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Articles tagged with: Mobile Content
TIM Brazil to Launch Qualcomm Supplied App Store Early Next Year
TIM Brazil and Qualcomm have announced a joint agreement to launch the first multi-platform wireless applications store in Latin America. more
Related Tags: tim-brazil, qualcomm, app-store, flash, Brazil
IMImobile Wins Mobile Content Agreement from MTN
South Africa based MTN has inked a mobile content deal with India's IMImobile covering its 21 markets. The appointment of IMImobile as its managed services and hosting partner follows a review of MTN's mobile content and media services landscape. more
Nokia Buys Travel Oriented Mobile Social Networking Service
Continuing its tendency to buy up smaller mobile content companies, Nokia has announced that it has acquired Dopplr Oy, a privately-held mobile service provider for international travellers. Dopplr has a team of seven people with offices in London and Helsinki. more
Mobile application sales to hit $16 billion per year by 2013
The number of smartphones sold each year will increase from around 165.2 million in 2009 to 422.96 million in 2013, with the total number of smartphone users approaching 1.6 billion, according to Wireless Expertise, an UK-based wireless market research and consulting firm. Its latest report says that smartphone penetration will reach approximately 28-30% of the total mobile market by 2013. more
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Connectivity Becomes Major Contributor to Mobile Revenue Growth in Mexico
Data services in Mexico will grow to represent 25 percent of the total market in 2014 from 15 percent in 2009, as connectivity becomes one of the most dynamic contributors to total mobile revenue growth in the coming years, according to the latest report from Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: broadband, Mexico
Print Publishers Ready to Capitalize on Mobile Market
Print publishers are increasingly focusing on the mobile market as a prime opportunity to expand their brands, reach new audiences and generate additional revenue, reports a new survey from the USA's Audit Bureau of Circulations. more
DoCoMo Launches Takeover of German Mobile Content Distributor
Japan's DoCoMo has announced an agreed takeover of Germany based mobile content distributor, net mobile AG. The company is offering , EUR 6.35 per share for all outstanding shares of net mobile. The offer price represents a 53.9 percent premium over the three-month average weighted share price prior to this announcement and a 34.2 percent premium over the closing price on September 10, 2009. more
Related Tags: docomo, presence, Germany
UK mobile content providers profit from booming US market
UK based mobile billing supplier, Bango says that the lure of the growing US mobile market is proving to be rewarding for many of the UK's mobile content brands. UK market leaders including Flirtomatic, Mobile Streams and Animation FC have all launched in the US and are profiting from the availability of mobile search and advertising inventory along with mobile web payments covering both on-bill and credit cards to maximize revenues. more
Related Tags: bango, mobile-billing, mobile-streams, hotspots, billing, base, three, wap, USA
Southeast Asian mobile sector to surpass 453 million subs, US$32 billion in 2009
Southeast Asia's (SEA) mobile users are expected to hit 453.3 million subscribers by the close of this year, growing 18.4 percent over 2008. Billings are estimated to grow by 13.6 percent year-on-year to top US$32 billion by year-end. more
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Smartphone Downloads from All App Stores to Reach 6.67 Billion in 2014
Smartphone penetration in the U.S. mobile markets is increasing rapidly. For some time, mobile operators have been offering a branded 'catalog' of mobile content and services that could be purchased from the handset itself. However, all that is changing for smartphones, in which newer types of targeted app stores are being introduced to enable the device owner to purchase content from outside the operator environment. The availability of a large number of inexpensive or free mobile applications that leverage the next-generation technical capabilities of the target device will help drive adoption. However, in the end, service differentiation and generating suitable return on investment from the app store business could be challenging. more
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