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• Expect a lot of mobile mergers and acquisitions in 2012: Coady Diemar

  January 13, 2012

  Mobile merger and acquisition activity increased significantly last year and is expected to grow again in 2012 as mobile continues to be a key driver of consumer behavior, according to investment bank Coady Diemar Partners.

• Mobile paid search clicks, spend jump in Q4

  January 12, 2012

  Mobile paid search put in a stellar performance in the fourth quarter of 2011 with a pair of new reports indicating mobile’s share of paid clicks doubled during the period while retailers increased their mobile search spend by 269 percent.

• Mobile campaigns with store locator grow 47pc month-to-month: study

  January 12, 2012

  Mobile advertising campaigns that include a store locator function grew 47 percent month-to-month, according to a new study from Millennial Media.

• Android captures 83pc of mobile gaming: study

  January 11, 2012

  Android continues to lead the pack in mobile gaming with 83 percent of the activity taking place on the operating system, according to a study from MocoSpace.

• Mobile video anticipated to reach 390M consumers by 2016: study

  January 10, 2012

  Mobile video is on the rise and is expected to be accessible to 390 million consumers by 2016, according to a study from ABI Research.

• Samsung intent-to-buy nearly triples while iPhone remains a leader: study

  January 10, 2012

  Consumer interest in purchasing a Samsung smartphone has nearly tripled since the fall, while demand for the Apple iPhone remains strong even more than two months after the new iPhone 4S was released, according to new data from ChangeWave Research.

• Facebook's strength accelerates migration to apps: report

  January 10, 2012

  Consumers continue to spend more time in mobile applications than they do browsing the Web as they migrate traditional desktop behaviors such as going on Facebook to mobile devices, according to new research from Flurry Analytics.

• 30M consumers watch TV via mobile: Nielsen

  January 9, 2012

  A whopping 30 million consumers watch television content via their mobile phones, according to Nielsen.

• What mobile's 2011 M&A activity means for 2012

  January 4, 2012

  Mobile marketing was the most active segment within digital advertising for mergers, acquisitions and investments in 2011, according to a new report from marketing and media investment bank Petsky Prunier.

• Android controls 47pc of market share: comScore

  January 3, 2012

  The Android operating system still reigns supreme with 47 percent of market share, according to comScore’s latest mobile report.

• Popularity of mobile banking apps makes them cybercrime targets: McAfee

  January 3, 2012

  The largest level of mobile malware ever was recorded in 2011 and the trend is expected to continue in 2012 with cybercriminals increasingly turning their focus to mobile banking attacks, according to a new report from McAfee Labs.

• SMS more popular than taking photos, online browsing: Pew Research

  December 30, 2011

  SMS is a global phenomenon with 75 percent of mobile phone owners across 21 countries saying they text, according to a new report from Pew Research.

• Android app downloads catching up to iOS

  December 29, 2011

  Google's Android is on pace to compete head on with Apple's iOS next year when it comes to app downloads if recent download rates continue.

• Number of free apps grows at expense of paid apps: study

  December 28, 2011

  With an average of 88 percent of the top-ranked 250 iOS applications now free to download, ABI Research predicts it is possible all relevant iOS apps in certain categories will be free in a year.

• Apple's iOS loses smartphone share in France, Germany : study

  December 27, 2011

  Apple’s iOS operating system has lost share of smartphone sales across most of Europe, according to new study by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

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