The European Union Commission is calling on mobile application developers to provide "very concrete answers" to concerns raised by EU citizens and national consumer … Read the whole story

The #1 desktop search advertiser online is also the top advertiser in mobile search -- Amazon. But after that the disparity between mobile and … Read the whole story

Despite all the buzz, investment and start-up activity around mobile payments, a key ingredient for success is still missing: consumers. Only 16% of mobile … Read the whole story

Mobile shopping behavior is evolving. As I wrote about yesterday (Why People Don't Use Smartphones to Shop), the top reasons people don't use their … Read the whole story

Hispanic consumers are outpacing non-Hispanics in their adoption of mobile, social and online sources for local shopping, according to a recent study. Nearly a … Read the whole story

Despite finally finding a mainstream audience, Twitter's growing problems are not going away. Next year, the company's domestic growth will fall from nearly 20% … Read the whole story

Maybe it's just me -- or maybe it's just my inbox -- but I was struck by sequential news announcements over the past 24 … Read the whole story

Rarely a day goes by without some researcher or commentator suggesting that social media is highly addictive, or at least critical to consumers' lives. … Read the whole story

Adaptive Media, a supply-side platform (SSP), on Thursday announced the appointment of Bryan Nguyen as chief technology officer. He joins the company from MyBuys.com, … Read the whole story