Category Archives: Press Release
Samba launches UK’s first free ad-funded mobile broadband service
Press release
July 4th 2012. Samba Mobile – a new service which offers free on the go broadband for laptops, netbooks and iPads – has launched in the UK. Based on a simple value exchange model, users watch a few high-quality video advertisements to earn free credit. A partnership with the award winning Three UK network means Samba offers the best connection possible and coverage across all of the UK.
Watching just 2.5 minutes of ads per day – that’s less than the average ad break on commercial television – earns enough data to cover the average consumer’s monthly broadband consumption of 517MB data per month. Customers choose which ads they want to watch and when they want to watch them. A battery icon shows how much credit there is. Continue reading
GREE Advertising and MobPartner team up in mobile ads
MobPartner has just closed a worldwide partnership agreement with GREE, a World Leader in mobile gaming.
Press release
August 2nd 2012. GREE Advertising has announced a partnership with MobPartner a leading French mobile affiliate network. The alliance will enable game developers and publishers on GREE Platform to take advantage of industry-leading app discovery and user acquisition technologies across smartphone operating systems. GREE and MobPartner will collaborate to offer developers and publishers on GREE Platform a new suite of promotion tools and services that will draw from MobPartner’s proven mobile marketing expertise and international network of mobile affiliates. Continue reading
MDSL Introduces TEM Vision – entry-level GlobalTelecom Expenses Management for the enterprise
Press release
July 17th 2012. MDSL, the leading provider of international Telecom Expense Management (TEM) and Market Data Management (MDM) solutions, has announced TEM Vision, its new entry-level global Telecom Expense Management (TEM) system for Enterprise customers everywhere.TEM Vision is a completely new concept for the introduction of TEM solutions into large organisations and is designed [...]
Stellar growth sees China take 27% of global smart phone shipments, powered by domestic vendors
Android is the clear platform of choice, accounting for 81% of Chinese shipments
Press release
August 2nd 2012. Canalys has published its final Q2 2012 country-level shipment estimates to clients. Results show that China saw phenomenal growth of 199% year-on-year and 32% over the previous quarter. In total, more than 42 million smart phones were shipped into the channel in China in Q2 2012, representing the second consecutive quarter of record breaking volumes in a single country market. China accounted for 27% of the 158 million global smart phone shipments, compared to 16% for the United States. Continue reading
Opera Mobile advertising report finds iOS on top for ad monetisation
First State of Mobile Advertising report from Opera
Press release
July 20th 2012. 4th Screen Advertising’s parent company Opera Software, has launched its first State of Mobile Advertising report, highlighting key data and trends in mobile advertising worldwide. The report contains insights from the world’s leading mobile ad platform, using data mined from a global network of 35 billion plus ad impressions, which will deliver more than £255 million ($400 million) in revenue to mobile publishers in 2012. Continue reading
Strong demand for Smartphones in Q2 2012 continues to drive the worldwide mobile phone market
So says IDC
Press Release
July 26th 2012 – The worldwide mobile phone market grew 1 per cent year over year in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12), as Samsung and Apple shipped almost half of the world’s smartphones. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 406.0 million units in 2Q12 compared to 401.8 million units in the second quarter of 2011. Continue reading
InMobi Acquires Metaflow Solutions
To expand its portfolio of offerings for mobile app developers
Press release
July 31st 2012. InMobi, the largest independent mobile advertising network, has announced the acquisition of Metaflow Solutions, leaders in mobile app management and distribution solutions. Metaflow technology simplifies the global deployment and content management process for developers through its intelligent submission tools optimised through six years of operations, servicing the biggest publishers in the market. Metaflow’s Management and Distribution of content to consumer portals has consistently provided the fastest, lowest cost way to publish apps to hundreds of independent, OEM & operator appstores across the globe. Continue reading
Netbiscuits and Sitecore collaborate to mobilise exhibitions for Australian National Maritime Museum
ANMM launches Titanic and Fish exhibitions Mobile Sites to reach out to public using Netbiscuits Mobile Platform and Sitecore CMS
Press release
July 31st 2012 Netbiscuits, the world’s leading cloud platform for the development and delivery of next generation web apps across all mobile and connected devices, has announced the first joint integration of Netbiscuits Mobile Platform with Sitecore CMS for two Exhibition Mobile Websites for the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM). Continue reading
