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Biography for Jason Ankeny

Jason Ankeny is the executive editor of FierceMobileContent and FierceDeveloper as well as a regular contributor to Entrepreneur magazine and the website All Music Guide. He previously served as senior editor of Telephony and its sister publication Wireless Review--additional credits include efforts for publications including Rolling Stone, Wax Poetics and No Depression along with liner notes for a number of album releases. He lives in Chicago and may be reached via email at jankeny@fiercemarkets.com.

Articles by Jason Ankeny

Hurray makes strategic investment in Seed Music

Chinese wireless value-added services provider Hurray announced it will make a strategic investment in Taiwan-based music production company Seed Music Group Limited. Per terms of the agreement,

T-Mobile USA jettisons 3G data usage cap

Following outcry over its decision to cap data usage on its 3G UMTS network at 1GB, T-Mobile USA

Battle of the brands

MySpace squares off against iTunes. Article

Visa expands m-payment services via Android, Nokia

Electronic payment services giant Visa said it plans to make mobile payment services broadly available to U.S. consumers by year's end, announcing a series of new initiatives including efforts to

Vindigo shuts down

Mobile applications and mobile advertising solutions company Vindigo will close its doors, with Japanese parent firm For-Side laying off more than 30 employees. Founded in 1999, Vindigo was one of

Alltel intros mobile access to iTunes playlists

Alltel Wireless announced the launch of nuTsie, a mobile music application enabling subscribers to listen to playlists from iTunes libraries stored on their PCs. Developed by mobile and online media

JuiceCaster, Photobucket partner on user-generated content

Mobile social networking service JuiceCaster announced an agreement with online digital media aggregator Photobucket to enable users to instantly post mobile videos and photos from their handsets to

Millennial teams with Paramount for 'Eagle Eye' campaign

Paramount Pictures announced an agreement with mobile advertising firm Millennial Media to design and launch a mobile campaign touting the upcoming theatrical release of the DreamWorks Pictures

Android at last

Complete coverage of Google and T-Mobile USA's G1 launch. FierceWireless

Opera: Long-tail sites driving mobile web traffic

While popular sites like Google and Facebook generate significant mobile web traffic, it's smaller, more niche-oriented destinations that drive the majority of visitors, according to browser