Not long after Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley told me the service has signed up 300,000 businesses (and 10 million users), business development lead Eric Friedman blogged today that it has reached 500,000. To be clear, Foursquare is not yet monetizing…
Lately I've been exploring our video archives to pull out hidden gems and relive some of the important takeaways from our past conferences. Appropos to our Deals 3D show coming up in just over two weeks, I spent some time…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts we've written over the past week from the wide world of mobile. -- XAD Ramps Up Direct Sales, Leadership -- Happy Birthday, iPhone -- Yelp Joins…
Mobile Local Ad network xAD has been on a roll. About two months ago, it announced reaching 2 billion ads, just four months after hitting the first million (a feat that originally took 18 months). Now the company has announced…
The Jesus Phone turns 4. What better way to celebrate than an infographic (via Mashable). You're all grown-up now.
As we keep saying, mobile will represent "Act II" of the exploding deal space. We even have an entire segment of our Deals 3D conference next month devoted to it. It kicks off with a session of heavy hitters including…
I'm a day late to this news but better late than never. Mobile local ad network Verve Wireless has released its "Local Mobile Index." This is fresh off the MMA show where I ran into Verve CMO Greg Halinan, who's…
From the Friday Futurist Department, TechCrunch has an in-depth look at Oblong's Mezzanine, a revolutionary new graphical user interface. When futuristic technologies are referenced, the movie "Minority Report" is often invoked. Though it usually refers to personalized ads (the scene…
Today we released our latest forecast that projects spending on U.S. mobile advertising. The highlight of this particular release is the subset of advertising that will be location targeted. We also break down formats (display, search, SMS), but here I'll…
The title of this post is meant to convey Loopt's longstanding presence in mobile local, as well as the "reverse" nature of the deals product it launched today with ChompOn. Known as U-Deals, it's a sort of reverse group buying…
Soon after launching v2.0 of its mobile app, Shopkick got a little more local today by extending its mobile in-store rewards program to 1,000 SMBs in 10 U.S. cities. Known mostly for working with big-box chains like Target, Best Buy…
Soon after announcing 10 million users, Foursquare is out with an app refresh that makes it easier to check in. This is simply a repositioning of the check-in button, and a further streamlining of the process. But with growing volumes…
Today at the MMA Forum in New York, a panel of local broadcasters broke down the opportunities at the crossroads of television and mobile. So far, the way this has played out is mostly through positioning mobile as an extension…
I'm at the MMA Forum in New York today, where a hoarse-voiced Tim Westergren keynoted after a "late night" (much props) in the immediate wake of Pandora's successful IPO (at the time of this post, the company's stock price is…
Product launches in mobile LBS are reaching ridiculous levels. Without exaggeration, there are many per day, prompting what I've started to call NAGS (Not Another GeoLocation Service). Many are good, but most are opportunistic bolt-ons to a hot segment with…
YPG Canada announced today that it will join Foursquare's venues project. This will provide Foursquare with the 1.5 million business listings in YPG's YellowAPI. Existing YellowAPI developers will conversely have one-stop access to Foursquare's API. The venues project is meant…
I was surprised this week when Google Offers didn't get more of a media blitz. It did get some coverage, and to be fair the news had leaked weeks ago so the thunder was effectively stolen. But what coverage there…
Today we held a webinar to preview our upcoming Deals 3D conference and to touch on the biggest issues facing the emerging sector. This drilled downs on a few areas where deals are taking form in different ways, such as…
A few weeks ago, Peter Krasilovsky and I were pre-briefed by Meporter, a mobile local UGC news app that just launched at TechCrunch Disrupt. Led by 7Mainstreet founders Andy and Ron Leff (father/son team), the app lets users read or…
As reported in the previous post (and everywhere else in the universe), Google just announced its mobile payment system, Google Wallet. The long expected product will bring together NFC and payment processing to let mobile users transact by swiping their…
