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Apple has hired Adobe executive Todd Teresi to run its iAd ad program, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/Ccb4k).

The article says Teresi, who was vice president of Adobe’s media solutions group, has already started at Apple as vice president of iAd. The job would have Teresi reporting to Eddy Cue, a senior vice president who also oversees Apple’s iTunes and the App Store, says “Bloomberg,” quoting two unnamed people “who declined to be identified because the move hasn’t been announced.”

The iPhone had 11.2% of mobile subscribers for the three-month period ending in November, according to new data from comScore (http://www.comscore.com), a site that “measures the digital world.” That percentage compares to 9.8% for the three-month period ending in August.

For the latest quarter Samsung had the most mobile subscribers with 25% of the market, followed by LG with 21% and Motorola with 14%. That compares with previous quarter percentages of 25.5%, 25.6% and 20.5%, respectively. RIM’s share dropped from 7.1% to 6.5% over the same period.

Historically, more iOS and Android apps are downloaded on Christmas than on any other day of the year.  This is due to a massive influx of smartphones and tablets given as gifts. 

With record-breaking mobile growth for both Apple and Google this year, Flurry Analytics (http://www.flurry.com/) — a cross-platform mobile application analytics provider — has been anticipating an equally record-breaking Christmas.  In 2011, Apple’s App Store is on pace to exceed 10 billion downloads, which will double the cumulative number of downloads earned across 2008, 2009 and 2010.