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Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising

By Ingrid Lunden Feb. 3, 2012, 9:20pm 1 Comment

Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing mass… Read More »

Carrier IQ Responds More To Privacy Allegations, But Many Questions Remain

By Ingrid Lunden Dec. 2, 2011, 3:32pm Comments Off

As more detail unfolds of companies swearing off any involvement with Carrier IQ (and some admitting using it for diagnostics) amid allegati… Read More »

McAfee: Android Biggest Malware Target Today, Yet Symbian Still Tops It

By Ingrid Lunden Nov. 21, 2011, 8:13pm 1 Comment

With 550,000 activations per day, and 200 million activations to-date, Android is fast shaping up to be the world’s biggest OS, but that gro… Read More »

Mobile Ad Firm 4INFO Names Tim Jenkins CEO. Zaw Thet Now 'Chief Evangelist'

By Ingrid Lunden Nov. 11, 2011, 10:54pm Comments Off

So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company… Read More »

Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spins Out Its AdHaven Platform

By Ingrid Lunden Oct. 28, 2011, 1:03am Comments Off

More VC money getting invested into one more independent mobile ad network: 4INFO has raised $14 million in funding in a round led by Paul A… Read More »

Is A Popular App Sniffing Users’ Text Messages?

By Jeff John Roberts Oct. 19, 2011, 4:26am 1 Comment

Millions of people are embracing free mobile messaging services like WhatsApp and Kik as a way to avoid outrageous carrier charges for texti… Read More »

New Service Gives Even The Most Basic Mobile Users Access To Facebook

By Ingrid Lunden Oct. 5, 2011, 9:43pm Comments Off

Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s site… Read More »

Telefonica Seeks Social Media Mojo With Twitter And Layar Integration

By Ingrid Lunden Sep. 22, 2011, 3:54pm Comments Off

Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), the multinational operator with mobile networks spanning across Europe and Latin America, is now fully focused on sq… Read More »

Big Money For SMS-Based Social Media: India’s SMS GupShup Takes $10 Million

By Ingrid Lunden Aug. 31, 2011, 6:00pm Comments Off

With a lot of the focus in the mobile universe on Android, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and what is happening in the smartphone segment, it’s easy to… Read More »

Mobile Lowdown 8-31-11: Amazon Tablet; China iOS; Apple/Wikileaks; FilmOn

By Ingrid Lunden Aug. 31, 2011, 3:42pm Comments Off

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Amazon could have two sizes of tablet in mind for a launch: a seven-inch mod… Read More »

comScore: Just Over One-Third Of U.S. Consumers Use Smartphones

By Ingrid Lunden Aug. 31, 2011, 2:56am Comments Off

Everyone likes to talk about the boom in smartphone use, but the reality is that even in the most advanced markets, there is still a long wa… Read More »

AT&T Forcing New Customers Onto Unlimited SMS Plan Or Pay-Per-Message

By Tom Krazit Aug. 18, 2011, 8:35pm Comments Off

Even as companies like Facebook and Twitter change the way people think about sending short messages, the SMS text message remains very popu… Read More »

Telefonica’s O2 Litmus Fails The Litmus Test; App Effort Closes Down

Don’t Lose That Number: Why Mobile Communications Is Still About Digits

Graphic: The Osama Bin Laden Effect In Mobile

Mobile Lowdown 04-28-11: AT&T/T-Mobile; Apple iCloud; Buongiorno

TeePee Games Gets Strategic Backing From Turner Broadcasting Europe