MocoSpace focuses on the mobile Web, instead of mobile apps, reasoning that because the mobile Web works across all smartphones and some feature phones, this will allow it to attract more users to its network regardless of platform.
Only the biggest firms spread their resources equally and liberally between mobile web and mobile apps.
But the mobile Web, mobile browsers, and the nature of mobile apps are changing fast.
ChaCha has also been tweaking its other products, which span mobile apps (iPhone and Android), the mobile web, mobile texting, Twitter, Facebook and 1-800 voice queries.
Just before the start of the Labor Day weekend it announced it was cutting off AdMob support for mobile web sites seeking to monetize their mobile web content and pushing them onto its AdSense ad platform.
The reason for this lies in the volatility that continues to erupt around the pillars of disruption that define the open mobile era: rapid development of mobile Web technology, insatiable consumer demand for mobile Web and data services, and an evolving policy debate that may finally introduce a more equitable market.
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This is exactly why focusing on developing a rich mobile web experience for your brand can pay off in the long run, especially since well-developed mobile web experiences are particularly well suited for tablet devices.
It opened their eyes to how fun, easy and productive using the mobile web and a mobile phone could be.
Then, before the iPhone, many experts said the small screen sizes and low data speeds of mobile devices made the mobile Web worthless and mobile video a total fantasy.
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Flurry predicts that smartphone users will continue to spend even more time proportionally with apps vs. the mobile Web -- and in fact, from June to December 2011, they observed that average daily time spent on the mobile Web decreased slightly.
In the last two months, the company hired two mobile developers, bringing its Web and mobile development staff to 15, said Debra Robinson, the company's chief information officer.
This summer, Go Daddy acquired Outright.com, a cloud-based financial management application and the company also formed a partnership with DudaMobile to launch mobile Website Builder, a service that automates the integration of Web and mobile sites to save businesses time and expand their customer reach.
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Going forward, we expect to see an increase in the proportion of the number of mobile to PC web page views (which in Asia grew to 20% in 2011 from 8% in 2010) and an increase in 3G and mobile web penetration.
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They have tended to stay within their preferred domains: print, motion, web and mobile.
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One differentiator for Flite is that its technology supports both web and mobile ads, Price says.
Brandon Gutman: Explain your decision to push video content into your various web and mobile platforms.
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Instead of having to rely on separate providers for web and mobile, publishers can just use one.
The company also reorganized its staff so that all teams have web and mobile developers working together.
To reverse this, Best Buy vows greater attention on tying Web and mobile shopping with the in-store experience.
San Francisco-based Trulia provides home listings through the Web and mobile applications, and makes money selling subscriptions and advertisements.
Which, in most cases, means you need a great Web or mobile developer.
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Such services allow developers to write applications for the web and mobile devices.
OPTiM is a known leader in web and mobile support solutions in Japan.
Zynga also on Thursday announced nine new game developers, bringing its total to 24 web and mobile gaming partners.
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Masmoo3 has published 40 books that users can access on the web, mobile apps as well as in the air.
Zynga has become synonymous with social gaming serving 311 million monthly active users, the largest player network on web and mobile.
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The competition is open to early-stage ventures from around the world from web to mobile, from double bottom line businesses to connected devices.
Or are you a seasoned netizen who welcomes the new fluidity that web and mobile applications are bringing to our lives and work?
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