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Google's Mobile Ad Requests Double in Just Two Months

Google's (GOOG) future ambition: to conquer the mobile ad world just like it has the World Wide Web world.

Although there is much convergence between the two, mobile devices are replacing PCs for much of the world's Internet activity (it's tiny now, but exploding more every year). To that end, Google's Android mobile operating system, which is now taking the world by storm, wants to be the clear leader in mobile Internet and application access.

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Apple Picks Up Quattro Wireless to Take a Shot at Google

It looks like the next fortune in tech will be mobile. And so far, it appears that Apple (AAPL) has the edge, with its extremely popular iPhone and app store, which has clocked more than three billion downloads worldwide. It was two billion just back in November.

But the competition is intensifying, especially from Google (GOOG). After all, the company is launching its own iPhone-type device (called the Google Nexus).

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Google gets mobile with a $750 million deal for AdMob

While attending the MBA program at the Wharton School, Omar Hamoui was trying to solve a big problem. Basically, he wanted to find a way to get advertising revenues from his mobile site. Then he realized that many other sites probably had the same problem. So why not start a company to solve the problem?

That what he did, creating AdMob (yes, he is still on leave from Wharton). And, it was a great move. Today, Google (GOOG) agreed to buy AdMob for a cool $750 million in stock.

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