Tag: Google

Google launches AdMob toolkit for Windows Phone 7

Google have launched an AdMob beta SDK for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) so Windows app developers can get access to revenue and advertisers can exploit the new OS. The new Beta WP7 developers allows developers to integrate advertising into their applications, control where the ads appear, and what types of ads are shown in their…

Google unveils One Pass system for online content

Google has launched a new payment system that allows users to subscribe to online content for a 10% commission fee. Just one day after Apple made its App Store subscription service available to publishers, Google has already responded by announcing a similar service for its Android platform. The solution will also work in Web-based clients,…

Shake up at Google – Page is Chief and Brin is back on new products

Google co-founder Larry Page is to takeover as chief executive in April, and co-founder Sergey Brin is moved to new product development. The move is part of senior executive overhaul at the company to “streamline decision making” as it looks to bolster its position in the face of competition from fast-growing rivals such as Facebook.…

Android number 2 smartphone in US

comScore figures for the three month average period ending November 2010 shows a 6.4% increase for Android putting it firmly in second place ahead of the iPhone, and 7.5% behind RIM  in the US smartphone market, which itself has seen a phenomenal growth of 10% in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share 61.5 million…

Mobile ad platform Flurry gets a cash injection

There’s money in those mobile ad hills! Just a day after new ad platform MoPub received seed funding, smartphone application ads and analytics platform Flurry, gets $15 million in Series C round financing. The round was led by US Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures and included existing investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, InterWest, First Round Capital and Union…

New advertising platform launching in US

We normally ignore releases about new mobile advertising platforms, but this one made us sit up and take notice. MoPub – any company name with the word pub in it always gets our attention – is a new US ad serving platform start up created by ex employees of Google and AdMob, and is funded…

Google launches the Nexus S for Christmas

Google has launched its awaited second smartphone the Nexus S onto the market. The Nexus S comes less than a year after Google’s first mobile the Nexus One and it will be the first device to ship with Gingerbread aka Android 2.3. Phone features include a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip for non-contact payments, VOIP…

Google grabs majority of US mobile search revenue

Google will end 2010 with a 59% share of the $877 million US mobile advertising market, according to a new report from IDC. The US mobile-ad market, including search and display ads, has more than doubled since last year, when it reached $368 million in sales. IDC attributes the growth to companies devoting larger slices…

Smartphones now used by 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers

comScore’s quarterly mobile figures for the three months to October 2010 reveal that nearly 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers are on smartphones, and Android continues to grow with a substantial 6.5% growth rate in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older who use mobile devices,…

Isis shows the way for mobile NFC payments

It’s interesting to see that on the day that Google’s CEO announces a new mobile phone, complete with Near Field Communication (NFC) that the three US major networks launch a joint venture to promote NFC. Could they be linked? It’s also interesting to see how the US is going about using NFC in mobile compared…

Nexus Two coming this Christmas

The Google Nexus One launched earlier this year and removed from sale after a relatively short period is to have a successor and this time it’s a phone designed to make all the m-commerce gurus happy. Speaking at the current Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt revealed the new device, and…

Google AdSense now comes with added app ad slots

Google have integrated AdMob and AdSense and it’s good news all round, as both advertisers looking for new ad slots and app builders looking for extra revenue should be catered for from the off. It’s six months since Google finally acquired mobile advertising platform AdMob, and Google have celebrated the day by announcing that it’s…

Google mobile search up 500%

Mobile search is starting to make significant growth confirms Google, and Android users are responsible for much of that growth. It looks like all those millions of people sitting on their couch with their iPhones, watching TV and searching the Internet Movie Database for the name of the actor in the episode of The Bill…

Android makes huge gains in US Smartphone market

comScore’s August mobile figures are out and US smartphone ownership is up by a massive 14%, but it’s not great news for RIM or Apple. Following yesterdays Nielsen results today we have comScores August results and it confirms the decline in popularity of the BlackBerry and the rise of Android. The results include the  three…

iPhone gets some glasses

Google’s iPhone and iPad mobile search app now comes with Google Glasses added.  The image search technology will allow iPhone users to point their phone at an object and Google will do the search. The new feature – present in the Android app – uses the new technology to search for images taken from the…

Phone + Android = Google Phone? Nope

Where’s the clarity in the Android market? Google have just announced a use for it’s old Nexus One website as place for users to go to find “real” Google phones, but is that really any help? The www.google.com/phone site – previously occupied with Nexus One details – now has a list of “Google” phones, as…

50 billion mobile devices: Who’ll get rich?

With Ericsson forecasting 50 billion people and “things” connected to mobile networks by 2020 (4.5 billion today) where will the next disruption come from? 50 billion mobile devices: Who’ll get rich? is a set of perspectives from Silicon Valley, London and Belfast that were presented at a  MobileMonday Belfast& NISP CONNECT event last week (23…