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Futurism: Cell Providers Are Apparently Gonna Put Ads on Your Phone’s Lock Screen Cell Providers Are Apparently Gonna Put Ads on Your Phone’s Lock Screen NEW YORK — Your cell phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like. Considering the phone is usually no more than a few feet ... Startups Mobile Posse and Acuity Mobile are pushing technology that can deliver pop-up ads to a mobile phone's idle screen any time Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and other online giants have all said ...

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Google’s Android smartphone platform could soon be getting flooded with ads — right on the lock screen. According to TechCrunch, a Google-backed subsidiary of Indian advertising company inMobi Group ... Yahoo on Wednesday launched a beta version of sponsored search results on mobile phones in the United States and United Kingdom. Like Yahoo's sponsored search results on the Web, advertisers will bid ...