Tis the season for top 10 lists. I guess I’m playing right into the cliche. However instead of looking back at “best of” fodder, I recently decided to partake in some forward looking speculation – what us analysts do best (or worst).
What can we expect in mobile and local in 2012? more…
Google has launched a series of new rich media ad formats, designed to engage tablet and mobile users. Consumers “have higher expectations of ads on tablets, believing they should be more interactive and touch screen friendly,” they said in a Google Mobile Ads blog post announcing the new ads. more…
Google’s Android Market has delivered its 10 billionth application download, and is in the midst of celebrating with 10 days of special promotions during which selected apps will be offered for 10 cents.
The milestone comes just five months after the 6 billionth download, and Google estimates that current Android Market transactions total over 1 billion a month. more…
SAN DIEGO - Antengo, a mobile marketplace for posting and discovering real-time local classified listings, is now available as an app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. Antengo is quickly gaining momentum as a reinvention of classified listings for mobile, making it easy for local communities and its members to post, more…
Google has decided to combine its payment-oriented services. Google Checkout users will be prompted to migrate to Google Wallet on their next login, while webmasters will be guided through a transition early next year. more…
Social payments are taking a giant leap forward. PayPal has unveiled a Facebook app that lets you send money to friends.
The app, simply titled Send Money, is just as straightforward as its name. You have the choice to send either an ecard with money or just money with no card. You select a card, choose a friend to send it to and then select how much money to send. more…
A couple years ago, we heard a rumor that Microsoft viewed Google Apps as the number-one threat to its enterprise business. Apparently, whenever a big Microsoft customer announced a plan to use Gmail or Google Apps, Microsoft would sic a special team on them to try and change their mind. more…
AdPerfect, a classified advertising solution provider to media publishers, today announced it’s partnership with Spreed Inc., a mobile publishing platform for content providers. The partnership will offer the companies’ media publisher clients a mobile solution that includes classified data and news data in one application, rather than serval different ones. more…
Google announced new mobile ad opportunities, including mobile-friendly ad “circulars” and the option for advertisers to send users to deep links inside an installed app. Additionally, physical proximity to the searcher is now an ad ranking factor. more…
Finding “Angry Birds” or other smart phone games and apps in Russian has just gotten easier. Russian search giant Yandex launched a new search engine for mobile apps yesterday at apps.yandex.ru.
“Yandex search for mobile applications is the first more…
The social media giant is expected to present something really, really big this week… but what?
Since Google+ launched over the summer, Facebook has been adding oodles of new features and tweaks. (Have you looked at your newsfeed today?) But it’s widely expected that Facebook will make a “massive,” game-changing announcement on more…
(Reuters) – More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times’ Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple’s App Store.
The business newspaper, which is part of British more…