Reports have emerged from within Facebook that the company is poised to make its first move into the mobile advertising space, possibly by inserting its Sponsored Stories adverts – which highlight a user’s friends interaction with various brands – into a user’s mobile News Feed. The reports, which first saw the light of day in [...]
We highlighted in this blog last week about the announcement from Verizon and that it would block Google Wallet. Only a few days later there was a counter-announcement from Verizon that it wasn’t really blocking Google wallet, it was in discussion with Google about implementing a suitable “secure element” on the handset. OK – that’s [...]
So far this year Facebook has bought six companies ranging from the mobile app developer, Snaptu, to the mobile advertising firm, Rel8tion. One acquisition, Beluga, whose business centred on group messaging, was eventually integrated into the Facebook Messenger app. The most recent acquisition – announced this week – is the purchase of small geosocial networking [...]
As we approach 2012, mobile devices including smartphones and tablets are all set to become a part of this festive season. Millions of users are expected to do their Christmas shopping via smartphones and tablets – meaning an attractive season for scams, malware attacks and mobile fraud. Even though the number of users accessing online [...]
With the recent news that T-Mobile has withdrawn from the Dutch NFC Payments Consortium and that Verizon has blocked Google Wallet on the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, are we beginning to see the MNOs asserting themselves in the mobile commerce market? I have previously blogged on the mobile wallet wars and here we have [...]
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