Why the beacon revolution has been postponed
Tim Dunn is the director of mobile and strategy at Isobar US This was supposed to have been the year when the beacon invaded Main St.,...
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SecQ.me founder James Khoo quits the startup life
James Khoo of personal safety app startup SecQ.me, who is leaving the company he founded more than three years ago and will be looking for...
Facebook Cuts Brands’ Reach Once Again
Facebook is becoming even more pay-to-play for brands. Facebook announced Friday afternoon that it would begin curtailing the reach of brands’ unpaid, or organic, posts...
How ABC News Drove Mobile Video Engagement On Election Night
On election night, ABC News wanted to engage users with breaking news via its app, but it didn’t want to overwhelm them. Among its updates,...
Verizon, Sprint And T-Mobile Muse On Monetization
The mobile value proposition of a company like Facebook or Google is fairly straightforward: Download the free app and it’ll let you converse with your...
Digesting news, the new Yahoo! way
A recently-launched news aggregation app called Yahoo! News Digest aims to give readers a snapshot of what’s happening in the world in a fun and...
Mobile Is Great, but Paper and People Can Still Carry Election Day
Sometimes get-out-the-vote efforts on election day come in virtual form: encouragement from a Facebook friend to vote, or a campaign volunteer using a mobile app...
Zoinks! WWE Studios Wrestles With Mobile, Comes Out On Top
Sometimes, a standalone app might be more trouble than it’s worth – especially if we’re talking about a branded game as part of a single...
Taxi-booking startups, say ‘Hailo’ to more competition
Consumers in Singapore now have another taxi-booking app vying for their attention with the official debut of Hailo on Oct 29. Via DNA
It’s Official: Snapchat Says That Ads Are Coming
Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging app, is officially taking the advertising plunge. In a blog post on Friday, the Los Angeles-based company said it was introducing...
Kardashian Game Drops in Download Rankings, Spooking Investors in Publisher
Shares in Glu Mobile, the video-game publisher that surged after its “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood” became a hit, fell on concern that the title may be...
Winner of Cannes Mobile LionsComedy Theater Saved By “Pay-Per-Laugh” Mobile App
Every once in awhile we see a mobile-based application that is just so innovative we have to write about it. And the “Pay-per-Laugh” application from...
SMS Brand Engagement Popular with Consumers, Survey Says
According to the findings of a new global SAP study, consumers in twelve nations have one thing in common — a strong penchant for communicating...
90 Percent of Top Internet Retailers Now Use This Mobile Marketing Tactic
Push does come to shove — and improves sales — if internet retailers are right. Nine out of the 10 top e-retailers in the 2015...
FTC Snags Google in $19 Million Mobile-App Settlement
Another tech giant — this time it’s Google — is caught up in a prolonged Federal Trade Commission crackdown. Google settled with the FTC for...
10 agency tours on Hyperlapse
Yesterday, Instagram launched “Hyperlapse,” a new iOS app that lets you make high-quality time lapse videos in just a few minutes, using your phone’s camera....
