The global market for Mobile Web 2.0 (social networking, user-generated content, mobile search and mobile instant messaging) will be increase from $5.5 billion currently to $22.4 billion in 2013, according…

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Just 1.7 percent of all UK mobile subscribers (812,000) used a mobile social network in Q108, according to new Nielsen research. Even so, the research firm said the space “could…

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India had 261 million mobile phone subscriptions at the end of March, ranking it second in terms of the size of the mobile market—behind China, of course. “The Telecoms Regulatory…

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Nielsen has released a new reporting service that combines audience measurement for online and mobile called TotalWeb. The service, which is operated by the Nielsen Online unit, claims to show…

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The mobile internet increases the audience reach of leading websites by an average of 13 percent, according to Nielsen. The metrics company has a new report—TotalWeb—which integrates data from Nielsen…

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AdMob, a mobile advertising company, said it’s launching a beta mobile analytics service today that will allow advertisers and publishers to track the effectiveness of an ad campaign. We’ll see…

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The market for rich media advertising on mobile—in the form of TV, video, games, user-generated content (UGC) and music—will reach $2.79 billion by 2012 predicts Screen Digest. The bulk of…

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-- The Money Channel has launched MoneyChannel Mobile, which will offer business, stock market and economic news, as well as stock quotes and corporate announcements. Users will also have the…

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Forrester Research has sent us some figures from its North American Technographics Technology, Media, and Marketing Benchmark Survey, Q3 2007 about the relative levels of trust people have for different…

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There has been some shuffling in the marketshare of the top five handset manufacturers, but no major change in new entrants according to Strategy Analytics. Although Motorola (NYSE: MOT) lost…

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The number of new businesses entering the mobile games industry peaked in 2003, but the total number of active companies is still increasing according to UK based research group the…

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Almost 3 billion mobile coupons will be sent to mobile phones by 2011, with just under $7 billion worth of discounts being redeemed according to Juniper Research. The analyst also…

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Mobile media and entertainment services (excluding messaging, mobile browsing and data charges) in the USA generated $3.1 billion in revenue in 2007 according to Analysys, with the analysts predicting that…

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Linux will see growth in the mobile handset market, reaching 20 percent penetration by 2013 according to ABI Research. The prediction is based on solving problems with framework fragmentation and…

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The NYT has gotten a bit metaphysical by asking “Is a coupon still a coupon if you can’t clip ’n’ save it?” I won’t get into the form vs function…

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Mobile data services are picking up—at least in Australia, according to the results of a survey of 949 Australians. The survey found an increasing proportion of people using mobile data…

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Global mobile search advertising will grow from $813 million this year to $5 billion by 2013, according to predictions by ABI Research. The figure includes on-deck and off-deck search, SMS…

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In Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) 36 percent of 18-34 year-old men with mobile phones access mobile media in February, making that a good way for advertisers to reach…

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A growing number of people are getting their mobile content from sources other than their carrier, reports BusinessWeek. The article cites Strategy Analytics analyst David Kerr as saying that the…

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Although the vast majority of mobile advertising is currently based on SMS, Juniper Research predicts that streamed and broadcast mobile TV services will become the most lucrative channels for mobile…

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In April 2007, a mere year ago, Russell Beattie started Mowser, a mobile browser that would render Web sites correctly for the mobile phone. Today, he’s publicly calling it quits,…

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A survey from JupiterResearch has found that 66 percent of respondents of the more 1,800 respondents to a survey on mobile music said that “nothing is likely to spur them…

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Most forms of mobile advertising are still annoying to a sufficient number of people to engender caution, according to a report by analyst group Forrester. Of those surveyed, 65 percent…

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ABI Research has issued a prediction that by 2013 there will be 1.5 billion browsers that support the latest capabilities such as AJAX and RSS in smartphones, with shipments rising…

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When is this mobile music business really going to take off? Not any time soon, a new Jupiter research report reckons. Just five percent of US mobile subscribers sideload tunes…

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