The GSMA announced this week that the city that hosts its annual conference from 2013 to 2017 will also be crowned Mobile World Capital . The shortlist includes six European cities that would make great places for a big conference, but aren’t necessarily the first places that mobiThinking would have expected to be Mobile World Capital: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Cologne, Milan, Munich and Paris. read more

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Mobile world capital: so what is the DNA of a truly mobile city and which cities really vie for the title?

Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists (COM), your round up of the best mobile and wireless blogs and one completely average one. Last week the itinerant COM was hosted by Antoine RJ Wright , next week COM drops in at MJelly . If you want your blog to be considered, submit it to mobilists@gmail.com . read more

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Carnival of the Mobilists (No 243): music, psychology, consumer behavior, apps, ads, movies, handset share and more

The MobileSQUARED team has given mobiThinking five free tickets for the New York Roadshow next week to anyone who can answer these questions. All the answers can be found in articles in the MobileSQUARED newsletter . 6.9 percent of US consumers that view a mobile ad go on to purchase the item, but what ethnic group is most likely to make a purchase after viewing an ad: a) African American; b) White; or c) Hispanic? read more

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As the World Cup host nation kicks off the first match of the tournament today (Friday morning in America, Friday afternoon in Europe/Africa, Friday night in Asia/Pacific) versus Mexico, so commences a fascinating case study in mobile Web. read more

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Meet the biggest South African mobile sites – top 10 shows that on mobile the World Cup host nation is football (soccer) crazy

With so much media attention on the Google/AdMob investigation, you might expect the FTC to go to some lengths to justify its conclusion that Google’s US$750 million purchase of AdMob should go ahead. After all, it believes these networks to be number one and two (that’s news, by the way). The hope was that in explaining itself, the FTC statement might help to shed some light on the emerging market of mobile ad networks. read more

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FTC allows Google to purchase AdMob, but the investigation contributes precious little to collective understanding of the mobile