Bango’s the best transactions provider, it’s official

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Sukey Miller

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Bango has won the ‘Best Transactions Provider’ at the Mobile Entertainment Awards 2011. Having been nominated for the sixth consecutive year, this is the third time Bango has picked up this prestigious ME award.

With Bango’s CEO Ray Anderson being recognised for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry in 2006, Bango went on to win the ‘Best Payment Provider’ in 2007, again in 2008, and now in 2011, a testament to the continued growth of Bango’s pioneering payments platform. Read more »

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Bango is an ME Awards finalist for sixth consecutive year

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Sukey Miller

Bango is an ME Awards finalist for sixth consecutive yearBango has been shortlisted for the Best Transactions Provider at the Mobile Entertainment Awards 2011, proving again that it is an innovative leader in the mobile payments field. This continues Bango’s run of being selected as a finalist every year since the ME awards began in 2006. Read more »

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Mobile payments from Bango increase GoSpoken.com eBook sales

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Beccy Blount

One-click operator billing delivers the highest conversion rates

Bango announces that it provides Mobcast, the digital book software platform, with operator billing for its mobile digital bookshop GoSpoken.com. This means book-loving customers worldwide have the option to quickly and easily pay for eBooks and place the charge on their phone bill. The Bango charge-to-bill technology even works when the device connects over Wi-Fi.

Mobcast developed GoSpoken.com after spotting the potential offered by the increasing numbers and capabilities of mobile phones. With thousands of bestseller titles available on the digital bookshop, customers are able to purchase eBooks and audio books from the extensive catalogue and download them across their phone, PC, tablet or eReader from as little as 50p / 50¢. Read more »

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Bango enables global payments for Opera Mobile Store

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Beccy Blount

Bango Inc. announces that it will provide mobile payment for the Opera Mobile Store. Through agreements between Bango and Opera, users of the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers will be able to purchase apps and pay for content within apps, placing the charges on their carrier bill or through a credit card using Bango’s browser-based payments directly from the mobile handset. Read more »

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Bango mobile payment embraces Canada to reach 200 million North Americans

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Beccy Blount

Global carrier billing to leverage smartphone take-off

Bango Inc. announced that it has further expanded its mobile payment platform by adding carrier billing in Canada. This brings the total number of subscribers it reaches through carrier billing in North America to over 200 million. Bango additionally provides mobile credit card and PayPal for payments that cannot be charged to the carrier bill. Read more »

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Spending gap between digital and offline content narrows further among US consumers

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Vanessa Daly

Music and eBooks top the list for mobile content spend, Bango reports

Bango Inc, the leading mobile analytics and payment company, published survey findings today showing that the spending gap between digital and offline content is narrowing among US consumers. In particular, amongst mobile aware Americans the amount spent on digital music and eBooks purchased from mobile phones is now close to the monthly spend on equivalent physical goods – CDs and paperbacks.

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Wi-Fi grows to over 50% of mobile web connections

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Vanessa Daly

Bango reports surge in Wi-Fi usage driven by smartphone sales and rich media consumption from mobile devices

Bango Inc, the leading mobile analytics and payment company, reports that at the start of 2011 Wi-Fi accounts for over 50% of mobile user connections to the internet. These latest Wi-Fi stats announced by Bango follows a report they published in February 2010, which highlighted that at the time 23% of mobile website visits connected through Wi-Fi.

The new Bango stats are derived from an analysis of connection methods it tracks through its payment and analytics platform. Bango believes that growing consumption of streamed media is driving users to look for fast network connectivity from Wi-Fi, allied to greater certainty over data costs. Read more »

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Bango and Psonar partner for pay-per-play mobile music service

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Vanessa Daly

Bango (LSE:BGO) today announced an agreement with mobile music service Psonar to power its innovative new pay-per-play digital music streaming service.

Psonar’s pay-per-play proposition is straightforward – listen to a track that you don’t own for 1 cent (or 1 eurocent) per play. Tracks can be listened to in full, uninterrupted and with no intrusive advertising or monthly subscriptions. This breakthrough pricing model will feed the rapidly growing appetite for streamed music, especially driven by increased consumption from mobile devices. Read more »

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IAB webinar – Mobile Campaign Measurement

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Vanessa Daly

January 12th 2011, 12pm EST / 5pm GMT

Register here

This webinar, organized by the IAB, will provide information on how to measure your mobile campaigns directly from the experts. Bango, mobile agency Somo, Yahoo!, and mobile advertising network Millennial Media will provide tips to understand the performance of your mobile campaigns. Read more »

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Less than 5% of mobile app revenues this year from in-app billing…

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Vanessa Daly

…but Bango forecasts in-app revenue growth of 600% in 2011

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In-app billing adoption has been slower than predicted but Bango forecasts this will change in 2011

Demand for mobile applications has soared during 2010. Today’s smartphones have access to thousands of third party apps, accelerating consumption and in turn driving more smartphone sales.

Boosted by the smartphone wars and tablet devices from RIM, Samsung, Dell, Acer, Sharp and others, the number of Read more »

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