Sean P. Aune


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Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of November 22nd

New site keeps track of those many talked about iPhone App Store rejections It seems like every week we hear some sort of wacky story about another app being denied approval for admittance to the hallowed halls of the iPhone App store.  The question has been what causes these rejections, what great crimes have these ...

Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of November 16th

Millennial Media releases data for October mobile engagement Millennial Media released its monthly SMART report about the engagement of mobile users with advertising supplied by the company. The good news is that the average user session held steady at 4 minutes, 46 seconds after 3 straight months of decline.  The average number of pages viewed per session ...

Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of November 9th

Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million In Stock Just in case you were in a coma this week: Google acquired AdMob for $750 million in stock on Monday. When the news hit on Monday we of course jumped on it to bring you some of our own thoughts, as well from our mobile sponsor, Millennial ...

MILLENNIAL MEDIA Secures $16 Million In Series C Funding

Update: CEO Paul Palmieri outlines the news on his blog here. On the heals of the recent Google acquisition of AdMob, the market leader in mobile advertising Millennial Media has announced that it has closed on a $16M Series C round of growth funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with existing investors Bessemer Venture ...

Google Acquires Gizmo5 Soft Phone Service

It looks like Google is on another buying spree! Earlier this week we carried the announcement that Google had purchased AdMob, and then that same day we got rumors that Google was purchasing Gizmo5. Fellow ANGLEr Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins did contact Google for a comment on that story, but they really didn’t comment one was ...

Rumor: Google To Purchase VoIP Solution Gizmo5

[Editor’s Note and Update: We got a response from Google on our story inquiry, though no confirmations or denials: “We’re always talking to various companies about various things, but we don’t comment on rumor or speculation.” –mrh] Rumors have begun circulating today that Google is about to announce the purchase of Gizmo5, but considering the ...

Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million In Stock

News broke this morning that Google is going to get more serious about mobile advertising with the announcement that the company has purchased AdMob, a provider of mobile advertising solutions. Google has long been the king of search engines and contextual advertising on the Web, but as mobile browsing and app engagement has continued to ...

Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of November 2nd

Millennial Media study shows mobile ad spending to increase in 2010 Millennial Media and DM2PRO.com, a knowledge base for digital media and marketing professionals, collaborated to explore of attitudes and spending plans of leading agencies and brands in 2010. There is no denying that mobile advertising is on the increase, and according to this new ...

Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of October 26th

Are you ready to develop for Windows XP? Are you ready to develop applications for a Windows XP-based phone? According to Gizmodo, the rumored xpPhone looks to be getting more real and they now have photos and specifications to back that up. Configuration • CPU: AMD Super Mobile CPU • Memory: 512M/1G • SSD: 8G/16G/32G/64G ...