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By MobileCrunch, on May 15th, 2012%
 Social video network Twitvid has closed another acquisition today, following its March deal which involved bringing the team from daily deals aggregator Frugalo on board. Today, the company is announcing it has acquired Cull TV , an independent music video sharing site, which CTO John Hurliman describes as a little bit like Pandora mixed with MTV. Cull TV, founded in early 2011, currently offers a catalog of some 2 to 3 million videos, with 100 brand-new ones appearing per day. . . . → Read More: Personalized Music Video Service Cull TV Acquired By Twitvid, Cull CEO Departs
By MobileCrunch, on May 15th, 2012%
 Last month, mobile marketing company Velti reported that iOS had pulled slightly of Android in mobile ad impressions , after being tied at the end of last year. Now, apparently, iOS has taken widened that lead, if not by much — it accounted for 55 percent of mobile ad impressions in April, compared to 45 percent for Android. The data is based on data from Velti’s Mobclix Exchange, which serves ads to more than 33,500 apps, the company says. . . . → Read More: Velti: In Mobile Ads, iOS Widens Its Lead Over Android
By engadget, on May 14th, 2012%
 Maybe it was inspired by the other app’s most recent update, or perhaps by Zuck’s newly-minted commitment to mobile applications. Regardless, Facebook’s redesigned its iPhone / iPod and Android apps along with its pocket-sized site, clearly taking some design tips from none other than its fresh acquisition , Instagram. As you can see in the image above, the news feed is now showing one large post rather than the usual two or three (at least on the iPhone / iPod variant), this mainly due to pictures now being up to 3X larger than before . . . → Read More: Facebook redesigns mobile site and apps, takes a tip (or two) from Instagram
By MobileCrunch, on May 14th, 2012%
 In its first-ever earnings report as a publicly traded company, mobile advertising network Millennial Media said its net loss for the first quarter widened to $4 million on increased costs. Revenues were up 53 percent year-over-year to $32.9 million. Millennial’s shares fell by 7.7 percent in after-hours trading, as the company’s annual forecast missed estimates. For the year, Millennial is looking at $173 million and 176 million in annual revenues, which would be up by 68 percent from the year before. . . . → Read More: In First Report As A Public Company: Millennial Media’s Net Loss Widens To $4M, Revenues Up 53%
By MobileCrunch, on May 14th, 2012%
 Remember Jitterbug , the big-buttoned phones for seniors that made using those confusing, new-fangled cellphone thingies so much easier to handle? Well it looks like someone has gone out and built the equivalent for the iPad. Which literally made me laugh out loud when I read the news, because the iPad is the first computer I’ve ever seen seniors adopt in droves. . . . → Read More: Remember Jitterbug Phones For Seniors? Here’s The iPad Equivalent
By MobileCrunch, on May 14th, 2012%
 Thing have looked grim for upstart wireless service provider LightSquared ever since the FCC officially withdrew their conditional approval to build out the terrestrial part of their LTE network, and now it seems like it may all come to an end. After the demise of their partnership with Sprint , the resignation of CEO Sanjiv Ahuja, and the laying off of nearly 45% of their employees , Bloomberg reports that the Virginia-based company has just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. For those who haven’t followed the entire sordid series of events, LightSquared was formed in 2010 with the intention of creating a wholesale 4G LTE network that other companies could tap into or resell as they desired. . . . → Read More: Wholesale Wireless Service Provider LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy
By MobileCrunch, on May 14th, 2012%
 Watch out for falling prices! Verizon Wireless just cut the price of the RAZR Maxx to an attractive $199 . . . . → Read More: Droid RAZR Maxx Cut To $199 At Verizon Wireless, Source Says RAZR Price Cut To Follow
By MobileCrunch, on May 14th, 2012%
 Samsung confirmed well in advance of the Galaxy S III’s official announcement that their new flagship Android handset would sport the company’s new Exynos 4 Quad chipset, but it seems even clearer now that we Stateside phone geeks may have to live without it. Droid-Life reported over the weekend that a benchmark entry for the Verizon-bound Samsung SCH-i535 appeared on Nenamark, and it seems to confirm rumors that Big Red’s Galaxy S III will indeed sport a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor. Nenamark’s site doesn’t specifically call out the Snapdragon S4 as the processor in question, but the evidence is nothing to sneeze at — the entry makes reference to the chipset’s 1.5GHz clock speed and the inclusion of the Adreno 225 GPU. . . . → Read More: Goodbye, Exynos: Benchmark Points To Dual-Core Processor For Verizon’s Galaxy S III
By MobileCrunch, on May 14th, 2012%
 What does it mean when Facebook says it has 901 million monthly active users on its network? According to figures out from the International Telecommunication Union, it effectively signifies that Facebook is the world’s largest social network by a very long shot. The ITU says in a new report that that the number of people using all social media services have passed the 1 billion mark . . . → Read More: ITU: There Are Now Over 1 Billion Users Of Social Media Worldwide, Most On Mobile
By MobileCrunch, on May 14th, 2012%
 Mobile carrier NTT Docomo today announced a move in its strategy to grow its content business outside of its traditional base of Japan: it issued a tender offer to acquire Buongiorno, a mobile content company based in Italy, paying up to ¥24 billion ($300 million) for the assets. Docomo notes in a statement that the acquisition would be made by its Germany-based subsidiary, Docomo Deutschland, and that Maruo del Rio, Buongiorno’s majority shareholder and chairman with 20 percent of Buongiorno’s stock, has already agreed to sell his stake to the carrier. . . . → Read More: NTT Docomo Will Pay Up To $300M To Buy Italian Mobile Content Company Buongiorno
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