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)
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)
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 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)
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)