Robert Andrews
Feb 9, 2012 4:06 AM
When the consulting firm’s logo appeared routinely in Six Nations rugby broadcast graphics this weekend, James Cridland was amongst the viewers to ask: “Accenture advertises on BBC Sport - how?” Sponsorship on the license-funded BBC in the UK is strictly forbidden. But the workaround, for Accenture, was to build a…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 8, 2012 5:35 AM
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services—enabling people to buy Facebook Credits and charge them directly to their mobile bills. Now, it’s increasingly looking like that may just be the beginning: today, UK-based mobile billing and analytics specialist Bango (AIM: BGO) announced that…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 7, 2012 10:00 AM
It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is showing that it will respond swiftly if anyone starts messing with its App Store. But further investigation into the practices…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 6, 2012 6:00 AM
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is that Facebook will do first in the world of mobile marketing, and it could be coming online “within weeks.”
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 25, 2012 1:00 PM
A big endorsement today for mobile advertising from eMarketer: their analysts today said they were revising up their forecasts for U.S. mobile ad spend to $2.61 billion, from their previous estimates of $1.8 billion. Why the rise? Google’s “exceptional” mobile advertising performance in mobile search advertising, and more reliable market…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 19, 2012 10:02 AM
More woe for beleagured mobile services company Motricity: the company today announced that it is restructuring operations, pulling back from investments in Asia and focusing on growth in North America in areas like mobile advertising and enterprise services.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 17, 2012 9:47 AM
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 10, 2012 8:03 AM
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will be playing a key role, and so, it seems, will carriers.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 9, 2012 8:04 AM
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) at the moment is not leading the rankings of smartphone vendors when it comes to shipments, but when it comes to mindshare, especially in North America, the company continues to blow away the competition, according to a new survey. Meanwhile, a separate piece of research—which did not…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 9:50 PM
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as its CEO to run a business largely built on content, search and advertising. But it didn’t exactly reward it, either: the stock closed down by 51 cents at $15.82,…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 8:19 AM
China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies like Apple are doubling down on their investments there. But similarly, Chinese mobile players are looking at ways of exporting their products and playing on their brands abroad, and…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 30, 2011 7:00 AM
This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. According to figures from ZenithOptimedia, global advertising revenues will reach $486 billion…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 22, 2011 6:00 AM
This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cover, from publishing to mobile to advertising. Despite the economic slowdown, digital advertising and marketing revenues grew in 2011 and remained a cornerstone…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 5:00 PM
Some pretty damning early statistics out today for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the Lumia 800: according to a new survey, in the month of November, the device accounted for only 0.17 percent of smartphone sales in the UK, and looks set to only double that market share…
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Tom Krazit
Dec 21, 2011 1:19 PM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has officially opened the Consumer Electronics Show for years with keynotes from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, but 2012 will be the last year the company graces the CES stage, it announced Wednesday, two and a half weeks before Ballmer’s traditional opening speech.
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Robert Andrews
Dec 16, 2011 5:46 AM
Samsung phones overtook iPhone for U.S. brand perception in the week after Samsung launched a TV campaign mocking hipster fanboys and iPhone’s battery.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 12, 2011 8:50 AM
A timely news announcement from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) one week after Google’s own Android apps milestone: Apple says that 500,000 apps have now been published in the App Store, and it has had downloads of 18 billion across the store since it launched three years ago. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) last…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 8, 2011 1:56 PM
Update: YouMail’s app is back in the Android Market after some more communication between the voicemail company and T-Mobile. That revealed that there was no competitive issue between YouMail and T-Mobile, but actually a glitch for some 15,000 users of the app that resulted in battery drain and network strain—a…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 2, 2011 7:49 PM
More mobile movements from Facebook today: it has bought the check-in social media service Gowalla, according to a report in CNN.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 2, 2011 6:14 AM
One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answer to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Store retail phenomenon, the unveiling of an Android retail operation, in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Samsung got dealt one more blow in Sydney’s courtrooms, as…
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