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In Mini-AOL Reunion, Verve Wireless Buys Deconstruct Media

Feb 2, 2011 7:00 AM

Mobile ad network Verve Wireless has acquired Deconstruct Media, an ad tech firm focusing on mobile. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. The merger is something of a mini-AOL (NYSE: AOL) reunion, as Verve recently named Tom MacIsaac, the former head of Lightningcast, an online video ad company acquired by AOL in…

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Posted In: Advertising, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, AOL, deconstruct media, verve wireless

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Verve Wireless Names Ex-AOL Exec Tom MacIsaac As CEO

Jan 18, 2011 7:00 AM

Mobile ad network Verve Wireless CEO Art Howe is stepping aside after nearly six years and is handing the reins to Tom MacIsaac, the former head of Lightningcast, an online video ad company acquired by AOL (NYSE: AOL) in 2006.

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Posted In: Advertising, Local, Industry Moves, Mobile, tom macisaac, verve wireless

Verve Wireless Raises $7 Million More To Deliver The News Over Mobile

Sep 28, 2010 7:00 AM

Verve Wireless, which is helping hundreds of media companies worldwide create and monetize news applications for smartphones, said it has raised $7 million in a round led by BlueRun Ventures.

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Posted In: Advertising, Local, Apps, Mobile, Companies, AP, Apple, iPad, iPhone, AT&T, Google, Android, Hearst, McClatchy, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, bluerun ventures, verve wireless

Verve Wireless Aims To Serve 2.2 Billion Mobile News Pages This Year

Feb 4, 2010 10:18 AM

Verve Wireless has served an average of 100 million mobile news pages per month, the company says. The Associated Press-backed mobile website builder has already created sites for three McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company papers—The Sacramento Bee, The News & Observer and The Miami Herald—as well as the AP’s site and…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, verve wireless

Verve Wireless Building AP’s First Local News Network For Mobile

Apr 23, 2008 10:06 PM

Verve Wireless is expected to announce tomorrow that it is providing the technology for the AP’s recently announced Mobile News Network that will be the first product released by AP’s Digital Cooperative, an initiative designed to find new digital outlets for the news and information produced by its members. AP…

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Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, verve wireless

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