Mobile porn is slowly finding an audience among U.S. mobile users. And network operators are trying to figure out how to cash in. Adult wireless content is gaining substantial traction around the world as content providers find a market for everything from titillating mobile...
Mobile porn is slowly finding an audience among U.S. mobile users. And network operators are trying to figure out how to cash in. Adult wireless content is gaining substantial traction around the world as content providers find a market for everything from titillating mobile...
Internet search company Ask.com upgraded its mobile search offering, rolling out a free service featuring Internet sites, driving directions, maps and weather. The subsidiary of InterActive Corp. launched Ask Mobile, an ad-free, Internet-based service designed to minimize the number of keystrokes needed to find...
NEW YORK—Internet search company Ask.com upgraded its mobile search offering, rolling out a free service featuring Internet sites, driving directions, maps and weather. The subsidiary of InterActive Corp. launched Ask Mobile, an ad-free, Internet-based service designed to minimize the number of keystrokes needed to...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Mobile search startup JumpTap Inc. snared $22 million in a financing round as it welcomed new investor Valhalla Partners. Valhalla led the round, and existing investors General Catalyst Partners, BCE Capital and Redpoint Ventures also participated. JumpTap, which offers a white-label mobile search...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Mobile search startup JumpTap Inc. snared $22 million in a financing round as it welcomed new investor Valhalla Partners. Valhalla led the round, and existing investors General Catalyst Partners, BCE Capital and Redpoint Ventures also participated. JumpTap, which offers a white-label mobile search...
LOS ANGELES—Verizon Wireless and Alltel Wireless each announced that new search tools are available to their subscribers for free. Verizon Wireless said its Get It Now Search application, developed by Medio Systems Inc., lets subscribers search by voice or by typing. The service searches...
It seems U.S. consumers are slowly getting used to searching for information on their mobile phones. And service providers are beginning to deploy ways to cash in. More than 9 million users reported accessing a mobile Internet search service in the last month, according...
LONDON—JumpTap Inc. expanded on its mobile search product line with two new products for carriers and advertisers. The company unveiled an "advertising suite," which is designed to allow mobile marketers to place targeted ads among results returned during a mobile search. The application supports...
There's no question that wireless users are searching for porn on their mobile phones. But in the United States, at least, it seems nobody is cashing in. A recent study by mobile-search provider JumpTap Inc. found that searches for adult content accounted for more...
Google Inc. is dipping its toe in the mobile browser business, formatting Internet sites for users surfing the wireless Web. But legal experts say the Internet giant may be infringing on copyrights in the process. The Mountain View, Calif.-based firm has developed software that...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google Inc. continued the expansion of its mobile applications portfolio with a wireless version of its Google News service. Google News for mobiles, which can be accessed via a link on the company’s mobile Web site, allows users to search for news...
IRVINE, Calif.-Mobile search provider go2 said it delivered more than 24 million unique user sessions in 2005, marking a 51-percent increase from its 2004 usage figures. Wireless users viewed more than 210 million pages of local information from go2 last year, the company said;...
IRVINE, Calif.—Mobile search provider go2 said it delivered more than 24 million unique user sessions in 2005, marking a 51-percent increase from its 2004 usage figures.Wireless users viewed more than 210 million pages of local information from go2 last year, the company said; popular...
BARCELONA, Spain-Software giant Microsoft Corp. announced it acquired Paris-based mobile search company MotionBridge. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in June 2000, MotionBridge powers mobile search services for operators including O2 plc, T-Mobile International, Orange SA and Sprint Nextel Corp. On Sprint...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-The packed mobile search playground got even more crowded as digital marketing company iCrossing Inc. unveiled a new business unit. The company launched mCrossing, which it said will use text messaging and wireless search results to deliver advertising campaigns on wireless phones. ICrossing...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Shares of InfoSpace Inc. edged downward despite a solid fourth quarter that helped the company nearly double its annual profits.The Internet and mobile search provider reported a net fourth-quarter income of $37.9 million, or $1.14 per diluted share, up from $18.9 million, or...
BOULDER, Colo.-The Mobile Marketing Association is hoping to lay the foundation for mobile search revenues with a new document outlining potential business models, industry challenges and consumer needs. Calling mobile search "the next significant value creation opportunity for mobile operators around the world," the...
Wireless is getting Googled. And, well, Yahoo'd. The Internet giants have made numerous headlines in recent weeks as they rush to become the premier destination on the wireless Web. And they're doing it in very different ways.Google Inc. fired the year's opening salvo earlier...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Google Inc. is working to patent a wireless marketing method that would allow users to dial an advertiser's phone number with a single click, according to a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office application published last week. The document, which was cited last week...
The wireless sector will enter 2006 with great expectations, everybody watching third-generation systems shift into higher gear with all that jazzy, digital content whose anytime, anywhere availability is transforming other industries even as cellular carriers of old reinvent themselves. Indeed, the mobility given voice...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Mobile search technology provider JumpTap Inc. snared $21 million in its latest round of financing.New investor Redpoint Ventures joined existing backers General Catalyst Partners and BCE Capital. JumpTap said it will use the cash to fuel product development, increase staff and expand its...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Mobile Marketing Association said it has established a Mobile Search Working Group that will establish guidelines for a search marketing ecosystem.MMA said the group's goal is to develop common business models, operating procedures and technology interfaces that allow operators to offer an...
The mobile-search playground gets even more crowded this week, as an established behemoth expands its offerings and an infant startup tries to get onto the field. InfoSpace Inc. this week should unveil a service that delivers business listings and maps, movie showtimes and other...
