2010 was quite a year for Foursquare. It grew users 3,400 percent and now has about 6 million total. 2010 check-ins also totaled 381 million. Today the company is out with a new infographic that plots out some of this…
The first commercial is now out for the long anticipated Verizon iPhone. See our coverage of the launch here and the commercial below. "It begins."
We've written a lot lately -- here and in longer reports -- on the importance of mobile payments. Standards have yet to emerge in the U.S. and there's lots of experimentation. But once it hits full stride, it will enable lots of…
Last week, I had the chance to catch up with Convergent Mobile, a company we profiled here about a year ago. According to company President Mickey Breen, it's making progress in working with local reseller partners and also building out…
I recently had the chance to talk to Eugene Belenky, founder of SMS marketing tool TXTio, which launched today. Targeted toward merchants that wish to drive local foot traffic and offers, the product's main selling point is its simplicity. Belenky…
My monthly Search Engine Watch column is up. It takes a closer look at our recent forecast and why search is the fastest growing revenue source among mobile ad formats. It has a lot to do with the increasingly vaunted…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts over the past week from our Mobile Local Media blog. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed here, and the e-mail alert here. -- Over at SEW: Will…
In case you missed our webinar yesterday, it's available as a streaming video file (slides and audio) here. The webinar was a great success with nearly 600 attendees and the entire BIA/Kelsey analyst team. Each analyst took a turn explaining…
Google is out with a dedicated iPhone app for Places. The app is built around local categories presented in a Grid -- not unlike Facebook's ubiquitous app or the iPhone home screen itself. The category browsing also makes it more…
Who can forget Jon Stewart's rant on Antennagate, or last week's Facebook Flaming. "The Daily Show" has a way of putting some of the ridiculous events in the tech world into perspective. The latest of course is yesterday's Verizon iPhone…
We've seen a clear movement from pull-based mobile search to push-based mobile content discovery. Where recently went down this road; mobile discovery engine Aloqa was acquired by Motorola earlier this year; and Foursquare and its ilk continue to evolve in this direction.…
We all knew it was coming -- both long term and more definitively since Verizon sent out press invitations to today's event. The Verizon iPhone is here. It's much like the iPhone 4 that runs on AT&T's network except its…
From the cool stuff department, Google's Goggles mobile visual search tool can now read print ads and (the cool part) Sudoku boards. As part of a new update that includes faster scans, Goggles will now recognize any newspaper or magazine…
EBay has issued a press release today, recounting some of its mobile milestones this year. Most notable was the 166 percent year-over-year increase in holiday gross merchandise value (11/25-12/25) to $230 million. Designer handbags, diamond jewelry and Rolex watches topped…
The past few weeks saw lots of activity in the mobile world. Among other things, we released our mobile forecast, threw a big conference and watched the winding down of the biggest year in mobile's history. In case you missed…
I'm catching up with a slew of items after being out for a week, including our forthcoming 2011 predictions. In the spirit of looking forward, mobile ad exchange Mobclix looks back on the top mobile trends of 2010. This of…
Following Google's Carter Maslan at ILM:10 last week, we got to hear about Google Ventures’ investment parameters from partner Wesley Chan. The fund invests in tech companies at every stage from seed to mezzanine. Its portfolio includes HomeAway, 23andMe, ngmoco,…
Last month I had lunch with Infogroup's Pankaj Mathur to discuss a range of topics in mobile and local media. One thing we discussed was a new Twitter partnership that was then under wraps. Today the wrapping was taken off.…
EMarketer just posted new data on its blog showing comparative shares of time spent per day per medium. What stands out for me is that mobile is up 28 percent this year to 50 minutes per day. Also interesting --…
Carter Maslan, Google product director for local search, took the stage during last week's ILM:10 conference to track and extrapolate the advancement of online local media. The aha moment for Maslan was when he was at Microsoft and his friend…
