iPad, tablets clearly disrupting PC market, survey finds
A survey conducted recently by Google-owned AdMob found that tablets are eating into the quality time U.S. consumers spend with their desktop and laptop PCs …
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Google on Android: mobile search grew 300%, 160,000 activations daily, 70,000 Market apps
Google announced its second quarter 2010 earnings on Thursday, and the earnings conference call painted a rosy picture of the current state of Android. According …
FTC to formally investigate Apple's iPhone policies
According to a new report, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have come to an agreement that the latter will open a …
Feds taking a close look at Apple's mobile advertising policies
Surprise! The U.S. government is once again going to throw Apple under the microscope and investi alleged anti-competitive practices, this time for the new language …
AdMob's founder criticizes Apple
In a post on his blog this morning, AdMob founder Omar Hamoui lambasted Apple for anti-competitive behavior pertaining to the most recent changes to section 3.3.9 …
Revised iOS ad policy cuts independents a break, makes it tougher for Google
It comes as no surprise — since Steve Jobs hinted at it during D8 — that Apple has once again revised the controversial section 3.3.9 …
Google formally completes its acquisition of AdMob
Six months after it first put in a bid of $750 million, Google today formally completed its acquisition of mobile ad giant AdMob. This news …
AdMob: iPhone OS outnumbers Android 2:1 in the US
According to AdMob’s April 2010 Mobile Metrics Report, the number of iPhone OS devices in the US outnumber the amount of Android devices by a …
FTC green-lights Google AdMob deal
The Federal Trade Commission had been investigating Google’s bid to buy mobile advertising firm AdMob…that is until today. In an official statement, the FTC wrote, …
Schmidt candid about AdMob, Apple on the eve of I/O 2010
On the eve of I/O 2010, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made some pretty interesting comments to Reuters. First and foremost on his mind was AdMob, …
U.S. Symbian users 2.7 times more likely to click mobile ads than iPhone users
According to mobile ad firm Smaato, U.S.-based Symbian users are 2.7 times more likely to click on a mobile ad than their iPhone OS using …
Federal antitrust probe of Apple extended to include iAd
According to The Wall Street Journal, the federal antitrust probe looking into alleged anti-competitive practices by Apple has been extended to include an investigation of …
Apple's launch of iAd could aid Google in aquiring AdMob
If your bid to acquire a company is being questioned by the FTC for “anticompetitive” reasons, you have to love when another high-profile company decides …
Apple rumored to introduce iAd on April 7th
Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt might have been able to put their differences aside yesterday as they enjoyed a cup of coffee, but the ol’ …
AdMob: Smartphone traffic is up in a big way
No, you haven’t been imagining things: everyone and their grandma has indeed been using a smartphone to surf the web. From February 2009 to February 2010, …
Apple set to purchase mobile ad company Quattro Wireless?
It looks like Apple is getting ready to take on Google in the mobile ad space as the latter had recently purchased AdMob for $750 …
AdMob issues June report; 46% of iPhone/iPod touch users are outside the US, Android OS share balloons
Oui oui! In its latest mobile metrics report, AdMob takes a look at the geographic distribution of the iPhone and iPod touch for the first …
AdMob issues April smartphone web usage report; iPhone dominates HTML, Symbian needs a new browser
AdMob, a leading mobile ad service provider, issues mobile metrics and analysis each month and today it has released April data. Key points from AdMob’s …
