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MCN is Search for the mobile world

MCN (Mobile Content Networks) provides mobile search management and revenue solutions that connect mobile users directly to the content they seek while delivering profitable new revenue streams for operators and content providers.

MCN is led by an experienced, global management team and backed by some of the most successful venture capital firms in the U.S. and Japan. Before launching the company in 2004, MCN conducted a multi-year study of the unique characteristics of the mobile commerce ecosystem. Equipped with a thorough understanding of the industry’s unique needs, MCN pioneered real-time federated search management, as well as the mobile industry’s highest performing paid search program, allwords.

Today MCN reaches more than 200,000,000 mobile users worldwide in partnership with leading mobile network operators, portals, handset makers, and content providers.

MCN’s industry leading solutions include:

•    MobileSearch.net—an ASP-based white label solution that delivers relevant, actionable results across both WAP and SMS in high value “vertical” content categories. > Learn more

•    allwords(sm)—the pioneering mobile vertical paid search program that delivers the mobile industry’s highest performing PPC mobile content promotions  > Learn more

MCN provides real-time mobile search solutions to partners in the world’s most advanced wireless data markets and in emerging 3G markets. MCN launched MobileSearch.net services in Finland in 2005 and now powers more than 20 mobile operator and portal search applications worldwide, including services in Japan for Yahoo! Mobile Japan, and NTT DoCoMo (in partnership with D2Communications), all three operators in Thailand (AIS, DTAC, and True), Scandinavia’s Tele2, Elisa, and DNA, and other customers in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.  

MCN’s business operations are headquartered in Tokyo, with a research and product development center in Mountain View, California, and European operations headquartered in Espoo, Finland. MCN has sales offices in Finland, the U.K., the Netherlands, Thailand, and the U.S.