Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) announced today that it is acquiring 100 percent of the privately-owned Danish mobile social network ZYB for 31.5 million euros ($48.7 million) in cash. The network operator…

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Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social networking in the U.S., France, India, Italy and the U.K. to…

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Dada Entertainment and Sony BMG have signed a deal which will see full-length DRM-free MP3s made available to Dada’s subscribers. The service charges $9.99 a month for 15 tokens, each…

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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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Mozes, a company that lets bands interact with fans over mobile, has raised an $11.5 million second round from Maveron and return backers Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture…

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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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VentureBeat has done a good analysis of the mobile social networking space, covering (what it thinks are) the 10 largest most significant companies in the field. MySpace Mobile and Facebook…

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-- ShoZu: Mobile media and info sharing service ShoZu says it has added eight new destinations, taking its roster up to 36. Users can now upload to Photobucket, Twitter, Dailymotion,…

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A joint-venture deal between Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) that includes investments of $3.2 billion coming from Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Google…

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Rearden Commerce, which has been focused on creating a Web-based personal assistant that lets you manage calendars and make travel arrangements online, said today it has raised $100 million in…

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-- The Jerry Springer Show has launched some mobile interactivity, with some features also available though a landline. It includes ringtones, a Jerry Springer Mobile Fan Club, leave a voicemail…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK is doing away with its separately priced internet bundles, and instead will now integrate the cost of access to the mobile web and email into its…

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Almost the entire ContentNext gang is in the Los Angeles hills at the Skirball Cultural Center for EconSM, an entire day’s worth of panels and speakers on the topic of…

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-- Pelago Adds Events to Whrrl: Pelago, which has a social networking site called Whrrl that provides restaurant information and reviews, said it is adding news about local events. Whrrl…

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A widespread text messaging service is launching today that will allow people in the U.S. and Canada to submit anonymous tips involving crimes via text messaging. The service is being…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is tying up with director Spike Lee to “direct a short film comprising YouTube-style videos created by teenagers and adults using their mobile phones”, reports the NYT.…

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Orange is dangling free access to Facebook and MySpace to its pre-pay users in hopes of driving up usage at its Orange World portal, reports NMA.co.uk. It has also signed…

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Buzzd, which is developing a location-based social network that revolves around entertainment listings, plans to announce today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of capital in a first round…

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Update: Corrected: I got it wrong the first time...the other way around: Zyb bought Imity. Zyb, the mobile phonebook service founded in Denmark, has bought out by Danish mobile social…

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There was a time when operators wanted to lock in people to their own content portals, but for Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), that’s the past. Since last year, the UK operator…

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Alltel (NYSE: AT) has launched a service to let people automatically save the photos they take with certain handsets to their PC, e-mail address and web photo albums including Photobucket,…

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— JuiceCaster on T-Mobile: Social networking service JuiceCaster is launching on T-Mobile USA in May, which will put the application’s 6.0 version on 12 of its top handsets. The…

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CBS (NYSE: CBS) News has quietly launched a citizen journalism site, where users can upload photos and videos directly from their mobile phone, for everyone to see. Last week the…

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-- Mom’s Luv 2 Txt: The Washington Post has an interesting story today about how parents are the fastest growing demographic of text messaging, as they are forced to communicate…

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We’re about three weeks away from our Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference at Skirball Center in LA. For those of you who are attending the conference, we have a…

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