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Big Fish announced today that Bill Lee, a prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology investor, has chosen to join its Board of Directors. Big Fish's board is the only board that Bill Lee currently participates on as a Director for a company that he has not founded, which is significant given the caliber of the companies he touches. Bill's recent investments include Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA), Yammer, Posterous (acquired by Twitter), SpaceX, Tweetdeck (acquired by Twitter), Kelkea (acquired by Trend Micro), Hootsuite, Peel, Social Concepts (acquired by Big Fish Games), Playhaven, Appmakr, and Zaarly. He is also on the advisory board of i/o ventures (http://www.ventures.io) -- a San Francisco early stage startup program that focuses heavily on mentorship. "With the upcoming launch of its universal cloud gaming service and growth in the social mobile marketp... (more)

Irish Small Businesses get the Edge with Vodafone One Net

80% of Irish SMEs say improving relationships with customers is a key challenge 16th May 2012, Vodafone Ireland today announced the launch of Vodafone One Net, a completely new communications solution that merges all the flexibility of mobile and the benefits of fixed into one scalable phone system. One Net has over one million subscribers in other markets and now Irish SMEs can benefit from this unique mobile only solution. One of the key challenges currently experienced by 80% of Irish SMEs is improving relationships with customers[1] - Vodafone One Net is designed to help ma... (more)

Convenience & Mobile Ads Rank as Top Drivers of Mobile Phone Shopping Activities, According to Study by IAB Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence

The IAB Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence today released “The IAB Mobile Phone Shopping Diaries,” research that unveils that mobile advertising is a key driver of smartphone and feature phone shopping. This is second only to convenience, with survey participants agreeing that the proximity and capabilities of their mobile phone often make it “the easiest way” to carry out a particular shopping activity. This IAB Mobile Marketing Center study was conducted by On Device Research, gathering smartphone and feature phone users to create detailed “day in the life” diaries of their ... (more)

C-SAM and MasterCard Join Forces to Offer Mobile Wallet Solution in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa

C-SAM today announced a joint initiative with MasterCard (NYSE:MA) to offer a white label mobile wallet solution based on C-SAM’s flexible Mobile Transaction Platform (MTP) enabling seamless integration with MasterCard’s pre-paid platform, offers, PayPass Wallet Services and rich informational services. This integrated offering will provide an attractive, scalable and flexible mobile wallet solution to mobile operators, retail banks and payment providers in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa looking to launch a wide range of mobile contactless payment services blended with off... (more)

Research and Markets: Global and Chinese IC Substrate Industry Report, 2011-2012

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/mv8nq8/global_and_chinese) has announced the addition of the "Global and Chinese IC Substrate Industry Report, 2011-2012" report to their offering. In 2012, the global IC substrate market is expected to reach a value of USD8.67 billion. IC substrates mainly find application in PCs, mobile phones and base stations, with PC being the biggest consumer. CPU, GPU and Northbridge IC all employs FC-BGA packaging, featuring large packaging area, many layers and high unit price. CPU and GPU of smartphones use FC-C... (more)