Proximity is only part of the mobile search picture. Both the breadth of categories searched and the demographics of smartphone use are broadening. Read the whole story
Revising its previous forecasts considerably, eMarketer says U.S. mobile ad spend spiked 180% this year. Facebook, Twitter and Google all exceeded earlier expectations for … Read the whole story
A survey of Total Beauty Media's users suggests that men rely heavily on devices to shortcut the torture of holiday shopping. For this dad, … Read the whole story
Spending on mobile search ads in the U.S. will jump 55% to $3.6 billion next year, of which Google will take 92.4% share, according … Read the whole story
Every month, it seems a new report is released announcing that more people are buying and using their smartphones to browse websites, send email, … Read the whole story
Nielsen and Twitter are creating a social media TV rating service -- all to capture TV-related content activity to trend rapidly growing second-screen activity. … Read the whole story
A new study to be released today by GfK, the giant research company, suggests that while mushrooming use of smartphones and apps continues to … Read the whole story
Further cultivating small business support, Facebook has updated the "Nearby" tab in its iOS and Android apps to enable users to find local spots … Read the whole story
Breakfast may always be ready, but is the bed & breakfast industry ready to leapfrog into the Technology Age with a high-tech, social media-driven … Read the whole story
A large majority of newspaper and magazine publishers have introduced iPad apps for their publications, with 87% offering content to Apple's popular tablet computer … Read the whole story
"It's a validation of a lot of other trends we're seeing," Taimour Azizuddin, global insights analyst at InMobi, tells "Marketing Daily." "When we look … Read the whole story
It looks like Lancome is counting on last-minute mobile shopping this year. With little more than a week before Christmas, the cosmetics giant on … Read the whole story
An app featuring Nickelodeon's SpongeBob character unlawfully collects personal data from children, the privacy group Center for Digital Democracy alleges in a complaint filed … Read the whole story