
Italian Regulators Take Aim At “Freemium” Apps
Italian authorities have begun to investigate the companies and the issue. Previously, the EU argued that freemium apps are potentially...

Smartphone Share: Another Look At Devices Vs. Web Traffic
The headline of today’s Chitika North American smartphone usage report is that Windows Phone has finally and firmly established itself as...

Last-Mile Local Marketing With Mobile: An #LSA14 Retrospective
Mobile devices are our own personal Sherpas — or, as Woz said in his popular keynote, “your most trusted advisor in the world.” Marketers...

Three Well-Known Travel Apps Launch On Google Glass
If Google Glass is going to gain widespread consumer acceptance, it’s going to happen on the strength of the apps that are available for...

Google Glass Is Back On Sale To Anyone In The U.S.
If you live in the U.S. and want to buy Google Glass without needing a friend’s invite, you can. Google has opened up the Glass Explorer...

Google Glass’ First Public Retail Effort? A PGA Tournament Sales Booth
Attendees at this weekend’s PGA event in Florida, The Players Championship, had an opportunity to buy Google Glass — the first time...

Report: Mobile Video Ad Consumption Rises, Native Ads Yielding Higher Engagement Rates
report shows ad performance rates leveled off for the first time since Celtra began reporting on it in 2012. However, areas of growth...

What Can Keyword Planner Tell Us About Mobile Search Behavior?
If you were to ask the question posed by the title of this article a month ago, the answer would be: nothing. Unfortunately, when Google...

Chip Vendor Predicts $20 Smartphones This Year
AnandTech reports that at its recent “tech day” event, ARM predicted the appearance of a $20 smartphone later this year. To be clear (and...

Google Wallet Coming To Glass To Enable “Send Money” Via Voice Command
source who spoke with TechCrunch, Google Wallet is coming to Google Glass. The idea is to enable users to send money to friends, family...

Patent Verdict: Apple Wins The Round But Fails To Land A Blow Vs. Samsung
After a hard fought and widely publicized trial, Apple extracted a jury verdict of just $119 million against the Korean company. It’s a...

Google+ Breaks Into The Top 15 Mobile Apps — comScore
Yesterday afternoon comScore released its US smartphone and mobile app rankings for March. Interestingly the company appears to have...

Click-Through Rates On Mobile App Ads Reach New Heights, Lead To Record Downloads
In March, click-through rates on ads for mobile adds on iOS devices reached new heights, increasing fivefold from the previous year. CTRs...

How You Can Use Geo-Location To Turn Mobile Traffic Into Offline Gold
Mobile traffic is on a steep upward climb, with people now looking at their mobile devices an average of 150 times per day. Businesses...

Smartphones To Reach 90 Pct. In US, UK By 2016 — Forecast
asserts that the UK market will reach 90 percent smartphone penetration in 2016. The publication cites a separate analysis by Horace...

Frictionless Mobile Commerce: 5 Examples Of Companies That Are Leading
In 2000, MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael D. Smith published a paper titled, Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet...

Facebook: App Links Allow Deep Links Between Mobile Apps
Today at F8, Facebook’s developer event, the company announced an initiative called App Links. It’s a free and open-source solution for...

Live Blog: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote At The Facebook F8 Conference
Hello from San Francisco. After a three-year hiatus, Facebook is once again holding its F8 Developers Conference. Kicking things off is...

Report: 70 Percent Of Mobile Ad Revenue Coming From “Interstitials”
China-based mobile ad network appflood.com has released its first report on the state of global mobile advertising (for Android apps)....
























