TexoMobile gives a presentation at pavilion France at the Mobile World Congress. In this presentation TexoMobile lays out their off deck B2C and B2B strategy.

iGloo numbers are laid out in terms of visitors and key figures :

15 000 000 page views per month

11 000 blogs

10 000 My iGloo mash up pages configured

2 600 mobile sites link to iGloo directory

MobPartner the B2B side of TexoMobile, key numbers :

15 000 WapMasters

15 000 000 page views per month

1 000 white label sites for a partner in a month

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Reuters has chosen Nokia Ad Business to sell their mobile inventory. Nokia’s media sales team will sell advertising space on Reuters’ UK mobile site as well as offering additional solutions such as branded mobile websites for Reuters’ advertisers.

“We are delighted to announce this new partnership with Nokia and believe it will greatly extend the breadth of our advertising reach within the mobile arena,” said Tim Faircliff, General Manager for Consumer Media, UK & EMEA at Reuters.

“Working with Nokia offers us access to premium global audiences through its advertising network and will offer broader opportunities to our existing media sales team.”

“We are pleased to work with blue chip publishers, like Reuters” said Mike Baker, VP and Head of Nokia Ad Business Unit.

“Our advertising clients trust their mobile advertising to Nokia because they are looking for brand-safe opportunities to reach consumers on quality mobile properties, such as Reuters.”

Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares.

The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo’s board, is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday.

Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying to revive the company. It has been struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also been a competitor to Microsoft. In a conference call, Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson said that the combination of the two companies would create an entity that could better compete with Google.

“Today the market [for online search and advertising] is increasingly dominated by one player,” he said.

Yahoo confirmed that it has received an unsolicited offer and said that its board would evaluate the proposal, “carefully and promptly in the context of Yahoo’s strategic plans and pursue the best course of action to maximize long-term value for shareholders.” If Yahoo accepted the offer, competition authorities both in the US and the European Union would be likely to investigate the tie-up. Yahoo chief executive, Jerry Yang, announced on Tuesday that he intended to lay off 1,000 staff as part of a restructuring plan.

Microsoft said that Yahoo shareholders could choose to receive either cash or shares.

According to its letter to Yahoo, Microsoft attempted to enter talks about a deal a year ago, but was rebuffed because Yahoo was confident about the “potential upside” presented by the reorganization and operational activities that were being put in place at the time. “A year has gone by, and the competitive situation has not improved,” Microsoft’s letter said.

This is of imminent interest to us Mobile web people because both Yahoo and Microsoft are pushing to become major players in the mobile space. It is going to be interesting to see what will happen. Also Google which is make moves into the mobile space can be invigorated by all of this or to the contrary sidetracked from the mobile business.