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inMarket unveiled what it says is the first mobile network exclusively reaching shoppers making retail purchasing decisions. Simply called the inMarket Shopper Network, it combines the volume of brick-and-mortar retail with the performance accountability of online advertising in its hyper-targeted programs, which is apparently a concept only recently made possible through mobile. The CheckPoints rewards…
Rhapsody released a new application for Android tablets, making it even easier for its users to discover new music, read about their favorite artists and rediscover music with expert playlists, guides and features. According to Rhapsody’s Brendan Benzing, this isn’t just resized version of the smartphone app — rather the application was developed from the…
GREE, one of the largest mobile social gaming networks, announced its plan to hit over $1 billion in profit this year ($1,050,682,300 – $1,182,017,588) and over $2 billion in net sales ($2,101,364,601- $2,232,699,888). You may haven’t heard about GREE before, but you’re probably familiar with OpenFeint. Well, GREE has acquired OpenFeint in April 2010 and…
We told you consolidation is coming to Austria, and voila – the local branch of Hutchison Three has finally (started) acquiring Orange Austria, having agreed to pay 1.3 billion EUR to France Telecom which owns 35% stake and private equity investors Mid Europa Partners (65%). As part of the deal, Hutchison will sell frequencies, base…
Audience is a technology company that makes advanced voice and audio processing chips for mobile phones. Its products reduce background noise which makes talking on the phone pleasurable and using voice commands possible. Audience worked with HTC to put the A1026 processor in the Nexus One, and helped Apple integrate its chip into the iPhone…
You’ve probably heard about Telenav before because the company has been in the mobile navigation space for about a dozen years but it’s now trying to make a bigger push reaching out directly to consumers and I got a chance to see its recently-announced Scout personal navigation app in action. I have to say, it…
There’s a common stereotype that men are far more interested in the latest gadgets than women are. There’s perhaps no better example of this than Motorola’s marketing strategy for the Droid line of smartphones: keep it cool, badass and overly aggressive. A study entitled Women in CE from the Consumer Electronics Association, however, is finding that…
Popular music service provider, Rdio, today announced an update to its Android app. The new app brings some interesting additions like collections, playlists, new releases, top charts, recommendations, and support for Android 4.0’s new remote control client. Keep in mind that a Rdio membership is required to take full advantage of its music service, you can get the…
One of iOS’ premier zombie murdering first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies received an update over the weekend which allows players to spend even more money on the game by incorporating in-app purchases into the game. The new update allows players to “enhance their experience” by way of in-game point packs that can be…
CFO of HTC Winston Yung admitted the company “dropped the ball” in 2011 and its high-end devices are not selling as well as expected. This is due mostly to HTC’s hardware being substantially thicker than the competition and often having poor battery life. “While short term performance may not meet the results as expected, we…