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According to recent stats from comScore, two-thirds of all smartphone owners performed shopping activities on their phones in September. Digital purchases, clothing or accessories, and tickets were among the most popular types of products purchased by smartphone buyers during the month.

The top 10 websites are capturing more and more of a user’s time spent online, according to Compete. Facebook is leading the way by a rather large margin.

Smaato recently released its “Q3 2011 Mobile Metrics Report,” which share data on mobile advertising adoption, fill rates and overall effect on mobile ad network performance, and considerations for mobile developers and advertisers. Among the findings was a stabilization of fill rates in the…

Knotice’s “Mobile Email Opens Report: First Half 2011” highlights a handful of interesting findings, including a surge in mobile email opens in that time period. However, mobile email click-through activity is lagging.

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In discussing the value, or often lack thereof, with lead generation businesses, it’s hard for us not to think about the biggest lead gen business of all, Groupon. Not that they would use that term, but there is a reason that most of the fast followers and better self-funded iterations came from the lead generation…

Talking to a company the other day, something interesting was said. They said, we have given up the word lead generation. “We don’t use it internally and we don’t use it when talking to clients.” When asked how they make their money, they said to us, “lead generation.” Let’s repeat that. You aren’t a lead…

In a recent conversation with an investor in the EDU industry, I asked him what do you think of Career Education Corp’s stock price taking a 40% nosedive?

His response was standard – something had to change and the industry is still…