| Facebook wants to turn the Open Graph into a mobile app store Digitaltrends.com You might not think Facebook would be making waves at Mobile World Congress, but you'd be wrong. Today the social network announced its new mobile billing service – signaling it very much intends to compete with mobile app stores, namely iOS and... See all stories on this topic » |  Digitaltrends.com |
| Facebook's New Initiative Promises To Make Cross-Platform Mobile Payments Real Wired News The vision, though, is spelled out in a blog post by Facebook Director of Developer Relations Doug Purdy: to “minimize the number of steps needed to complete a transaction in mobile web apps, which will make it easier for hundreds of millions of people ... See all stories on this topic » |  Wired News |
| MWC: Facebook to Create Own App Store, Pushes Mobile Standards Mobiledia By Janet Maragioglio | Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:39 pm Facebook is pushing to create mobile browsing and Web-based mobile payments standards, hinting at plans to compete with Apple and Android's native app stores. At the Barcelona Mobile World Congress today, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Mobiledia |
PR Web (press release)
The partnering of Exadel and WAC continues productivity enhancements to the Tiggzi development ecosystem, which are designed to help developers create finished fully-functional mobile applications that can be deployed on any handheld device.
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IntoMobile
The social networking giant reached out to developers recently inquiring what it can do to help themobile web thrive in ways that it has not been able to yet. Facebook found that the three biggest challenges developers face when creating web apps are ...
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New York Times (blog)
Although developers can use HTML5 to build applications that will work on Facebook's mobile site, more than 2500 different types of mobile devices access Facebook on a regular basis around the world. Developing standards would help create a similar ...
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| Facebook to help build mobile web .net magazine By Tanya Combrinck on February 28, 2012 Facebook has announced plans to support the evolution of the mobile web by addressing three key factors that discourage developers from building mobile apps. The first of these is the issue of appdiscovery, ... See all stories on this topic » |  .net magazine |
InformationWeek
And in many agencies, application strategies are still in their infancy. Until recently, the approach in the halls of Washington was to issue RIM BlackBerrys to managers who need them, while making a few mobile apps available to the public, ...
See all stories on this topic »AT&T making plans to let mobile app developers pay users' data fees
The Verge
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, AT&T network and technology head John Donovan said that the company is looking to create a form of "toll-free calling" for mobile apps in which companies would pay for users' data charges on a specific ...
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MarketWatch (press release)
SAN DIEGO, Feb 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- MeLLmo Inc., the creators of Roambi, today announced at Mobile World Congress that they are making their award-winning, mobile businessapps available to marketing executives. With an emphasis on stunning data ...
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