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Samsung Pursues the Ad Market on Its Mobile Devices

Mobile phone heavyweight Samsung Electronics Co. is playing a more hands-on role in the advertising on its devices, underlining the growing potential many companies see in mobile ads.

Mobile Social Ads Not Working Yet? How About Making Users Pay to Advertise Themselves.

MyYearbook’s latest business model experiment is a mobile credits program where users can pay to promote themselves to other users.
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Opera Acquires Two Mobile Ad Networks

Browser maker Opera said late Wednesday that it has acquired two mobile advertising networks: London-based 4th Screen Advertising and San Francisco-based Mobile Theory. Opera said the moves should help the company “better monetize the traffic” from its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers.

That Ad Slowdown Hasn’t Hit Google

Lots of ad folks say the past few months have been tough. Looks like that doesn’t apply to search ads.
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eBay Bets on Social Commerce With Acquisition of the Gifts Project

EBay is announcing this morning that it has bought a company to bolster its efforts in social commerce.
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When It Comes to Mobile Advertising, iPhone Still the Biggest Target

Beyond the iPhone, though, the landscape has shifted significantly in the past couple of years, according to quarterly studies from Millennial Media.
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Map Reveals the U.S. Divided … Between Android States and iPhone States

The folks at mobile ad firm JumpTap have put together a fun map dividing the U.S. into states where the iPhone is overrepresented, states with more than the typical amount of Android phones and some states still leaning BlackBerry.
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Talking Mobile With Google’s Jason Spero and AOL’s David Temkin

In two recent onstage interviews, AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried had a chance to put top mobile executives from AOL and Google in the hotseat. And just like the NFL, we have video replay.
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American Express Hires Googler as CEO for Flash Sales Joint Venture

Vente-privee.com, a French-owned flash sales site with about 13 million members and more than $1 billion in European sales, has formed a joint venture with American Express to enter the U.S.
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FTC Plans New Online-Ad Rules

The Federal Trade Commission has begun soliciting public comment on how it should revise more than decade-old guidelines that translate federal advertising laws to the Internet, as the agency moves to more aggressively police digital ads.

FCC Greenlights First Ad-droid Phone