Venture-capital investments in the mobile sector are soaring, led by media and applications, commerce and payments and healthcare, according to a new report from Rutberg & Co.VC investment in mobile is at the largest level ($3 billion in the first half of the year)...
Allen, Texas-based Privus Mobile, a provider of caller ID services and mobile apps for smart phones, said today that the company is behind the world’s first national rollout of mobile caller ID for the nation of Vietnam.
Privus said they completed an agreement to make...
Following a 300% jump in traffic from tablets in the last six months, Google Inc.'s (GOOG) AdMob has launched a series of new ad formats tailor made for larger mobile devices. The HTML5-based ad formats are built for high-definition screens and will use features...
Eponymous video streaming website YouTube is today celebrating its sixth birthday, while mobile advertising platform AdMob is marking one year as a Google property. In separate blog posts today both the YouTube and AdMob teams shared some impressive numbers showing how the two services continue to grow.
ValueClick Inc. said it acquired mobile advertising network company Greystripe Inc. for about $70 million in cash. The purchase is the latest in a string of large companies buying independent companies to get a spot in the mobile advertising space.Google Inc. (GOOG) in late...
All the big brands know mobile gaming is hot right now, but it seems like no one is entirely sure how to leverage the appeal of these games into mobile advertising dollars.
Industry leaders iAd and AdMob offer text and banners ads that allow gamers to click on...
Google Inc. had big plans for AdMob when it acquired the mobile ad network for $750 million in stock in 2009 and now it's opening up the platform for Windows Phone 7.The company rolled out out a beta SDK (software development kit) for Microsoft...
Google Inc.'s (GOOG) AdMob is on a tear. The mobile ad network receives more than 2 billion ad requests daily, marking a fourfold increase from a year ago.More than 50,000 publishers are now working with the AdMob network and hundreds of mobile publishers...
Eden Rock Communications appointed Bruce Brda to its board of directors. Brda is a senior vice president and general manager for Motorola’s Networks business.Mojiva Inc., which owns the Mojiva mobile ad network and Mocean Mobile ad platform, named Tony Nethercutt general manager for North...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.October was a busy month for mergers and acquisitions in the mobile games sector. Ngmoco...
Lars Rasmussen, the engineer behind Google Maps and later Google Wave, has left Google for pastures new. Like a great number of ex-Googlers these days, those new pastures are Facebook.
The best things in life are free, but in order for them to stay that way, Google says it will allow developers to leverage its AdMob platform to stick interactive video ads inside Android apps.
Apple Inc. knows that much of the success of the iPhone comes thanks to the creative apps that developers have brought to the iPhone experience. In yet another attempt to keep developers in its good graces, the company announced today that it is making...
For a current market leader, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) finds itself behind its competitors in the smart phone space far too often.It only recently caught up with practically every other smart phone maker on the planet and released a modern browser of the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.We have yet to learn of the bottom-line successes of the iPhone 4 or Droid X launch...
Flashing his 750 million dollar smile on stage at MobileBeat 2010, Admob’s Omar Hamoui coyly discussed how it had felt to be courted by both Google and Apple, the potential implications of an Apple block on the firm’s mobile ads and what contingencies were in place to cope with that eventualit
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here.Mobile advertising has been discussed a potential revenue source for many...
Editor's Note: This special report on mobile marketing first appeared in the March Special Edition of RCR Wireless News. The special report is running in two parts. The first part of the report was made available Monday. Click here to read it. Australian...
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here.While most ecosystems represent a cohesive unit, the mobile marketing and...
It may be Monday morning, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is up bright and early with both Google and Apple in its sights for various antitrust related issues. The commission is looking into suing Google over the search engine giant's AdMob acquisition, in...
Editor's Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here. Although the National Venture Capital Association says it expects to see...
