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Boku Raises $13 Million To Buy Paymo And Mobillcash; Launches Mobile Payment Service

A new mobile payments company is launching, using venture capital to buy its way into a strong market position. Boku has raised $13 million in two rounds of funding in the last week or so. The first round totaled $3 million and came from Khosla ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  15 Jun 2009

Mobile Content Bits: China Limits SMS; IPv6 For Verizon; IGoogle; Televisa; 100K Pre; Firethorn

—China Limits SMS To Combat Spam: China is limiting the amount of SMS that a number can send in a bid to combat spam. China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom have signed an agreement saying that one mobile number cannot send more than 200 messages ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  12 Jun 2009
Related Topics: China Telecom,  Google Inc.,  NYSE,  Best Buy Co., Inc.

Report: Mobile Phone Shipments Fell 11.9 Percent In First Quarter

Mobile phone shipments always fall from the fourth quarter to the first quarter, but this year the drop was particularly steep according to ABI Research, which reported that worldwide mobile phone shipments were 35 million fewer in the first quarter of ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  12 Jun 2009
Related Topics: AT&T Inc.

Singapore-Based I-Pop Raises $5 Million In First Round

Singapore-based mobile marketing firm i-Pop has raised $5 million in a first round of funding. The round was led by Mingly Corporation Singapore, with participation by Infocomm Investments, a fully owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  12 Jun 2009

Mobile Content Bits: Euro Manga; Japanese SNS; Orange UK Android; Mig33; UK Bits

—DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) Launches Euro Manga: DoCoMo Netherlands (subsidiary of the eponymous Japanese telco) will launch a mobile service for downloading manga, beginning today in France. Customers of French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom will be able to ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  11 Jun 2009
Related Topics: NYSE,  BBC

Nokia Launches Dance Fabulous For N-Gage

I haven’t seen the game, but the description ticks all the boxes of what games should include, at least according to current thinking. After the players customize their avatars and dance moves they can then show them off to their friends, bringing in ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  11 Jun 2009

France Telecom Looking At Buying Indian Operator Aircel

France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is seeking to buy a 20-25 percent stake in Aircel, which has about 19.6 million subscribers and is valued at between $7 billion and $8 billion, according to the Economic Times. The article says that France Telecom will end up ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  11 Jun 2009
Related Topics: France Telecom S.A.,  NYSE,  Maxis,  Telstra

AT&T Launches New Privacy Policy—Same As Old, But Clearer

AT&T (NYSE: T) has issued a new privacy policy intended to be clearer and more explicit about the information the company collects and what it does with it. Dorothy Attwood, AT&T’s chief privacy officer, told the NYT that “this effort didn’t really ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  11 Jun 2009
Related Topics: NYSE

Mobile Content Bits: Discovery Mag; DoCoMo LTE; Mills & Boon; Peoplesound; MeetMoi

—Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Mag Gets Mobile: The Discovery Channel Magazine in Asia has started using ZapCodes from Colorzip. It involves a color-coded square included with the articles, which people take a picture of and send in to receive extra content. ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Discovery Channel,  NYSE

Atlantic Tele-Network Buys Ex-Alltel Assets For $200 Million

Salem, Mass.-based Atlantic Tele-Network (ATN) will acquire some of the ex-Alltel markets Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) was forced to divest as part of its take-over of Alltel (NYSE: AT). ATN is paying about $200 million for 800,000 subscribers in rural ...

From JAMES QUINTANA PEARCE, MocoNews.net,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Alltel,  NYSE,  Federal Communications Commission

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