The opening session of the European Association of Directory Publishers (EADP) conference in Mallorca, Spain was designed to open people's minds about how mobile and social can and should be used to the advantage of directory companies. Jullien Billot of…
You've probably heard by now that Microsoft has acquired Skype in an all cash deal for a whopping $8.5 billion. It's Microsoft's largest acquisition to date, and a killer exit for Andreessen Horowitz and others who made a then-controversial late…
JiWire, the mobile Wi-Fi network reaching 40 million users each month, announced today that it raised $20 million in funding led by Trident Capital. In the past year, JiWire expanded its business to enable advertising across both mobile applications and…
xAD is becoming quite the contender in the emerging crop of mobile local ad networks. Loosely in the same category as WHERE and CityGrid, the company works with mobile publishers and advertisers to place ads that have local relevance and…
Following posts over the past week (here and here) about app development and adoption, Germany-based research2guidance is out with fresh data showing that Android will overtake iOS in app volume by August 2011. The intersection will happen around 425,000 apps,…
In what's sure to be a controversial title (and a bit misguided), Forrester has released a report called "Why The 'Web Versus Application' Debate Is Irrelevant To Your Mobile Product Strategy." More of a headline grabber than an actual premise,…
I've been watching over the past few days as three separate studies were released, each with a different angle on the growth of mobile apps. These are generally orbiting the AppNation conference that took place this week in San Francisco.…
In an increasingly connected multi-device world, all things cloud-based are getting lots of attention. For the same underlying reasons, social sharing is hot. That includes everything from Tweets and status updates to photo sharing apps like Instagram. A mashup of…
Google has released results of a study filled with positive results on smartphone usage. Known as "The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Users," it focuses on search and search-related ad performance. According to the study, 71 percent of smartphone users search…
Foursquare Cofounder Dennis Crowley spoke at Where 2.0 yesterday on the ongoing theme of innovating "beyond the check-in." Though lots of companies have taken this in directions such as checking in to TV shows, he remains focused on the "relationship between…
Chicago-based Groupon is pushing hard in Silicon Valley to build a major tech presence on the back of Mobility, a mobile services firm purchased last year. One piece of evidence: a billboard on the 101 touting the company as a…
You may have heard by now that eBay has acquired WHERE for an undisclosed sum -- continuing an acquisition streak of companies that appear to triangulate a mobile local strategy (Milo, RedLaser, WHERE). There is lots to talk about here…
This week, we release a report that takes a closer look at some of the content that was shared on our ILM East stage last month. This is part one of a three-part series that plucks the biggest and best…
BIA/Kelsey moderated a panel on "the Out-of-Home User Experience" (click on image for link to streaming video) at MediaPost's Digital Out-of-Home Forum (DOOH) in New York. DOOH is the third-fastest growing ad medium after mobile and online video. Paul Lindstrom,…
Instant deals designed for mobile consumers on the go look like the next big extension in the deals space. LivingSocial told AllThings D that it is offering instant $1 “Walk In” deals for lunch in its headquarters city of Washington,…
A few weeks ago I mentioned GoldRun briefly when talking about a panel I moderated at Mediabistro's Socialize conference. CEO Vivian Rosenthal opened my eyes to the possibilities for her flagship app that blends mobile, local discovery, augmented reality and game…
Marchex announced today that it would pay up to $62.5 million in cash and stock for Jingle Networks, the 1-800 FREE411 ad supported service. With the addition of Jingle Networks, the Marchex Call Advertising Network will now have an annualized…
Actually, Hotpot isn't going anywhere, it's just shedding its name and being swallowed by Google Places. According to the Official Google Blog: It’s been incredibly exciting to watch Hotpot grow—the community has quickly expanded to millions of users who are…
A BIA/Kelsey case study will publish soon for subscribers about the much-vaunted, much rebuked launch of Color. I've been traveling and avoiding the discussion until I got to actually use the app. For those unfamiliar, Color is a location-based photo…
At first I thought this has to be an April Fools' joke. But hitting my inbox today, the date seems to be off. So as far as I can tell, it's real. Mobile Ad network Adzookie is offering to basically…
