In the spirit of top-ten lists flying at us this time of year, voice search provider Vlingo has revealed the top searches across its mobile apps (via TechCrunch). The list affirms much of what we know about mobile search behavior,…
Ford has announced that it will include iTunes tagging technology in some new car models starting next year. This will allow users to press a button to indicate interest in a song playing from their HD radio receiver, then download…
Lately, we've been hearing more about shopping search start-up Spreezio, a kind of Priceline for merchandise (TechCrunch profiles it today). In other words, you name the price that represents the threshold at which you'd buy, and then see who bites.…
Michael Arrington is reporting that Google's rumored Yelp acquisition has fallen through in late stages. More details will likely emerge over time.
Rumors continue throughout the morning after last night's TechCrunch post that Google is in talks to buy Yelp for half a billion dollars. The New York Times has more details and is practically "calling" the deal in the way of…
Mobile bar code scanning app Red Laser has reached the elusive feat of being among the iPhone's top five paid apps for three consecutive months (via MobileCrunch). Oh yeah, and the $1.99 app has brought in $1 million in subscription…
Millennial Media, in the spirit of its monthly SMART reports, is one of the first to join the requisite torrent of year-end predictions. According to the mobile ad network, we'll see over the next year: 1. The U.S. Mobile Web…
During an online mapping panel at our Interactive Local Media conference last week, we discussed how feature rollouts have slowed from their frenetic pace of a few years ago. This includes street-level imagery, satellite, multi-point directions and a number of…
Last week during the Interactive Local Media conference, search marketing company Kenshoo launched a new division to tackle the challenging but opportunistic area of local. I spent some time talking with division head Sivan Metzger both on and off the…
In addition to "real time search," discussed in the previous post, Google today announced new mobile products. These include improved voice search technology, product search, and a mobile visual search product called "Goggles." Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra prefaced…
Google held one of its search events today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The company's mission has always been to improve relevance (the basis for revenues via higher CTRs) and today's announcements boil down to recent…
We've written about augmented reality a few times but have mostly dismissed it as "blue sky." Though there's quite a long way for the technology and business models to go, it's still one of the cooler areas of mobile app…
UMass Dartmouth's Center for Marketing Research has released its annual study of social media marketing, showing that a whopping 91 percent of firms use at least one social media tool. This is up from 57 percent two years ago. One…
BIA/Kelsey's geotargeted display ad forecast was released today, projecting 16 percent annual growth from $897 million in 2008 to $1.9 billion in 2013. The geotargeted segment of the overall display ad market (banner advertising) will meanwhile grow from 10.2 percent…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Digital Newsstand: Food for Thought for YP Industry? The New York Times reported yesterday that four leading magazine publishers…
Fashion magazine Lucky has rolled out a new site that lets readers locate, get specs, and/or buy the products featured within its pages. Partnering with loyalty shopping network Mall Networks, the site will include 100,000 fashion items from 450 brands.…
Online restaurant booking success story OpenTable has started to make moves into mobile -- both building apps and distributing its reservation system to other app partners. This is a logical move, given that arts and entertainment is a big category…
The discussion volume for geolocation continues to be turned up. The latest example is the geolocation panel that took place at TechCrunch's Real Time Crunchup on Friday. If you missed it, you can see the entire session here. If you…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Business Transformation Top of Mind for European Publishers I've just spend two days attending the Yellow Pages Today event…
Copenhagen-based mobilepeople has been making moves throughout North America over the past year, starting with its deal to power the DexKnows suite of mobile products for directory publisher R.H. Donnelley. Its latest deal, announced today, is to power the mobile…
