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Mobile Content Bits: Palringo-RIM; Viva Vision; MSNYuuZoo; Hello Kitty Portal; Duke’s Sticky Notes - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 19 Jun 2008 10:55 AM PST

-- Palringo Available On RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) Devices: Mobile instant messaging company Palringo has released its software client for BlackBerry smartphones. The firm’s Rich Messaging Service is now available for…

Message At Cannes Ad Festival Is That Mobile Ads Lag In America, But Thrive In Europe And Asia - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 19 Jun 2008 09:52 AM PST

At this year’s Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, arguably the industry’s biggest annual competition, featuring nearly 30,000 ads that have been entered in 10 categories, is showing signs of mobile…

Mobile Content Bits: MMS Search; FusionOne Backup; Knovolo Real Estate Text; Loopt On Blackberry - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 17 Jun 2008 12:42 PM PST

-- Text Pics To Search: 23half said today that its so-called Thrrum MMS Search is available to Sprint (NYSE: S) wireless subscribers, which allows them to find information on something…

AT&T Launches JuiceCaster And Buzzwire Mobile Apps - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 17 Jun 2008 09:51 AM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) said today it launched two new social media and entertainment applications—JuiceCaster 6.0 and Buzzwire. JuiceCaster lets you upload videos and photos to communities, like YouTube and Flickr,…

VCs Say The Focus Is On Mobile And Online Content For Next Two Years: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 17 Jun 2008 12:01 AM PST

Venture capitalists, executives and investment bankers said over the next two years they expect to increase their investments in entertainment content with a focus on mobile and online applications with…

Puma Kicks Off Mobile Marketing Campaign For Euro 2008 - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 13 Jun 2008 10:26 AM PST

Puma, the shoemaker, is also jumping on the Euro 2008 bandwagon by launching an entire mobile marketing program, called “‘Together Everywhere” just in time for the big soccer tournament, according…

Mobile Content Bits: Mobile Coupons On Yahoo And In The Mail; Go2 Animates; AFP Goes Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:36 PM PST

-- Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Adds Mobile Coupons: Mountain View, Calif.-based Coupons said today it’s working with Yahoo! to enable consumers to discover and redeem coupons from their phones. Coupons will…

Apple Awards Prizes To The Best iPhone Applications - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 12 Jun 2008 12:22 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) received a ton of press on Monday when Steve Jobs took the stage to unveil the iPhone 3G, but the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco continued…

5th Finger Raises $7 Million For U.S. Mobile Marketing Play - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 11 Jun 2008 04:30 AM PST

San Francisco-based 5th Finger plans to announce today that it has raised $7 million in venture capital from Starfish Ventures in Australia. The company, which was originally founded in Sydney,…

2ergo’s Proteus Launches Web Tools To Create Text-Message Campaigns - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 10 Jun 2008 03:17 PM PST

Proteus, an Arlington, Vir.-based company that’s owned by UK-based 2ergo, is launching a service this week called Via that helps brands, advertising agencies, retailers and local businesses to quickly create…

Mobile Content Bits: Smaato And Ad Infuse; Ringleader Digital Ads; InnerActive and Buongiorno - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 10 Jun 2008 11:06 AM PST

-- Smaato and Ad Infuse to provide ads in apps: Smaato announced at the Mobile Marketing Forum that it’s partnering with Ad Infuse to provide advertisers, publishers, and operators advertising…

Our New Social Media Deals Report: Charting VC and M&A Deals Over the Last Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 07 Jun 2008 12:56 PM PST

Nearly two years ago we had our first Social Media Deals Report in which we recounted the social media VC and M&A deals in various categories of the social media…

Video Interview: Mireia Fontbernat, Qik: Premium Features, PPV Coming - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 06 Jun 2008 03:33 AM PST

Video hosting can be pricey, and most beta services get asked this question - so I asked Mireira Fontbernat, who heads Europe, Middle East and Africa ops for much talked-about…

Mobile Content Bits: YouMail Voicemail; Zumobi New Release; Zed Brew Downloads; Rocawear And Boost - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 05 Jun 2008 04:40 PM PST

-- YouMail visual voicemail to launch in beta: Irvine, Calif.-based YouMail said today it is launching its free public beta of its visual voicemail for smartphones. The term became popular…

Is Verizon Wireless Buying Alltel For Its Assets Or For Its Culture Of Innovation? - 5 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 05 Jun 2008 11:48 AM PST

Verizon Wireless’s (NYSE: VZ) $28.1 billion acquisition of Alltel will create the largest U.S. wireless carrier, but at the same time, it will eliminate one of the most innovative carriers…

Nokia’s MOSH Gets Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 04 Jun 2008 10:03 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today it added advertising to its MOSH portal that’s used by people who are interested in creating and sharing mobile content. The portal is tapping into…

Whitepages.com Buys Snapvine.com For Voice Apps - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 04 Jun 2008 06:43 AM PST

WhitePages.com, the online directory service, is acquiring Snapvine.com, a provider of voice services for social networks. WhitePages intends to integrate SnapVine’s voice services into its own product, and it anticipates…

Jott Networks Allows You To Listen To RSS Feeds By Phone - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 03 Jun 2008 05:33 PM PST

Jott Networks, which lets people call in to leave notes for yourself or send emails and text messages to others by using your voice, launched a new feature today—listening to…

AT&T’s Top Selling App Is MobiTV; Tetris Still Dominates Games - 5 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 03 Jun 2008 03:05 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T), the largest U.S. wireless carrier, released its top 10 selling applications and games during the first quarter and Jupiter analyst Julie Ask has the results. On her…

Second Life Comes To Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 03 Jun 2008 12:46 PM PST

Now people living in the Second Life can feel free to leave the house. Even though it would seem like an impossible feat to scale down the popular 3D virtual…

Azuki Systems Comes Out Of Stealth To Launch Mobile TV Snackable Bites - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 03 Jun 2008 06:00 AM PST

Azuki Systems is unveiling today a mobile media platform that categorizes and breaks-up small bits of mobile TV that the company’s founders believe will be more popular than the current…

NTT DoCoMo Plans 30 Percent Stake In Japanese Internet Company - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 02 Jun 2008 11:50 AM PST

NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is planning to invest about 10 billion yen ($94.8 million) in NTT Resonant, an Internet company that supports a Web portal called goo, and hosts digital…

Mobile Messenger Zannel Raises $10 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 02 Jun 2008 04:14 AM PST

Zannel, a service for sharing content via mobile, has raised a $10 million second round from Alloy Venture and past backers U.S. Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures. This brings its…

Demand For Mobile Social Networks Will Grow; Revenues Will Be More Difficult: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 29 May 2008 06:10 PM PST

Mobile social networks will experience a steady growth curve, but making money on them will remain difficult, according to a report published by In-Stat. It estimates that by 2012, there…

Twitter Closing its $15 Million Round With Spark; Bit Less Than $100M Valuation - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 May 2008 10:26 AM PST

As has been reported and rumored for the last month or so, the much-hyped mobile messaging and community service Twitter is in the process of closing its $15 million round,…