Blogs
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The dos and don’ts of building and marketing your mobile site in China – guest blog by Mark Tanner, China Skinny
Submitted by Editor on 15 January, 2013 - 15:52.China’s 1 billion mobile subscribers are rapidly taking up the mobile Web. The number of mobile Web users is rapidly approaching 400 million users, according to CNNIC, while the Chinese operators report that they have more than 200m 3G (i.e. fast internet) subscribers.
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Most popular content on mobiThinking in 2012
Submitted by Editor on 4 January, 2013 - 15:03.Happy New Year
mobiThinking was visited by 808,559 unique visitors in 2012 (75 percent more than 2011) – what did they come to read? The top destination on mobiThinking in 2012 was the Compendium of global mobile stats with 975,298 pageviews (PV), followed by the Guide to mobile ad networks, Guide to the world’s top mobile markets, Guide to mobile awards and Guide to mobile agencies. Find the links to all the top content below…
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2013: The year nothing but mobile matters for any business selling in China – guest blog by Mark Tanner, China Skinny
Submitted by Editor on 20 December, 2012 - 17:04.Growth rates for almost everything in China are staggering, but few come close to the phenomenal rise of mobile.
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Strategies for securing the enterprise in a BYOD world – guest blog by Chris Swan
Submitted by Editor on 12 December, 2012 - 21:13.With so many execs with tablet devices on their Christmas list this year, CTOs will be under increased pressure in the New Year to formulate a strategy that allows employees to use their new toys at work.
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The 100 million club: the top 10 mobile markets by number of mobile subscriptions
Submitted by Editor on 16 November, 2012 - 11:43.UPDATE (December 13, 2012): Adds brand-new data on 3G subscriptions provided by Informa. Mobile subscriber numbers also updated for China, Brazil and Japan.
There are now 10 countries in the world with over 100 million mobile subscriptions, ranging from China with over a billion to Nigeria which passed the 100 million mark in August 2012. These are all documented in the table below. There are several countries such as Bangladesh and Mexico knocking at the door.1 comment
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Is the threat of a US $250-million class-action law suit enough to stop companies sending unsolicited text messages?
Submitted by Editor on 15 November, 2012 - 14:56.This week, lawyers were given permission by a US Judge at a court in Seattle to bring a class-action law suit against Papa John’s Pizza for allegedly sending unwanted text messages to customers across the US. This allows the lawyers to bring the case for any number of plaintiffs. If the case is proven, the food chain faces a potential bill for damages of over US $250 million.
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BLN Making it Mobile (MiM) Award: it’s free and ridiculously easy to enter, deadline for entry November 16, 2012
Submitted by Editor on 29 October, 2012 - 13:05.This is a great opportunity for young/start-up mobile companies to get some free exposure and see how you measure up to your contemporaries. As part of the BLN Making it Mobile Forum (London, November 16, 2012), the finalists will be given the platform to pitch their companies in front of the conference audience and the competition judges (which includes venture capitalists).
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There are one billion smartphones in use in the world – that’s all folks
Submitted by Editor on 18 October, 2012 - 14:07.The number of smartphones in use worldwide has now broken the 1 billion mark, according to Strategy Analytics. That is a stunning landmark… It is an awful lot of smartphones. It is equivalent to one seventh of the global population and one sixth of mobile phone subscribers.
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Mobile Web overtakes PC Web in China
Submitted by Editor on 17 October, 2012 - 12:57.China has reached another monumental milestone as the number of Chinese people accessing the Internet on a mobile phone has now surpassed the number accessing the Web using a PC.
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