There's a "serendipity of showing up in a city and booking a hotel at a moment's notice," says Sam Shank, CEO of the HotelTonight. Most travelers in that last-minute predicament probably wouldn't describe their experience as serendipitous, but this new mobile travel startup wants...
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...
Motricity Inc. (MOTR) has inked a deal to acquire Adenyo for $100 million in cash and stock.The Toronto-based mobile marketing, advertising and analytics firm has a stable of clients, including major brands and media companies, that Motricity will likely try to leverage. But the...
Velti plc is going public and plans to generate more than $150 million in the process. The mobile marketing and advertising company has filed plans for an initial public offering, pricing 12,518,008 shares at $12 each.Velti operates an online platform for mobile marketing and...
Wall Street Journal | January 26, 2011 | Yun-Hee Kim
HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--More than a year after Google Inc. threatened to pull out of China, throwing into doubt its growth plans in the world's biggest Internet market, the U.S. search giant says it remains...
PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release
PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...
PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release
PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...
The Nikkei | January 26, 2011
TOKYO (Nikkei)--KDDI Corp. (9433) is teaming up with 52 FM radio broadcasters to stream programming via the Internet to its smartphone and cellular phone customers.
The Lismo Wave service will be launched Wednesday, giving listeners access to radio programming from...
The mobile apps business isn't all fun and games. There's serious money in this relatively new app store market, indeed Gartner Inc. projects revenues to top $15 billion by the end of this year.By 2014, the firm expects app stores to generate $85 billion...
Verizon Wireless sure would like people to believe that its network is ready for all the iPhones it can sell. Lowell McAdam, president and COO of Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), walked investors through the carrier's 3G network strategy, beginning with its launch in 2004,...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has now served more than 10 billion app downloads. Since launching the App Store in June 2008, Apple's presence in the mobile space has grown considerably.The company surpassed 3 billion downloads just a year ago. Near the close of 2010, Apple...
Canadian Business Online | January 21, 2011
SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's top appeals court says Google cannot be held liable for all content posted on its Orkut social networking site.
The court has ruled against a Brazilian woman who was seeking an unspecified amount of...
Canadian Business Online | January 21, 2011
SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's top appeals court says Google cannot be held liable for all content posted on its Orkut social networking site.
The court has ruled against a Brazilian woman who was seeking an unspecified amount of...
Google Inc.'s (GOOG) latest earnings were overshadowed by an executive shake-up at the highest level of the company.Eric Schmidt is stepping down as CEO on April 4 to take on the title of executive chairman where he will focus on external deals, partnerships...
Cricket Communications Inc. isn't necessarily blazing any new trails with Muve Music, but it hopes to generate some early interest in the all-you-can-listen service in the city that never sleeps. The Leap Wireless International Inc. (LEAP) subsidiary launched Muve Music in its Las Vegas...
It seems only fitting that Verizon Wireless would announce seven new content deals as the Consumer Electronics Show winded down in Las Vegas. The lucky seven include Rhapsody, Bitbop, Gameloft, MOG, Slacker Radio, TuneWiki and Sling Media.All of the deals mark either an extension...
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Frontier India | January 6, 2011
InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, has released its updated network research report closing the year with a snapshot of mobile advertising trends in India between July 2010 and October 2010.
“The Indian mobile advertising market continues to...
TechTree| January 5, 2010 | Samir Makwana
Censorware to protect minors from accessing objectionable content
The relationship between Apple and the Japanese government hasn't been great last year. After cases of exploding Apple iPod batteries were reported, Japan is once again complaining about Apple. If Google's...
Via CCTV | January 1, 2011
For more on the development of the microblog in China, we now come back to our current affairs commentator, Mr Raymond Zhou, from China Daily, in our studio.
Q1: Hello, Mr Zhou, the microblog has been the hottest thing on...
A feather long missing in Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android Market cap has been procured. Android users on the AT&T Mobility (T) network can now pay for app purchases directly on their monthly bill.Google has been rolling out Direct Carrier Billing to AT&T users this...
News Corp. (NWSA) has sold its Fox Mobile Group unit to Jesta Group for an undisclosed sum. The sale marks a yearlong exit from many of News Corp's digital media businesses and MySpace could be next.The business will be renamed Jesta Mobile Holdings with...
Soon after FLO TV goes dark, a joint venture of a dozen broadcasters plans to launch mobile TV services that will reach about 40% of the U.S. population. Mobile Content Venture announced plans to initially launch two ad-supported channels in 20 markets by late...
It turns out Qualcomm Inc.'s (QCOM) spectrum for FLO TV is actually worth more on its own — at least to AT&T Mobility (T).The carrier has agreed to buy licenses for the 700 MHz spectrum that the service ran on for $1.92 billion. Qualcomm...
