
Global Smartphone Shipments Pass 300 Million In Q2; Android Extends Lead In Market Share
Fueled by surging growth by Android in emerging markets, smartphone companies shipped a record 301.3 million devices during the second...

Global Mobile Ad Revenue Hit 19.3B In 2013, Nearly Double Previous Year
Global mobile advertising revenue continued to grow rapidly in 2013, nearly doubling its total to 19.3 billion, according to figures...

Apple’s iOS Maintains Large Enterprise Lead Over Android
Apple’s iOS and Android appear to be locked in a zero-sum battle in the enterprise market, with iOS maintaining a healthy lead as Android...

Report: Google Readies Test To Target Users With Ads Across The Mobile Web And Apps
With the like of Facebook and Twitter encroaching into Google’s mobile ad network territory, the company is reportedly testing a way to...

Yelp Adds Bing Translation For Reviews In Mobile Apps
Local knowledge is usually the most, er, knowledgeable. So if you are looking for the best place for tapas in Barcelona, Spain, or the...

Smartphone Penetration Likely To Be 75 Percent By Year End
The latest comScore smartphone subscriber figures are out. They reflect nearly 72 percent smartphone penetration in the US. As recently...

Apple, Samsung End Bitter Patent Litigation Outside US
Apple and Samsung agreed yesterday to mutually dismiss all their patent lawsuits outside the US. This impacts pending litigation and...

Smart User Learning & Accurate Recommendations Highlight The Newly Launched Foursquare App
Today, Foursquare users can upgrade to the highly anticipated new Foursquare App. As shown in the previous sneak previews, the new app...

The Persistent Gap Between Mobile Devices And Web Traffic
A new report on Q2 201 4 smartphone traffic in North America from ad-network Chitika prompts us to take another look at the curious gap...

EU Readying New Android Antitrust Complaint Against Google
According to a Reuters article, which is consistent with earlier news reports, European competition authorities are laying the foundation...

3 Mobile Search Warnings Google Still Needs To Add
No one applauded louder than I did when Google introduced their warning in search results for faulty redirects in June of this year, and...

Offers, Local Relevance Biggest Drivers Of Mobile Ad Clicks — Study
A new study from Nielsen, xAd and Telmetrics, argues that smartphone and tablet users are becoming increasingly receptive to and engaged...

Chinese Android OEMs Gaining, Samsung Lead May Be Waning
The latest smartphone shipments (not sales) figures from IDC shows Chinese hardware OEMs making gains against market leader Samsung and...

Google Glass App Landscape (Finally) Showing Signs Of Growth
It has a long, long way to go to rival app stores like those for Android and iOS (and I doubt it’ll ever rival their size, actually), but...

Roost Enables Web Push Notifications, Coming Soon To Mobile Browsers
A company called Roost has developed publisher push notifications for PC web browsers. This offers a potential new channel to deliver...

Report: Progressive Insurance Top Mobile Advertiser Of Q2
Mobile analytics provider Adomic released a Q2 mobile advertising report. It covers a range of metrics and issues; among them, top mobile...

Does Mobile Advertising Work?
We’ve all heard for several years that the effectiveness of advertising — print, television, radio and even digital — is suffering from...

The Shelf Life Of A Mobile Ad: Shorter Than You May Think
When a user loads a webpage, they aren’t doing so with the intent of clicking on an ad. Yet, millions and millions of users do just that...

Opening Mobile Wallet Opportunities For Marketers
There is a lot of buzz about mobile wallets — mostly, the challenges facing mass adoption of mobile payments. This has left many...