Need a wife quick? She’s only a mobile search away thanks to Jeevansathi

Jeevansathi.com is one of India’s larger matrimonial websites, and it has now introduced matrimonial search on mobile. The new mobile service allows users to search and contact via their mobile phone.
Focusing on WAP-enabled phones, the app is downloaded by texting a short-code number. Users create profiles, search others profiles and view photos. Existing members can [...]

Vodafone may choose Yahoo to provide mobile search

Vodafone are in talks with Yahoo to integrate Yahoo mobile search services onto European handsets from the manufacturer. This comes from a wonderfully citation free story from Bloomberg.com.
According to the report, with Vodafone’s Google deal running out this year, it is in talks with a variety of companies to provide it’s on-handset mobile Internet search [...]

Truveo claims number one spot for video search engines

Video search engine Truveo has released the results from it’s internal survey. Claiming that no other body is conducting studies of video search engines, Truveo has released both its results and its methodology to encourage other video search engines to follow suite. Its results claim that Truveo provides videos from a far wider number sites [...]

RingRing Media sees mobile search spend quadruple – 16 percent click through rate and 110 percent conversions

There is an interesting press release from RingRing Media this morning announcing the results of its mobile campaigns. In short, RingRing Media says that it has quadrupled its mobile search spend.

What does this mean?
Well. RingRing Media is a media planning agency. That means that they take investment from brands and plan them for mobile to [...]

Comments from SVP Stephen Burke on allwords uncovered article

Stephen Burke the SVP of Marketing at MCN has contacted me with regards to this article I wrote http://www.gomonews.com/mcn-allwords-mobile-advertising-uncovered/

He has a couple of points that he would like me to address.  Firstly he asks if I do this again in English and the answer is “yes” I will.  But, getting help from a vendor always [...]

Yahoo New Organisation structure

Yahoo! has announced its new structure see (http://ycorpblog.com/).
But in short:

1. The new CEO (Carol Bartz) has stated that mobile is integral to Yahoo!
2. David Ko is new SVP Mobile
 
Who is David Ko?- From the PR
 
David has been with Yahoo! for nine years, most recently leading Yahoo!’s mobile business operations globally.  Prior to that, David served as the Managing [...]

Marco Boerries Exits Yahoo

The former EVP of connected Life Division at Yahoo! has left.

Source:
http://blog.clickz.com/090225-155932.html
Text from Clickz
A Yahoo spokesperson confirmed the group leader’s departure with ClickZ. “After four years at Yahoo, Marco Boerries is leaving the company for personal reasons. Under Marco’s leadership, the Connected Life division developed a leadership position in Mobile, and most recently in the Connected [...]

MCN allwords gets global mobile search deal with Fox Mobile

Mobile Content Networks, mobile search specialist, today announced multiple deployments with Fox Mobile Distribution. The Fox Mobile content sites Jamba and Jamster will be using the MCN allwords vertical search engine worldwide. The service will initially launch in Thailand and Sweden, expanding to other regions later.
allwords is a tightly-focused, vertical paid search program. It’s specifically [...]

GoMo News mobile video 1-to-1 updates at Mobile World Congress

You might have noticed that we’ve done something new this year! For those who couldn’t make it to Mobile World Congress, we created our 1-to-1 video updates with mobile companies. We recorded talking-heads pieces with CEOs and spokespeople, giving us overviews, updating us on news and telling us what they think about the year ahead. [...]

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