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Going for a Zong – eBay buys mobile payer
Rating: High hopes of addressing four billion phone users
It seems that at least one US based giant, eBay, has recognised the value of having a mobile arm which can process payments for mobile phone users. Consequently, it has announced its intention to buy the mobile-payments company, Zong, for about $240 million. The advantage is that Zong possesses connexions with over 250 different mobile operators in 45 countries worldwide. eBay already has a payments arm, PayPal, and the company is obviously hoping that Zong will help build its position in mobile payments. PayPal virtually disenfranchises the young and the unbanked – two of the most important sectors amongst mobile phone users. The question is – who will be next? Android fans find it incredibly hard to make purchases from the Android Market, so maybe Google should have bought Zong, perhaps? And Bango surely must be an ideal target for anyone wanting to get into the mobile payments business. Continue reading
Posted in google, mobile payments
Tagged amazon, eBay, Facebook, myspace, paypal, Scott Thompson, Zong
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Mobile social networks: MocoSpace steps up for MySpace buy-out
The history of social networks is one of dizzying heights followed by desperate lows. Friendster and Bebo may still be around, but Facebook is the undeniable lord of the realm. Now MySpace, which was once claimed to get more hits than Google, is now being sold off by current owners News Corp. And America’s biggest mobile social network, MocoSpace, has declared it’s interest. Continue reading
Posted in Social Networking, mobile news
Tagged mobile, mobile social network, mocospace, myspace, social network
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Microsoft updates its My Phone backup service
Rating: Still only applies to Windows Mobile 6.0 and above
Whilst Microsoft’s My Phone app has recently been chosen as a finalist for the GSMA 2010 Best Mobile Internet Service, it is still restricted to a narrow band of Windows Mobile 6.0 and above handsets. Nevertheless, the company has now introduced an updated version, v1.6, which it claims is based on user feedback. A bit like Windows 7, really. Continue reading
Mobile voice searchers most often ask for Youtube, Facebook and MySpace
Mobile developer Vlingo runs a service that GoMo News has always been interested in: mobile voice control. The product allows you to access most of the core functions of your device simply by speaking at it – you can see our live demo of the service at CTIA 2009 here. One of those functions is mobile web search, where you can simply tell Vlingo what you want and at it will run a series of searches for it on the internet through your phone. Today, Vlingo has published its list of the 10 most popular mobile web searches that were run through Vlingo during 2009. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Search, Mobile applications, mobile news
Tagged Facebook, mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile internet, Mobile Search, Mobile Web, myspace, search, vlingo, voice search, youtube
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Offerpal Media extends it’s advertising network to iPhone mobile gaming
We got a heads up from Offerpal Media today. The company specialises in advertising to users of social networks like Facebook and Myspace. It monetizes apps for the millions of users of these sites, but now Offerpal has extended it’s platform to include game apps for iPhone.
Who are Offerpal?
If you’re a Facebook fan, then you’ve [...]
Posted in Games, Mobile Ad&Mktg, mobile news
Tagged Facebook, mobile advertising, Mobile Gaming, mobile monetization, myspace, offerpal
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MySpace and Virgin Mobile team up to bring the social network on-deck in India
Virgin Mobile customers can now get instant access to MySpace through Virgins vBytes portal in India. The social network will be clickable from all WAP-enabled Virgin handsets.
From the release:
Commenting on the partnership, Deval Parikh, chief officer, handsets and VAS, Virgin Mobile India, said, “We are thrilled to be the first to have partnered with MySpace [...]
Orange creates Social Networking portal in Orange World
Orange announced today that Europe’s leading Social Networking sites will be brought together and available in Orange World, allowing Orange users access to the popular functions from their favourite Social Networking sites in a single destination.
The news follows the completion of partnership agreements with MySpace, Facebook and Bebo whose members will be able to view [...]
Posted in Mobile Content, Mobile Messaging, Mobile Operators, Social Networking
Tagged bebo, DailyMotion, Facebppk, flirtomatic, IPTV, Meetic, Mobile TV, myspace, orange, orange world, Pikeo, Skyrock, Social Networking
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Vodafone teams with MySpace to create online global interactive social networking platform
Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile community and MySpace, the world’s leading social network, today announced the launch of an online global interactive platform, “Vodafone Music Reporter“, which will expand Vodafone’s music activity and continue to deliver a unique music experience to Vodafone customers. The “Vodafone Music Reporter“….
…interactive profile, hosted on MySpace, builds on the successful [...]
Update your social sites and your virtual life via your mobile device with CellSpin.
Rating: I’m spinning around, move out of my way…
If your a social networking junkie like me and can’t keep off Facebook or my bands new Myspace page (yes, what’s that..yes I know its boring..well it is myspace after all!!) then this added feature to CellSpin might be for you. CellSpin is a rich media sharing [...]
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Tagged audio, BlackBerry, Blogger, CellSpin, eBay, Facebook, flickr, Live Journal, livespaces, myspace, Picasa, pictures, Rich media sharing application, Slashphone, Social Networking, Stumbleupon, symbian, text, video, Windows Mobile, youtube
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OpenSocial Yahoo!, MySpace and Google
More proof developers rule www.opensocial.org.
So GoMo News advice to anyone not sure of what to do with their lives – grow your hair, forget to shave and sign up for a developer programme.
Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google today announced they have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as [...]
Posted in Branded Mobile Search, Mobile Content, Mobile applications
Tagged developers, google, mobile, myspace, open social, opensocial, Yahoo
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3BILL Acquires Social Network – Faces.com
3BILL, the mobile division of Symbios Group, has confirmed today that it has acquired leading social network platform – http://www.faces.com
The acquisition includes all of the assets owned by the company, transfer of the lucrative domain http://www.faces.com, user base and the intellectual property operating the platform. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Originally launched in [...]
Posted in Mobile Content, Social Networking
Tagged , 3bill, faces.com, flash, mobile, mobile social networks, myspace, tunefeed
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Mobile social networking, LBS friend finder or mobile 2.0 what?
There is a lot of confusion surrounding mobile social networking, the introduction of LBS into social communities and friend watching services such as Twitter. Are they all from the same fruit?
Social networking
Social networking is when users promote themselves communicate with friends via a community such as bebo, Facebook or MySpace. The mobile versions of these [...]
Posted in Featured, Mobile Content, Mobile applications, Social Networking, mobile video
Tagged bebo, buzzd, community, Facebook, google, hot or not, LBS, Loopt, mobile, mobile social networking, myspace, oneConnect, opensocial, orange, radar, ruff or buff, shozu, video communities, Yahoo, youtube, zannel
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Mobile Advertising: Blyk (the hairspray) vs MySpace ads
Rating: that’s bad… NO! That’s Good.
This morning, I was up extremely early to get a flight. I checked the wires as I knew Blyk was launching today, but I couldn’t make the event. To my surprise I saw MySpace launching free ad-funded mobile site.
My first thoughts – nothing is a coincidence in the mobile space.
So I have landed and I tested blyk.co.uk and lo and behold it worked. You can check out the new website and I will write up an analysis in Mobile 2.0.
But, I thought. Let me be a bit different and interview some people about Blyk and MySpace.
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Mobile social networking has 12.3m friends in US and Western Europe
Rating: still a case of Billy No-Mates, relatively speaking
M:Metrics has released its first measurement of mobile social networking, announcing that 12.3 million consumers in the US and Western Europe accessed a social networking site by phone in June.
The American audience for mobile social networking sites was the largest, with 7.5m, or 3.5%, of mobile subscribers. [...]
Posted in Mobile Stats, Social Networking
Tagged Facebook, mobilei social networking, myspace
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