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Updated: Social networking going mobile: In-Stat


SCOTTSDALE, AZ – About 30 million mobile subscribers around the world could be using mobile social networking services by 2012, according to a report, entitled Mobile Social Networking: Marketing to Millenials by market research firm In-Stat. Blogging, photo and video sharing, location-based socialization services, games, SMS, and IM will eventually be combined to give mobile users the entire social networking experience from a handset application, predicts In-Stat. It sees the mobile handset becoming an extension of the user in most aspects of life. “The critical issue most mobile social networking site and application developers struggle with is how to make...