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Submit your mobile advertising and marketing articles today!!!

So, in February, I would like to have an open to commentators month. If you are in mobile applicaitons, mobile marketing or mobile commerce please feel free to submit a 600-1000 word article to us for publication in February. I am thinking about one a day on a guest post basis.

Any questions email benagomo@gmail.com or just send me the article.

Otherwise see you at the GoMo News Lounge or GoMo News Blender (www.gomoblender.eventbrite.com) at Mobile World Congress.
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Top Mobile Marketing Links: Augme, mobile marketing, Appconomy, QR

Interview with Brian Magierski Appconomy. I don’t know Brian but I know the fabulous Gerry Goldstein who works for the business – so the company must be going places!

http://www.texastechpulse.com/interview_with_brian_magierski_appconomy/s-0040336.html

Did mobile marketing fail in 2011 – I have linked to this article even though I don’t necessary agree with it. I feel it is trying to be controversial.

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/410/78/69101.html

Augme – is hitting the numbers. I have to say I might invest in Augme this year and I definitely want to meet and interview the company. It has bought itself into the world of mobile marketing barcodes and advertising but hasn’t really promoted its brand as much as it should.

http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/67546/Augme+Begins+to+Ramp+the+Top-Line

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Cannival of the Mobilists returns for 2012

The Carnival of the Mobilists is back! If you didn’t know its a blog linking type of hippy show off your cool article thingy and I used to be really involved a few years ago. I heard recently about its return and here is the first one of 2012. Enjoy some great articles and links from friends in the mobile space. Continue reading

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Top Mobile Commerce links McSmile, India, Remington, Tabbedout, SBAB

McSmile campaign

Tabbedout

SBAB Bank m-payments pilot

Mobile Commerce India

Mobile payments in Canada are crap!

Remington new mobile commerce site

Mobile Commerce for the medical industry

Study on mobile payments

Three included in UK mobile payment talks

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Great CTIA News on tablets, EVO, Sprint and hot products

Before I headed over to CTIA I had a great chat with the super guys over at LightReading.com. They are doing the show daily and I asked them if I could link-in to super news from the show daily as I was too busy moderating conferences and panels to work at the show. They agreed and here are some links to tablet news and other hotties.

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@MMA Forum Andy Smith Client Services Eagle Eye

So I pounced on Andy when I saw him as I wanted to know about life after Google and AdMob. Apparently all is going very well and he and Russell are a team again once more. This time with Eagle Eye – please see below. Continue reading

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@MMA Forum interview with Boost Communications Oystein Skiri

Here is an interview with Norway’s Boost Communication. Its with the CEO Oystein (we call him Einstein!) Skiri and its about there technology backbone which is hot in the Middle East. Continue reading

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O2 More mobile marketing service – the good, the bad and the ugly

Last week, O2 UK announced that it had reached six million customers in just six months after passing the two million mark.

What for?
The increase in customers if for the brands mobile marketing location based mobile service.

What?
It is called O2 More. It is a location based SMS push service. So – according to O2 permission based marketing at its best. Users sign in and highlight what coupons or special offers they are interested in. Then relevant adverts are pushed at or near the point of sale.
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Taptu raises more capital we speak to CEO Mitch Lazar

Today a press release was issued stating that Taptu had received funding for its social reader. But the big story was not about the existing Taptu platform but a new platform called Tapform. I needed to know more and called up Taptu for a interview. This is how it went.

Bena Roberts speaks to Mitch Lazar CEO Taptu
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Top mobile marketing news, 4th-Screen, Mobilethink and Cardmobili

Mobilethink Analytics
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UK Riots – where is the mobile community?

Valiant but dismal efforts have been made by police to stop the riots in London and across the UK over the past three days. I watch and read the news with disgust. Especially, when I see my local town, Ealing Broadway struck by flames.

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Mobile Health plus mobile marketing is on its way, really

There is an excellent article in Mobile Health News. It is so good, infact, I wish I wrote it. Alas, I didn’t but it deserves a mention. It highlights the top ten mobile aquisitions by health firms for mobile marketing suites.

Here is an extract and then read the article from the link below:
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Love fashion? Love mobile? Sign-up for Teez Me

If you love mobile and work in fashion you need to sign up for Teez.Me now! Its a simple and elegant mobile marketing platform. It is tailored for the fashion industry and the company is just starting out. I got a brief last week and it struck a cord.
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Can micro-payments work for mobile news? ImpulsePay is betting on it

Last year, I interviewed an absolutely fascinating mobile payments enabler in the UK called ImpulsePay. It is probably the leading provider of the UK’s Payforit service – a single, universal and almost entirely unheard-of mobile payments system that every major mobile operator in the UK agreed to create. Today, ImpulsePay has announced a new service called PublishPay; a mobile publishing service designed to help content providers generate revenue from mobile media. Continue reading

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