Darryn Lyons, the pink-mohawked founder of the Big Pictures photo agency, has launched a mobile version of his celebrity gossip site MrPaparazzi.com, the Guardian reports. Aside from being able to…

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Another upstart mobile social media platform, Next2Friends, will announce a “multimillion-dollar” first funding round in the next four to six weeks. Term sheets are being signed for the company to…

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-- Zedge.net launches in U.S.: Zedge, a mobile content company owned by IDT Corporation, said it was going to enter the U.S. market after saying that it counts as many…

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Russia’s largest mobile telco, MTS, has inked a deal to be the exclusive carrier of MySpace in the country and some of its former republics. The localized MySpace Russia will…

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Holland’s Nimbuzz, another mobile app that hopes to aggregate all kinds of messaging networks and VoIP services, has raised a $15 million second round to add Windows Mobile, iPhone and…

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Loopt, the mobile social network which is backed by Sequoia and NEA, has filed a lawsuit against Loop’d Network, a social network for action sports athletes and enthusiasts, over alleged…

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Vodacom, the pan-African mobile operator, has made an interesting strategic move: it has bought a 40 percent stake in local social media networking company Zoopy.com. Terms of the deal were…

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Twitter is for the masses. It’s a site where anyone can talk about anything, as long as it takes less than 140 characters. But now, it appears the next evolution…

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Paris-based mobile IM firm Miyowa said today it has raised $8 million in a second round of venture capital from Techfund and Credit Agricole Private Equity. To date, the company…

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— NYSE Real-Time Quotes Go Mobile: CNBC has launched a new service that provides real-time quotes for NYSE-traded stocks on CNBC Mobile and CNBC.com. The business broadcaster is using the…

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In India, online portal Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) is investing an undisclosed amount in Mumbai-based Twitter-clone site Vakow....the service allows for users to receive SMS from friends and send updates to…

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Finally Twitter announces its funding. The popular microblogging/messaging service says its newest investors are Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund. That Spark was participating was already…

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Menlo Park, Calif.-based Jaxtr, a mobile social networking company, said today it has raised $10 million in a second round of venture capital led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. It…

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Domestic Chinese mobile phone service provider MICAT has announced an agreement with social-networking website, MySpace (called Juyou in China). Together, they will be launching “MySpace MICAT,” a social platform for…

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This year, there’s a ton of media companies banking on the Olympics being the watershed moment for mobile content, and even mobile advertising. And, when you think about it, the…

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The Motorola (NYSE: MOT) pipeline hasn’t been exactly flowing lately, but today, the U.S. handset maker announced with its partner Kodak the launch of a new camera phone–the Motozine ZN5.…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is continuing on its social media related acquisition trail: it has now bought out Zurich and Berlin-based social networking service Plazes. Terms of the deal were not…

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-- 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…

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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…

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-- 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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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-- 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…

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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…

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