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The Mobile Lowdown 03-23-11: Apple Data Center; Mobile Ad Trends; Clouds

Mar 23, 2011 7:15 AM

Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: speculation on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might do with its new data center in North Carolina; mobile advertising trends from the IAB and PwC; and two new cloud-based ways for publishers to add functionality to their mobile apps.

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Search, Companies, Amazon, Apple, iAd, iPhone, Google, Netflix, Spotify, Yahoo, appmobi, iab, mblox, pricewaterhousecoopers

mBlox, Sony Pictures, Others To Settle $63 Million Mobile Content Lawsuit

Nov 10, 2009 6:41 PM

A group of 14 mobile content providers, including mBlox, *Sony* Pictures, 2WayTraffic and Playphone, have agreed to settle the latest class action lawsuit stemming from the way that wireless subscribers were charged for unauthorized content. The settlement was initially approved by the Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois; it…

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Posted In: Legal, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, SMS, 2waytraffic, dada, mblox, playphone, sendme mobile

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Industry Moves: Mobile Billing And Messaging Firm mBlox Appoints New CEO

Jan 20, 2009 9:50 AM

Mobile billing and messaging delivery firm mBlox has appointed a new CEO, former payments processor DataCash chief Andrew Dark, who will take over the role at the end of March. Dark replaces Jeff Clark, who held the head position at mBlox for four years. Dark will be responsible for expanding…

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Industry Moves, Technologies / Formats, Companies, andrew dark, mblox

Fighting Crime 160 Characters At A Time

Apr 29, 2008 11:15 AM

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 powered by mBlox, a mobile transaction company, Anderson Software, a law enforcement software company, with the help of Crime Stoppers.…

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Posted In: Legal, Social Media, mblox

@ MWC Wire: Mobile Web Search Growing, Zyb Social Phone Book, mBlox Figs

Feb 11, 2008 2:33 PM

- Downloads: More research, this time from mobile search and ad vendor Medio, says mobile web searches now have more momentum than searches for downloadable content. Though downloads remained the most popular search result in H207 at 60 percent, these searches declined 10 percent while mobile web search grew 43…

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Posted In: Research & Metrics, Search, Technologies / Formats, mblox, medio, zyb

mBlox Raises Another $22 Million Funding

Jan 28, 2008 11:00 AM

mBlox, the mobile services and platform firm which has been an acquisition or IPO candidate, has raised an additional $22 million in late stage, fifth round funding, according to an SEC filing, picked up by PEHub. Backers include Norwest Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Avanti Partners, Novus Ventures and Trident…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, avanti partners, mblox, norwest venture partners, novus ventures, scale venture partners, trident capital

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