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AdMob Witnesses 8 Billion Tablet Ad Requests In November, 2011. 700% y-o-y growth
The Mobile industry will go from 6 Billion connections today to more than 12 Billion by 2020
Public IT Cloud Services Spending to Reach $72.9 Billion in 2015
Only 0.5% of advertising dollars goes to mobile phones even though people spend more than 8% of their media time using them
428.7M mobile phones shipped in Q2, 2011
74% of app downloads in the U.S are from iOS & Android Devices
Mobile Search Advertising can be a $2 Billion to $3 Billion Market in 2012
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Location based services space is heating up, for sure! SCVNGR, a location gaming startup backed by Google and Highland partners, launched its free iPhone and Android app yesterday. The app differentiates itself by adding another key layer to the game mechanics of its competitors (foursquare and Gowalla), by introducing ‘challenges’ for users to play with each other. A business owner and their users could send you on a scavenger hunt where you’d solve challenges and/or riddles through user generated hints using your mobile device. 
Oprah mobile app for the iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms was officially launched yesterday. With this launch, the day time TV queen seems to be laying the foundation for a huge presence in digital media before she launches her own cable TV network (Oprah Winfrey Network), next year. The mobile app enables her ‘DevOtees’ to be clued into her anytime and from anywhere (just what they’ve been waiting for) 
Rhapsody’s new upgraded iPhone app lets US subscribers listen to songs on their iPhone/iPod/iPad, even when offline. The app allows users to cache songs on to their device and listen to them without a wireless or 3G connectivity. Users can download onto their devices their playlists from Rhapsody , and could soon be downloading individual songs from the service. 
Apptizer, an iPhone app recommendation service released a report that tracks the app preferences by their users on iTunes app store and recommends target categories for developers. According to them, Games and Entertainment apps enjoy high demand and developers could enhance ROI in these segments. The company claims there is both abundance and demand in these categories. Contrarily, books and education apps are dime a dozen but lack demand. Apps in the categories of productivity, utilities and social networking are areas of opportunities for developers, says Apptizer. 
Google Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, at a webcast said that the company has ‘Bet Big on Mobile’. It expects significant growth in its array of mobile services, with traffic of its core product, mobile search, witnessing a 5x increase over the last two years. Google Maps too has seen massive traction with nearly 50 million active users. Eventually, he said that Google will optimize all of its services for the Mobile Platform. 
