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During advance08, Microsoft’s online advertising leadership forum held in Redmond, the company announced that display advertising (banner ads) was now available across two Windows Live for mobile services, and also “the launch of new markets for Windows Live for mobile services and upcoming advertising plans for its Live Search Mobile offering.”

Opera published some very interesting data yesterday regarding Opera Mini users’ habits. They looked at aggregate and anonymous traffic of more than 44 million cumulative Opera Mini users worldwide.

oMoby - New Mobile Visual Search Company

Posted by Nadir on March 19th, 2008

Bena just got a tip off on a new mobile visual search company called oMoby. There’s no information about the service yet on their website but this should be coming soon. I’m looking forward to it.

AdSense Mobile, by AdMob

Posted by Nadir on March 12th, 2008

Admob will probably have some troubles with Google. See the title of the ad from AdMob that came up when I searched for “Adsense mobile”

Opera Mini announced today that Google will now be its default mobile search engine. A Google search box will be present on top of Opera Mini Start Page. This deal will definitely help Google increase its mobile search market share. Opera said that most of its traffic is generated from the search function on its […]

Nokia to add Google Mobile on its handsets

Posted by Nadir on February 12th, 2008

Nokia has its own mobile search application, embedded in some of its cell phone models. The application currently provides shortcuts to Yahoo! OneSearch, Microsoft Live Search Mobile, Baidu and Yandex.

Up until now, TeliaSonera, the largest mobile network operator in Finland and Sweden, was using MotionBridge (acquired my Microsoft in 2006) for their on-portal search service. I’ve heard from an inside source that in the 2 weeks, TeliaSonera will relaunch a brand new search service on their WAP portal in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. TeliaSonera […]

Yahoo and AT&T Sign Mobile Advertising Deal

Posted by Nadir on January 30th, 2008

Yahoo! announced today that it is partnering with AT&T to provide mobile ads to AT&T’s 70 million mobile customers. According to Reuters: