start trading on the Korean stock exchange, KOSDAQ, starting July 30. The initial public offering is n… Read more »
Meredith Acquires Stake In Mobile Marketing Firm The Hyperfactory
Women’s mag publisher Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) has taken a 19.9 percent stake in mobile marketing firm The Hyperfactory. Terms of the deal… Read more »
Visa Is Testing Mobile Payment Alerts For Cardholder Security
Another take on mobile payments – payment validation. Visa is trialling a system in the UK that will send SMS or email confirmation of card… Read more »
Yahoo’s Home Page Makeover Includes New Links Between Mobile And Desktop Sites
Along with the major Yahoo.com overhaul that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is set to announce Tuesday, the company is also playing up additional tie-in… Read more »
Namco Launches New Division Dedicated To Apple’s iPhone
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Mobile-game maker Namco, which is known for producing the retro arcade game classic Pac-Man, has formed a division within the company Apple… Read more »
Bets Being Placed As To Which Mobile Operating System Will Fail — But It’s Too Early To Tell
Smartphone competition is intensifying with at least six major handset manufacturers and mobile operating systems vying for only 13 percent… Read more »
Interview: Christina Domecq, CEO, Spinvox (Pt 1): Managing Through The Crunch
Our story last week, that much-talked-about voice-to-text firm SpinVox, which got $100 million funding last year, was having to offer staff… Read more »
AOL CEO’s First 100 Days: Our Coverage
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Tim Armstrong is 100 days into his reign at AOL (NYSE: TWX), and is using that milestone to roll out his business plan to AOL employees arou… Read more »
Readius Rollable Display Firm Polymer Vision Goes Under
Polymer Vision, the Southampton, England, company that was making a connected ereader whose screen can fold up has, well, folded, ThisIsHamp… Read more »
Interview: AOL’s Armstrong: ‘Putting Together A Clear Mobile Strategy’
Where does mobile fit into AOL’s plans as the company starts anew one more time under one more chairman and CEO? Everywhere, Tim Armstrong i… Read more »
Public Radio Dangerously Close To Making Public Radio Obsolete
The Public Radio Exchange has just released the 2.0 version of its iPhone app, which aggregates almost all the public radio stations in the… Read more »
Aloqa Raises $1.5 Million In First Round For Location-Aware Mobile Service
Mobile startup Aloqa has raised $1.5 million in a first round of funding from Wellington Partners and several angel investors. Concurrent wi… Read more »
Report: The Top 10 Advertisers In Mobile
The entertainment industry is currently spending more money on mobile advertising than any other segment, according to a report released tod… Read more »
Mobile Marketing Bits: SAP Tests Banners; SMS, Bluetooth And Beer; Pizza Hut App; Mobile TV Revenues
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Mobile banners: Software company SAP turned to mobile display ads as a way to reach C-level execs, who are commonly early adopters and are f… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Dopplr, ShopStyle.co.uk, FT.com iPhone Apps
A rash of new iPhone apps…
– Dopplr: The business travel social net has taken its Social Atlas to the iPhone, price free, putting it up… Read more »
Earnings: Nokia Cancels Hopes Of Growing Market Share
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is scaling back its earlier target of a 2009 increase in its mobile market share, to instead be flat compared with ’08. Th… Read more »
GetJar Fights Back With App Stats, New Logo
Responding to Apple’s announcement it served 1.5 billion iPhone app downloads in its first year, multi-platform mobile app store GetJar has… Read more »