Mindshare UK selects Celtra as rich media mobile advertising provider
Exclusive relationship will drive mobile advertising adoption by leading brands
Press release
July 25th 2012. Celtra, the industry leader for rich media advertising and analytics across mobile devices, has announced that it has become the exclusive rich media mobile advertising partner for Mindshare UK, the global media network, with a who’s who client list of top global brands including Unilever, Hutchison 3, Landrover, Nestlé and Mazda. Mindshare UK selected Celtra after an exhaustive pitch process to help deliver highly innovative and award-winning mobile advertising executions. Continue reading
Mobile marketing pioneer 12snap adopts Netbiscuits technology to build and deliver solutions for brands
12snap is the latest digital communications agency to join the Netbiscuits Global Partner Network as a Certified Solution Partner
Press release
July 24th 2012. German digital marketing agency 12snap and Netbiscuits, provider of the world’s leading cloud-based technology for optimised mobile websites, has announced that 12snap has qualified to join the Netbiscuits Global Partner Network (GPN) as a Certified Solutions Partner. “As a pioneer in mobile marketing with a focus on communicating brand ideas via mobile devices, 12snap is using Netbiscuits’ technology to develop and deliver content to consumers in exciting new ways”, said 12snap CEO Stefanie Krebs. “By fully leveraging the technical capabilities of the Netbiscuits Platform, 12snap can concentrate on providing mobile users with the most creative and compelling rich media web applications for their smartphones and tablets.” Continue reading
Intersec launches new version of Loyalty Management Suite to help mobile operators
Offers contextual promotions and services tailored to subscribers’ behaviour
Software reduces churn by 10-20% and increases ARPU by 5-9% per annum
Press release
July 23rd, 2012 – Intersec, a leading value added software provider for mobile and integrated operators is launching a new version of its Loyalty Management Suite (LMS) to help operators offer contextual promotions and services based on subscribers’ actual usage, behaviour and preferences. The new version of the software allows marketing teams to easily and quickly develop real-time promotions for targeted subscribers based on analysis of actual usage patterns. Continue reading
NFC Mobile payments set to exceed $180 billion worldwide by 2017
As NFC payments becomes a standard
Press release
July 23rd 2012. A new report from Juniper Research has found that the NFC retail payments market will exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, more than a seven-fold increase over 2012. The leading regions of North America, Western Europe and Far East & China will contribute 90 per cent of this market value as smartphones with NFC payment technology become standard. Continue reading
Ogone acquires Tunz.com to expand its mobile payment solutions offer and enriches its overall platform with the functionalities of an e-money institution
Signs collaboration agreement with Belgacom
Press release
July 17th 2012. Ogone the specialist in the online support of payment services, mobile payments pioneer Tunz.com , and telecom, IT & Media specialist Belgacom Group have signed a strategic agreement in which Ogone acquires 100 per cent of ownership of Tunz.com and which states that the three companies will further develop their cooperation in the domain of electronic and mobile payments. Belgacom had a 40 per cent stake in Tunz.com and is a longtime partner of Ogone. Continue reading
Samsung acquires CSR’s handset R&D for $310 million
Press release
June 17th 2012. Samsung Electronics has announced that it will be paying CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) $310m for its handset R&D operations and for the associated technology license, including connectivity and location technology such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS. Samsung will also invest an additional $34.4m for a 4.9 per cent stake in CSR. Continue reading
RIM found guilty of infringing Mformation Patent
Ex-CEO Mike Lazaridis testifies, jury awards $147 million in damages
Press release
The US Federal District Court of Northern California found Canadian company Research in Motion (RIM) guilty on Friday 13th July 2012, by unanimous jury verdict, of infringing Mformation Technologies‘ patent related to wireless mobile device management. The software found to infringe Mformation’s patent is RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), used by corporate enterprise customers to manage and secure their BlackBerry devices. The court awarded Mformation $147.2 million dollars in damages based on past sales of BES-connected BlackBerry smartphones in the USA from late 2008, when the lawsuit was filed, through to the trial date. This award does not include future royalties, past and future US government sales, or past and future non-US sales. Continue reading
