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Apple’s iPhone delivers Q2 success even as global smartphone market stalls – Mobile Marketer

Apple’s Phone delivers Q2 success even as global smartphone
market stalls

Overall U.S. smartphone shipments fell 5 percent during the second quarter of 2012, with Android, BlackBerry and others all shipping less compared with the same quarter a year ago, according to new data from Strategy Analytics. The one exception was iOS, which saw smartphone shipments in the United States rise from 5.9 million units to 7.9 million units.
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Mobile Marketing Summit New York Sept. 13: Kraft Foods, Groupon, Barnes & Noble, HSN, Bloomberg and NBC News Digital
Registration is open for the Mobile Marketing Summit: Holiday Focus 2012 conference Thursday, Sept. 13 with speakers from Kraft Foods, Groupon, Barnes & Noble, HSN, Bloomberg and NBC News Digital. Must-attend New York event for brands, marketers, retailers, agencies and publishers.
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McDonald’s goes for mobile gold in London with 1M app downloads
McDonald’s is seeing strong results for its mobile efforts in Britain, with its
local smartphone application having achieved more than one million downloads in
less than 12 months.
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Obama, Romney rely on mobile apps for votes
Mobile applications are playing a bigger role for presidential campaigns this year as way to engage constituents and drive excitement around key developments, as evidenced by the release of new apps this week by the presidential campaigns for both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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Visa flaunts Olympic sponsorship through video-heavy mobile ads 
Visa is making mobile a big part of its Olympic sponsorship with an effort that
encourages consumers to get involved in the social-media driven Go World
campaign.
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AccuWeather hits new high for mobile Web, app traffic
AccuWeather recently recorded more than 17 million daily page views on its mobile site and 14 million application page views, showing the healthy appetite from consumers to access weather content through their handsets.
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Armani pushes Emporio lifestyle via EA7 apps – Luxury Daily
Luxury Daily today – Armani pushes Emporio lifestyle via EA7 apps; Barneys flaunts youth lifestyle association via shoppable video.
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Closing the case on ODIN
We think that forming an industry alliance to replace UDID is an unnecessary affront to the professionalism of Apple.
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