Juniper: $12.7 Billion Global LBS Market by 2014
Juniper Research has released a report that projects the global mobile location based services (MLBS) to reach $12.7 billion by 2014. This is different in scope from BIA/Kelsey's forecast released…
Opera/AdMarvel: The Mobile Acquisitions Continue
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software today announced it will acquire mobile ad exchange AdMarvel for what TechCrunch is reporting to be $8 million in cash plus a $15 million earnout.…
Mobile Predictions (and Shameless Self Promotion)
Later this week, we'll publish reports across BIA/Kelsey's coverage areas that predict market trends and events of the coming year. Part of that involved looking back on past predictions to…
OpenTable Goes Mobile; 1 Million Served
Online restaurant booking success story OpenTable has started to make moves into mobile -- both building apps and distributing its reservation system to other app partners. This is a logical…
Mobilepeople to Power Trader Corp.’s Mobile Apps
Copenhagen-based mobilepeople has been making moves throughout North America over the past year, starting with its deal to power the DexKnows suite of mobile products for directory publisher R.H. Donnelley.…
BIA/Kelsey Podcast: The Week in Mobile News
The past week has seen a lot of action in the mobile space -- Droid release, AdMob acquisition, new BIA/Kelsey mobile data, etc. On Friday, we sat down to record…
IPhone: Lots of Apps, We Get It
Apple announced its latest app milestone today; crossing the six-digit mark. The previous milestone was 85,000 during the Q4 earnings announcement last month. It's clear that app development is accelerating:…
Center’d Launches iPhone App
I just received a note from Center'd that the company has extended its online local search and discovery engine to the iPhone. The app, available starting today, carries the new…
TKG Western Europe Mobile Forecast Releases Today
Today we released our Western Europe Mobile Search and Display forecast. This follows the February release of the U.S. mobile forecast, but takes a look at the collective mobile activity…
New TKG Mobile Report: To App or Not to App?
A new TKG report published today looks at some of the strategies behind mobile product development. Specifically, it tries to tackle the first question many companies run into: Which mobile…