Bango Newsroom on the mobile web

Vodafone UK moves to the top spot in off-portal sales
Looking back over 2007, Bango reports strong commercial gains for UK operators that moved to open up the mobile web, with Vodafone UK rising to first place in the value of off-portal content sales. Measured across its total base of content providers, Bango saw traffic grow [...]

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Phone users and content providers benefit from Payforit launch
Bango today reports positive key performance indicators, based on an analysis of the first million transactions the company has processed since the launch of Payforit in the UK mobile market earlier this year. 92% of transactions were completed successfully with an error rate of less than 1%. [...]

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Bango, a global leader in the development of the mobile web, today announced that Econtent magazine has named Bango to the Econtent 100, an annual list which recognizes the “best and the brightest digital content companies” across the globe. The list is compiled by a panel Econtent judges who follow different aspects of the digital [...]

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Use mobile to share photos, music and images with friends
Bango today launched the “Get On My Mobile” Bango Button so that anyone using a social website, media sharing site, forum or blog can make their content available to mobile phone users world-wide at the push of a button.
The Bango Button bridges the gap between the [...]

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Encourages everyone to learn about – and love – the mobile web
To highlight the value and enjoyment of easy access to the internet from a mobile phone, Bango today launched the “ilovemobileweb” campaign to increase awareness of the mobile web with consumers around the world. The campaign is additionally a “call to action” for those [...]

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Site building tools such as mobiSiteGalore now embed Bango monetization functionality
To help the mass market take full advantage of a low cost, mobile web presence, Bango today introduced the Bango Boosted API so mobile site building tools can automatically provide the ability to charge for content.

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Winning team help 70 clubs in the football league go mobile
AnimationFC is set to become the UK’s number one football mobile content provider with the help of Bango. By the end of the year, 70 football clubs in the league will have a presence on the mobile web including Tottenham Hotspur FC, Newcastle United FC, [...]

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Mobile web billing specialist wins second award in two years
 Bango received the award for Best Billing Provider at the Mobile Entertainment Awards 2007, its second prize in as many years following the “Outstanding contribution to mobile entertainment” award picked up by Bango’s CEO Ray Anderson last year.
Organized and hosted by Mobile Entertainment magazine, the ME [...]

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Bango community of content providers see 30% of their sales from overseas
 Bango has reported a huge shift in mobile content sales with 30% of purchases from its growing community of content providers crossing country borders, compared to just 5% a year ago. The mobile web is helping businesses to reach overseas markets and with more [...]

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Bango offers mobile content providers free Payforit audits
With the new UK Payforit mobile content payment standard now in play – starting with O2 on 1st September 2007 – Bango is offering content providers a free mobile website audit. These audits will be conducted by Bango experts, who will review a content provider’s mobile site against [...]

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