Google, Facebook and Amazon--- and to a lesser extent other Fortune 500 brands -- helped drive an estimated $1.34 billion to sites and apps distributing pirated movies and TV shows, and ads on apps are growing fastest, says a new report.

I know this will sound like heresy to readers of "Mobile Insider," but I don't believe mobile is a medium, per se. Rather, it's an enabling technology.

At the start of the pandemic, a survey of 5,002 people showed 30% could be found watching a TV show on their mobile devices weekly.

A quarter century after they were first introduced, mobile device QR codes are finally achieving mass adoption.