| Five Mobile Advertising Trends for the Holiday Shopping Season Forbes Black Friday is like the “annual report” for mobile advertising – a yearly snapshot of how mobile ads are progressing and evolving. The big challenges are perennial – the gap between time spent on mobile and ad dollars allocated, consumer perception of ... See all stories on this topic » |  Forbes |
| Throttle Games links mobile to monitor San Francisco Chronicle Under Huang and co-founders Matt Crowley and Karl Townsend, Green Throttle has developed an Android-compatible controller that connects wirelessly via Bluetooth tomobile gadgets, which then link to high-definition televisions. Huang says he expects to ... See all stories on this topic » |  San Francisco Chronicle |
| Bihar Village Bans Women and Girls From Using Mobile Phones New York Times (blog) “With the use of mobile phones by the girls and women, incidents of love affairs, elopement and extramarital affairs have increased in our village,” Mohammed Manwar Alam, a panchayat member, said by telephone Tuesday. “It is intolerable and eroding the ... See all stories on this topic » |  New York Times (blog) |
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Poshmark, a mobile app for buying and selling fashion, has raised $12 million in Series B financing led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investors Mayfield Fund, Inventus Capital and SoftTech VC also participated. Since launching last year, the app has ...
See all stories on this topic »Facebook Expands Mobile Messaging App to Non-Members on Android
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“You can create a Messenger account with just your name and phone number, and start messaging your mobile contacts,” Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said in the statement. “We're doing this because we're serious about messaging and realize ...
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| Virgin Atlantic Pushing And Promoting Mobile Technology To Delight Customers Forbes Virgin Atlantic caught my eye once more with their announcement of Passbook support. When you check in online, you'll have the option to send your boarding card to Passbook on your iOS device. Apple's digital wallet is for more than credit cards, and... See all stories on this topic » |  Forbes |
| Ad Targeting Startup Adelphic Mobile Raises $10M Led By Google Ventures TechCrunch Adelphic Mobile, a mobile ad startup founded by executives from Quattro (which Apple acquired and turned into its iAd program), has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Google Ventures. The startup previously raised a $2 million seed round led ... See all stories on this topic » |  TechCrunch |
TechCrunch
Because they just might be using AliveCor. For those unfamiliar, the San Francisco-based company is the maker of a low-cost, clinical-grade mobile heart monitor (fondly known as an electrocardiogram, or ECG, monitor) that fits over the back of your iPhone.
See all stories on this topic »Phorce Smart Bag Charges Into the Mobile Marketplace
Wired
The recent economic downturn affected a lot of different industries, but in many other industries, grandiose economic factors weren't as heavy an influence on business. One of these industries that continues to thrive regardless of the current state of ...
See all stories on this topic »Mobile Internet traffic gaining fast on desktop Internet traffic
CNET
Monetization of the mobile sector is also growing rapidly, turning in a compounded annual growth rate of 129 percent in the past four years. Mobile apps will take home the lion's share of the $19 billion the sector is expected to generate this year, 67 ...
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