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Breaking News Headline for AVVC: After earlier this week releasing news of its updated mobile site division focused on creating mobile web sites for business, Avatar Ventures issues news this morning it plans on focusing on Smartphones, Now Representing 50% of Mobile Market.

Avatar Ventures Corp. (OTCBB: AVVC), today just before the markets opened for trading, commented on a Nielsen research survey released earlier this week that shows more than half of all U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones as of March 2012, up from 47.8% in December. The smartphone is particularly attractive to adults age 25-34, with more than two out of three owning the mobile device, the survey noted.

Nielsen also indicated that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the top smartphone manufacturer, thanks to its popular iPhone, but Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android was the top smartphone operating system. The survey found 48.5% of smartphone owners had a device running on Android, followed by 32% running iOS. BlackBerry was a distant third, with 11.6%.

This news is relatively important after AVVC just announced earlier this week the release of its updated mobile site division and web site, Mobile Site Center, at www.mobilesitecenter.com, totally focused on creating mobile web sites for business. "We are introducing a simple and easy way for small businesses to take their companies mobile. Our new company and site allows our consultants to work with small businesses and help them efficiently design and build a professional mobile web site that will work on over 5,000 mobile devices," said Voltair Gomez, president of Avatar Ventures Corp.

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AVI Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVII), a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of therapeutic products based on antisense and cancer immunotherapy technology. AVII recently announced that treatment with eteplirsen met the primary efficacy endpoint in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase IIb study in boys with DMD.

Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced this week that it has introduced a new feature to Gmail. The company has added its Translate service to Gmail. Through this addition, now Gmail users will be able to translate e-mails in foreign languages into their own.

Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) news out this morning that over one hundred emloyees of Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd. are producing the new generation iPhone sample in Shenzhen, a person with news says, but he is not sure when the product will be put into mass production.

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