Local information and ratings site Yelp on Wednesday reported a 67% increase in net revenue in the second quarter after expanding into new markets overseas and on mobile devices. The company posted a net loss of $2 million, or 3 cents per share, in the quarter, compared with a loss of $1.2 million, or 8 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue increased to $32.7 million from $19.6 million a year ago. Analysts had forecast …

Can Mitt Romney's new iOS and Android app help him close the “smartphone gap”? The Romney campaign Tuesday unveiled the app that will let users know the instant Mitt announces his running mate. As Wired noted, the move appears to be 2012 update on the Obama campaign's choice to notify people of Joe Biden's selection as vice presidential selection in 2008. Perhaps Romney should go with text messaging, too. A recent study by mobile marketing firm Velti …

Android's leading share of the U.S. smartphone market remained virtually unchanged over the last three months, increasing just 0.6% to 51.6% as of June, according to the latest comScore data. The surging growth the Google platform saw in 2010 and 2011 has stalled out this year with Android reaching a majority of smartphones. Whether the strong sales of the recently released Samsung Galaxy S III will give Android renewed momentum won't be clear until third quarter quarter figures are released. Apple's iOS picked up 1.7 percentage points to increase to a 32.4% share, while RIM's …

Mobile loyalty service shopkick has hired Silicon Valley veteran Alexis Rask as head of brand partnerships for the company. As VP and general manager, brand partnerships, Rask will lead shopkick's relations with major brands in the CPG, consumer electronics, entertainment, and other industry verticals. Prior to joining the company, Rask was SVP, sales development at Federated Media. She was previously a founding member of LinkedIn's marketing solutions team and New York operations, and worked at Google on selling search marketing campaigns. Through its partner alliance program, shopkick already works on mobile marketing programs …

Mobile video service Vuclip is launching a new video ad format which promises to take the headache out of running a mobile campaign by optimizing ad creative across myriad devices and platforms. The rich media Click2Vid unit is designed to run on 5,500 devices including feature phones, smartphones and tablets without manual adjustments by brands or agencies. The new ad unit is also meant to play within the page a user is already on, rather than requiring a separate landing page. Previously, Vuclip says users would …