The BuzzCity mobile advertising network has announced an agreement with Bitstream to deliver mobile advertising on Bitstream's BOLT mobile browser.

In a not-to-be-missed saga of impending world domination, Christopher Backeberg extracts the essence of about a zillion news reports, reviews and analyses on the launch of Facebook Places last week and its implications for location-based services (LBS)...

Mobile coupons are more effective than the use of checkins in location-based advertising, according to new research by JiWire.

Both RIM and Millennial Media have declined to comment on growing business intelligence speculation that RIM wants to buy the Baltimore-based mobile ad network.

Apple has announced that it will close the Quattro Wireless ad network on September 30 and concentrate only on its own iAd service.

A study by ABI Research suggests that mobile marketers will have to start rethinking their strategies because downloads from app stores will go into a decline after 2013.

The Medialets mobile advertising and analytics agency has received $5.9 million in new funding. The deal has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Google has received the all-clear to proceed with its acquisition of AdMob for $750 million. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has closed its investigation of the planned deal.

The newest developments in campaign performances, forecasts, apps and services indicate that now would be an excellent time to invest in location-based mobile coupons, reports Christopher Backeberg...

Location-based advertising (LBA) has been discussed at length for many years and Gartner is forecasting that the overall mobile advertising segment will become a $7.4 billion market by the end of 2014. But despite all the noise and announcements - not least the iAd platform Apple announced this month - very few campaigns have yet been run successfully, writes Thomas Hallauer...