Here’s a new twist on mobile advertising and social networks: Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) is launching a Facebook application today that will give customers, who participate in its Sugar…

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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) confirmed this morning that it is having preliminary discussions with SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) to explore possible strategic opportunities. We were first last week to…

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Rafat reported last week that Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) is in merger talks with the much smaller and troubled MVNO Helio, and this week the rumors have the MVNO…

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Rafat broke the news Thursday that MVNO’s Virgin Mobile and Helio were considering a merger, and despite the WSJ verifying the tie-up with their own sources, SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM)…

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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), the MVNO which just reported its Q1 earnings earlier this week, is in talks with the much smaller and troubled MVNO Helio, we have learned,…

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Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) released its first quarter earnings today, showing that results were substantially lower compared to the year-ago period, however, they were at the upper end of expectations…

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So we wrote earlier today about the runup in the Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) stock today. Though the company declined to give NYSE any reason for the stock jump,…

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For some unknown reason, Virgin Mobile USA’s (NYSE: VM) stock is trading as much as 34 percent above yesterday’s close today, prompting the New York Stock Exchange to ask the…

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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) might slash its roughly 400-person staff by one-fourth as the company seeks to rebound from poor quarterly earnings numbers. But spokeswoman Jayne Wallace also said…

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Reports that Sonopia was shutting down spread like wildfire yesterday, but its founder Juha Christensen, said today it’s not true. The company is still alive, but drastically scaling back its…

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This should get some more fuel to the Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) naysayers who have hammered the stock in the last month or so after disappointing earnings (though his…

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CTIA kicked off this morning with the association’s Chairman Lowell McAdam of Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) addressing the crowd. He talked about how much innovation has taken place over the…

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—AOL (NYSE: TWX) Offers WAP Games: AOL plans to announce today that it is offering free WAP-based mobile games to wireless subscribers, so they don’t have to download anything to…

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Yesterday we reported on Virgin Mobile USA’s (NYSE: VM) Q4 earning results, and on lower subscribers additions, its stock is being hammered today on NYSE. It fell as much as…

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Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) reported Q4 and 2007 results today, saying it recorded its first full-year of profits. In 2007, it made $4.2 million, turning around from a loss of…

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Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) has launched its mobile service in one of the biggest and most competitive mobile markets in the world: India. It has announced a ‘brand franchise’ agreement…

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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) reported preliminary Q4 results today during a Thomas Weisel conference, revealing that it failed to add as many subscribers during the holiday as it wanted.…

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Howard Handler, who has served as CMO of Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) since it launched here in U.S. in 2003, is leaving the company. Bob Stohrer, currently VP of…

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"Virgin Mobile” has signed up Player X to manage its games and video services. Player X will be responsible for “selecting, signing and managing entertainment content partners on behalf of…

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Italian broadband provider Tiscali is planning to roll out a UK mobile phone service in the last three months of 2008, according to Telegraph.co.uk. It’s currently in discussions with the…

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We’re marking the new year with some updates to our ContentNext Media Index, an index of 100 U.S.-traded companies in the media, Internet content and related sectors. Two of the…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has begun serving ads on its US MSN Mobile page, moving into the mobile advertising business in the USA—it already sells mobile ads in Belgium, France, Spain,…

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Kahn Gauthier Swick has filed a class action lawsuit against Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA on behalf of shareholders, apparently because the stock has fallen 55 percent from its peak…

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Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson has announced that Virgin will open a mobile service in India. “We have a (telecoms) partner now, and I will reveal all in two months’…

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Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA has released its first earnings since its IPO in October.Revenue for Q3 increased 25 percent year-on-year to $301.4 million, and adjusted EBITDA was $17 million,…

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