Ingrid Lunden
Jun 24, 2011 11:52 AM
These days the words “social network” are all but synonymous with Facebook, but there are a number of other players, especially on mobile, that have established themselves, albeit on a significantly smaller scale. One of these, MocoSpace, today announces that it’s reached a milestone of 20 million users and is…
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Ingrid Lunden
Apr 14, 2011 11:10 AM
We’ve heard a lot recently about gamification and adding game elements to non-gaming content to improve user engagement. Now, a new study from the mobile social network MocoSpace gives us some numbers to back up the idea that gamers are more engaged than other kinds of social network users. I…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 4, 2011 4:30 PM
We now have a confirmed interested party in MySpace, which News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). publicly said was up for sale this week: Mobile social network MocoSpace is telling various media outlets that it has approached News Corp. about buying the property.
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Tricia Duryee
May 20, 2010 9:00 AM
MocoSpace has been able to build a mobile social network of more than 11 million registered users without building an application or targeting smartphone users. But now it has released an application for the Android platform, and soon iPhone, that is focused on some of the site’s more popular features,…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 17, 2010 12:10 PM
MocoSpace, a social network that is primarily accessed on the phone, has reached 11 million users. While that may pale in comparison to the 100 million people using Facebook on cellphones, it easily surpasses the 560,000 using Foursquare. However, it is more in line with the 500,000 users that MocoSpace…
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Tricia Duryee
Sep 4, 2008 10:35 PM
In 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will be part of a mobile social network, and that they will generate $410 million from subscriptions alone, which doesn’t include revenues from mobile advertising, according to a report recently released by ABI Research. To get a sense of where things stand today…
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James Quintana Pearce
Jan 28, 2008 4:32 AM
Mobile social network company MocoSpace has raised $4 million in its second round of funding, drawing from existing investors General Catalyst, Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group and former eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) exec Michael Deering reports TechCrunch. MocoSpace raised $3 million its first round. MocoSpace claims 2 million members and 1 billion…
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