Peter Kafka in Media on December 12, 2011 at 4:03 pm PT
Lots of ad folks say the past few months have been tough. Looks like that doesn’t apply to search ads.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 8, 2011 at 5:58 am PT
EBay is announcing this morning that it has bought a company to bolster its efforts in social commerce.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 12, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
Beyond the iPhone, though, the landscape has shifted significantly in the past couple of years, according to quarterly studies from Millennial Media.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 5, 2011 at 9:18 am PT
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.
Ina Fried in Mobile on July 29, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 27, 2011 at 7:29 am PT
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.
Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 27, 2011 at 1:53 pm PT
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.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 14, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
It’s one thing to measure the number of smartphones sold of each given brand or operating system. But adding up sheer numbers doesn’t always indicate how big the opportunity is for either app developers or advertisers.
New figures from Millennial Media indicate that the Android remains king of the heap when it comes to a vehicle for delivering ads, while the iPhone remains tops when it comes to making money for developers.
News Byte
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 8, 2011 at 4:02 pm PT
Stockholm-based
24MAS has acquired
THQ’s wireless division. The overlap between the two is not readily apparent: THQ Wireless develops mobile games and 24MAS is focused on mobile advertising, content distribution, cloud services and application hosting.
In a release, 24MAS said it was drawn to THQ’s distribution network, which includes deals with major carriers in more than 80 countries. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 26, 2011 at 9:26 am PT
The research firm sees mobile app revenue continuing to surge, reaching $58 billion in advertising and sales by 2014. To continue that growth, though, Gartner says applications will have to “grow up” as the Web gets more mobile savvy and browser-based apps get more capable.
