Samsung and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) continue to clean up in the U.S. smartphone market while it now seems clear that the launch of the Verizon iPhone—a positive development for Apple and Verizon, of course—has not slowed the Android tide, as smartphones running Android now account for over 40 percent of…

Interesting stats out today from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) that underscore just how clear the threat is to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) from Android: the researchers note in the last year in Europe, the number of Android phones in use grew by nearly the same amount that Symbian phones declined. As with…

Everyone likes to talk about the boom in smartphone use, but the reality is that even in the most advanced markets, there is still a long way to grow: figures out from comScore today indicate that in the U.S., only around 35 percent of all consumers over the age of…

Android continues to gain strength in the U.S smartphone market ahead of the pending debut of the iPhone 5, according to the most recent numbers from Comscore (NSDQ: SCOR). And in another sign of the times, Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) will be watching very closely to see if new…

Audience analytics firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is acquiring ad campaign effectiveness firm AdXpose for $22 million in a mostly stock-based transaction. The deal comes about three months after Mpire changed its name to AdXpose and raised a $3 million funding round.

New mobile market share numbers out from Comscore (NSDQ: SCOR) indicate that Android handsets are expanding their lead over rival platforms at the expense of Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM), which continues to fall behind the pace set by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the U.S. market.

Looks like we might be at a tipping point in the market for mobile apps and how they are becoming the go-to place for digital content. A new bit of number-crunching from the app analytics company Flurry claims that for the first time, this month in the U.S. mobile app…

In the top five markets in Europe today, 46 million people actively use smartphones to access apps. Analytics company Flurry, which compiled the data, projects that this number will more than double in the next 12 months, and will reach “near total smartphone market saturation” in just over two years.

Six months of U.S. smartphone market share data neatly underscores why Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) is scrambling to get new products out the door: it has tumbled all the way to the third-most prevalent mobile operating system in the U.S. despite commanding a sizable lead in late 2010.

The contrast between the mobile-computing fortunes of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) in the U.S. were neatly illustrated by a Comscore (NSDQ: SCOR) market share report Friday: they’re heading in opposite directions, and it doesn’t take an expert observer of the mobile industry to know which…

Smartphone usage has grown by an astounding 60 percent in the last year in the U.S., but the latest figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) show that it’s a market that currently appears to be consolidating in the middle, with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android the only two OS platforms to…

Audience measurement firm comScore has bought the product division of Nexius, a company that provides consumer insights to telcos. The big question that Washington, DC-based Nexius’ solutions answer is what sort of services subscribers want, so companies have a sense of where they should focus their capital expenditures. The deal…

As expected, five UK-based mobile operators have started sharing data with comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) and the GSMA in an attempt to eliminate two of the biggest problems facing the mobile content industry: lack of consistency and transparency in reporting mobile internet trends. In the first report released today, preliminary results…

Following comScore’s (NSDQ: SCOR) nearly $50 million acquisition of M:Metrics, co-founder, chief product architect and senior analyst Seamus McAteer said he is stepping down for personal reasons effective today, we have learned and confirmed. “I feel that I achieved what I set out to achieve with M:Metrics,” McAteer told us…

This does not come as a surprise—three weeks after internet measurement firm comScore bought M:Metrics for about $50 million, including cash and some stock, M:Metrics told us today that they are thinning their ranks in Seattle to fold into comScore’s larger operation. Will Hodgman, M:Metrics’ co-founder and CEO, would not…

Magid Abraham, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) president, CEO and co-founder, explained this morning in a conference call why his company, focused on tracking content online, was interested in buying Seattle-based M:Metrics, which tracks mobile usage. “It makes us the immediate leader in the mobile market.., and “accelerates the comScore global footprint…

Quickly following the announcement that comScore acquired Seattle-based mobile measurement firm M:Metrics for $44.3 million in cash, I talked to Will Hodgman, the co-founder, president and CEO of M:Metrics. He said that the combination of the two companies was essential for serving clients going forward. The difference between a person…

Well-known Internet measurement firm comScore said today that it has acquired M:Metrics, a leader in the mobile measurement business, for $44.3 million in cash and the issuance of approximately 50,000 options to purchase shares of comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) common stock. The sale of M:Metrics is a testament that mobile is…