Posted on October 9, 2008 by rayand
It looks like the swing towards “ad funded everything” is quickly coming to an end, and there is a trend back in the direction of selling products and services to users.
“Ad funded” for many businesses really meant “shareholder funded in the hope of later monetization”. Meanwhile, people actually selling things were ignored – that was thought too “dirty” or “difficult”. However, in difficult economic conditions, remember the Yorkshire expression: “where there’s muck there’s brass”.
Filed under: Payforit, business, mobile payment, mobile web, off portal | Tagged: advertsing, analytics, appstore, bango, ecommerce, google, itunes, mobile analytics, mobile content, mobile payment, music sales, payment, symbian, yahoo | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 18, 2008 by rayand
According to Apple, sales of software in the iPhone App store were $30 million in July.
“This thing’s going to crest at half a billion, soon,” Jobs told the Wall Street Journal: iPhone Software Sales take off. “Who knows, maybe it will be a $1bn marketplace at some point in time. I’ve never seen anything like [...]
Filed under: business, hassle elimination, mobile payment, mobile web, off portal | Tagged: off-deck iphone apps on-deck off-portal mobile payment | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 29, 2008 by rayand
“Mobile web browsing is something of a dead end.” – according to an article in The Register at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/china_mobile_vodafone_widgets/
which is all about Vodafone and China Mobile working together on some sort for widget project.
I don’t think so. Mobile browsing is taking off fast. 100 fold growth in UK in last 4 years, everybody in Japan and Korea does it. [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by rayand
The flight back from CTIA was taken up by trying to “close off” as many actions as possible by emails, and then on lying back and reviewing what I had seen at the show – ready to report back to all the people who would say “so how was CTIA?”.
In a word: Quiet
CTIA has traditionally [...]
Filed under: Trade Shows, US Mobile Market, business, mobile web, off portal | Tagged: ctia shows premium-sms | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 8, 2008 by rayand
It’s not Big Brother, but with the launch of Bango Analytics this week, mobile website owners will now get a unique view on who their visitors are and what they are doing. Also it’ll provide valuable information on how mobile ads are performing, right across different ad networks. All this is done without revealing any [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2007 by rayand
Just picked up some news on the Bango Forums that Monstermob has gone into administration.
( http://forums.bango.com/viewtopic.php?t=210 ) Bango was one of the first companies to enter the mobile content business. Three years ago they bought one of Bango’s early customers, Phunky Phones, who was at that time was very small but was a fast growing mobile [...]
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