Reports point to $150 billion incremental opportunity in cloud gaming for telcos
Telcos will soon have the opportunity to bundle Xbox packages into subscription as a result of Microsoft’s recent partnership with Bango, a global platform for data-driven commerce.
By leveraging the Bando platform, Microsoft will...
Carrier billing has been available for nearly two decades as an alternative payment option, largely unnoticed yet growing in usage and value. But the recent announcements by Amazon, KDDI and NTT DoCoMo that carrier billing is now available to Japanese customers in the Amazon...
Another big contract for mobile payments and analytics company Bango. The company that already has Facebook, BlackBerry App World, Windows Phone Store and Amazon as customers announced it has signed a global framework agreement with Telefónica Digital.
The partnership aims to create “an enhanced direct-to-bill...
ZTE Corp. signed framework agreements to purchase semiconductor components from five U.S. technology vendors. The deals are valued at $3 billion. The three-year purchase agreements are with Qualcomm Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Freescale Semiconductor, Altera Corp. and Broadcom Corp.Bharti Airtel announced a strategic partnership...
The mobile information superhighway is in need of some serious maintenance. That's the take-away from a new Yankee Group evaluation of 32 consumer-facing mobile Web sites. The market research firm scored the sites on a scale of one to 100, grading them on 25...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The world of off-deck content may be moving away from premium SMS and onto the wireless Web.Bango this week said it has seen its WAP transactions in the United States increase fourfold in the last three months as carriers increasingly look...
Bango expanded its mobile analytics offering, adding a tool that allows publishers to track the number of unique visitors to their wireless Web sites.A hosted service available free to publishers who generate fewer than 100,000 page visits per month, Bango Analytics 3.0 enables developers...
AdMob joined the mobile analytics field, unveiling a free tool that allows advertisers and publishers to track traffic and measure the effectiveness of wireless ad campaigns.The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup said the offering delivers site-performance metrics such as unique visitors, duration of visit, page...
Bango is moving beyond wireless transactions and into the world of mobile marketing.The U.K.-based firm, which specializes in off-deck activity, launched an offering designed to allow mobile advertisers to track the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns. Bango Analytics counts the number of unique visitors...
Performing artists are increasingly looking to mobile to prop up flagging recorded music revenues. And record labels are increasingly being left out of the loop. Digital offerings such as ringtones and online, full-track downloads have failed to offset "freefalling CD sales," according to a...
Bango unveiled a link that allows users to send online content to their mobile phones.The Bango Button was created for blogs and social networking sites as a way to bridge the gap between computers and mobile phones. A user can place the icon on...
Bango is the latest outfit to jump on the mobile advertising bandwagon, unveiling a service designed to track the effectiveness of wireless marketing campaigns.The developer of direct-to-consumer infrastructure launched Bango Vision, an extension of its storefront technology that tracks users' demographic information, browsing habits...
Like a tag-team partner vaulting over the ropes to get at an opponent, Total Nonstop Action has joined the mobile battleground.The upstart wrestling franchise last week outlined a comprehensive wireless initiative, unveiling plans to launch TNA-branded ringtones, wallpapers, text alerts and wrestler-penned blogs. The...
Amp'd Mobile has tapped Amdocs' Qpass digital commerce platform to handle its off-deck content business.The mobile virtual network operator said it will use Amdocs' centralized digital commerce platform to support third-party offerings such as text messaging, chat, voting, personalization content and other applications. The...
CAMBRIDGE, England—Shares of Bango plc faltered after the company said it was unlikely to become cash flow-positive this year. Bango, which provides technology for off-deck content delivery and billing, reported $8.6 million in revenues for the six-month period ending Sept. 30, up 43 percent...
LOS ANGELES--Bango hopes to leverage its position in the off-deck content market space by connecting mobile marketers and publishers. The U.K.-based firm unveiled Ad-LaunchPad, a platform designed to help content providers join forces with advertising companies. Publishers can use the offering to select from...
NEW YORK—Bango announced it has partnered with MTV Networks U.K. & Ireland to provide its browse-and-buy technology for MTV's new WAP site. The MTV WAP site is designed to promote and sell digital content to users. Bango's technology streamlines the process for users to...
NEW YORK—Bango said it has partnered with MTV Networks U.K. & Ireland to provide its browse and buy technology for MTV’s new WAP Web site. The MTV WAP site is designed to interact with viewers to promote and sell digital content to users. Bango’s...
The company working to establish a mobile-exclusive Internet domain is hoping to lure customers by extending its initial registration period. DotMobi-also known as mTLD, or mobile Top Level Domain Ltd.-said it will extend the trademark sunrise registration by a month, allowing companies to lay...
DUBLIN, Ireland—The company working to establish a mobile-exclusive Internet domain is hoping to lure customers by extending its initial registration period. Dotmobi—also known as mTLD, or mobile Top Level Domain—said it will extend the trademark registration period by a month, allowing companies to lay...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—Off-deck wireless content provider Bango reported increased quarterly revenues but offered a lowered forecast for its non-U.K. businesses. The direct-to-consumer technology company said it generated $14.19 million during the quarter ending March 31, more than doubling revenues during the year-earlier period. But...
NEW YORK—Off-deck technology company Bango said it plans to power a direct-to-consumer mobile video offering from World Wrestling Entertainment. WWE will offer at least 75 made-for-mobile video shorts including news updates, athlete interviews and the "Slam of the Week." The subscription-based service is to...
SEATTLE–Hearst Magazines is going both on- and off-deck to offer ringtones, images, daily horoscopes and editorial content from Cosmopolitan, Seventeen and CosmoGirl to wireless users. Hearst is teaming with Volantis to targeting 12- to 34-year-old females with its offerings, which will be available through...
Like European missionaries of centuries past, Bango came to U.S. shores last week preaching the gospel. The Cambridge, U.K.-based company held events in Southern California and New York to tout the benefits of branded, off-deck mobile portals. Wireless operators, mobile marketers and technology companies...
