
Morgan Stanley: No, Apps Aren’t Winning. The Mobile Browser Is.
Last week, comScore released its Mobile App Report, which we covered. The report contained many interesting findings, but its big...

Google’s Android Rules Found To Violate Russian Competition Law
Prompted by a complaint from Russian search engine Yandex, in February, Russia’s competition regulator opened an antitrust investigation...

Report: Google & Twitter Are Working On Accelerated Mobile Pages For Publishers
Looks like Facebook’s “Instant Articles” and Apple’s News app will have some company. According to Recode, Google and Twitter are working...

Standing On Shoulders Of Apple Pay, Google’s Android Pay Officially Launches
Google was first with Wallet. But it was blocked by frightened mobile carriers, and beyond that, it failed to capture the imagination of...

Comscore: Smartphone Penetration Above 77 Percent In US
The July smartphone numbers are out this afternoon from comScore. According to the measurement firm, smartphone penetration has reached...

Google Launches Stand-Alone Street View App For iOS And Android
Google’s Street View has been somewhat challenged in the transition to a mobile-centric world. It’s available through the Google Maps and...

Wearables Game Changer: Android Wear Now Compatible With iPhone
Google just changed the rules for wearables. It has introduced Android Wear for iOS. The caveat is that right now it’s only available for...

Google Debuts New In-App Interstitial Designs For App Install And Text Ads
Google’s previous format for app install interstitials, on the left, is being replaced by the new style on the right. Google has rolled...

IDC: Smartphone Growth Slows, Apple Watch Now #2 Wearable After Fitbit
Lukas Gojda / Shutterstock.com China’s stock market crash has inserted fear and doubt into the global economy over the past week. A...

Eddystone Beacon Explainer: An Interview With Google’s Chandu Thota
On July 14, Google announced a new developer initiative called Eddystone. It’s a new open format for Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons....

New Android Phones: Less Google-App “Bloatware” Equals Less EU Scrutiny
Android Central is celebrating an apparent decision by Google to require fewer pre-loaded apps on forthcoming Android handsets. The site...

Bing Lures App Developers With New Knowledge Graph API
Bing has announced a new Knowledge and Actions Graph API for Android developers. The objective is to get Android developers to deeply...

In Google’s Android-Candy Universe, “M” Is For Marshmallow
Someday, in a museum, there will be an exhibit of all the statues representing all the different versions and flavors of Android. The...

Microsoft Mobile Share Reaches Lowest Level Since comScore Tracking Began
While Android continues its march as the dominant global operating system, its market share in the US is essentially flat and roughly at...

Report: iPhone Drives Less Than A Third Of Android Traffic, Nearly 75 Percent Of Revenue
Last week Opera released its State of Mobile Advertising report for Q2. Headlines on coverage tended to focus on the finding that “the...

Report Pegs Click-To-Call Commerce At More Than $1 Trillion Annually
A new report from Marchex, based on an analysis of millions of calls and using ad-spending data from Google and call growth projections...

Search Ads In Google Play Store Go Live Globally
In February, Google began testing ads from app developers in the Google Play store search results. Wednesday, the company announced...

Google: Data Show Users Hate App-Promotion Interstitials
Very often smartphone users click a link to a mobile Web page and are confronted by a interstitial promotion asking them to download the...

Google Beats Expectations With $17.7 Billion, Mobile And YouTube Revs Grow
After search marketing reports showed slowing growth for Google, the market was anticipating a miss or very modest growth. However,...
























