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Last time we talked about Poynt, they reached 1 billion interactions and 6.4 million unique users. Now they announced surpassing 9 million users across North America, Western Europe and Australia. Unsurprisingly Android device owners represent a majority of all new users — of the over 700,000 new users added in June 2011, 500,000+ were on…
DeNA launched its social gaming platform Mobage in China, along with the Chinese versions of two in-house Android social game apps for Mobage – Ninja Royale and Aqua Collection, which have been popular in Japan since releasing in May. As you may know from our previous writing on Mobage, it’s made to allow players to…
Verizon Wireless will integrate Serve, American Express’ next-generation digital payment and commerce platform, on its phones and tablets. Over the coming months, customers of the Big Red carrier will be able to establish Serve accounts and eventually make payments and redeem offers for goods and services directly from their mobile devices. The two companies will…
Vonage recently announced a new service, Extensions, allowing its customers to extend their Vonage home calling plans to any phone, including mobiles. Existing customers can add any U.S. phone number as an extension by logging into their online account at Vonage’s website. The extension phone number can be a mobile phone, a home phone or…
Sony Ericsson announced that Yoshihisa (Bob) Ishida will be joining the company as Deputy CEO and Executive Vice President with effect from 1 September. At the same time, Rikko Sakaguchi will be leaving Sony Ericsson to take up a position at Sony Corporation. Bob will be based at Sony Ericsson’s R&D facility in Lund, Sweden…
GetJar proudly announced that it has surpassed 2 billion downloads, adding it is more than any other cross-platform app store. The company said this is due its vast catalog that counts more than 150,000 applications for over 2,500 mobile devices, including major smartphone platforms like Android, Blackberry, Java, Symbian and Mobile Web (guess this means HTML5-based…
Sony Ericsson opened a Research and Development (R&D) operation center in Beijing, China. At the same time, the Swedish-Japanese handset maker has also extended its partnership with Suning, one of the leading retailers in China, to work together to drive further adoption of Sony Ericsson’s smartphones across the world’s most populous country. And that’s about…
We’ve already talked about GSMA’s plans to select a city to be the Mobile World Capital and host the Mobile World Congress. The finalist cities included Barcelona, Milan, Munich and Paris, with Barcelona taking the crown and the benefit to host the MWC for another 5 years. Next year will be the last one when…
CNN has been super active in the mobile space, offering its app for many major platforms, including iOS, Android and Symbian. What’s more, they have special applications for modern tablets, whether they run iOS (iPad) or Android Honeycomb. All said we were not surprised when they announced hitting 10 million downloads. Here are the words…
We’ve already talked about Placecast and their ShopAlerts service in the past. At that point their offering was targeted toward big companies and now they’re going to the small and medium sized businesses with a new product called ShopAlerts Self-Serve. As you can imagine that “Self-Serve” part means interested businesses will be creating their own…