Last week we wrote about Foursquare's new trial to promote a nationwide venue for its users to check in to. What better way to get it going than Suber Bowl XLV? Now the fix is in: Besides a few overwhelmed…
I just heard from the good folks at Yelp that they'll integrate OpenTable reservations on Phone, iPad and Android apps. The free app update is already live in iTunes and Android Market. This extends each company's logical tie-ins (already present…
Q&A sites like Answers.com, Yahoo Answers and ChaCha have been around for a while. They generate huge amounts of traffic because they create millions of pages that target common (and not-so-common) search queries like "how tall is justin beiber?" And…
Tomorrow BIA/Kelsey will publish a report on the exploding area of mobile payments. One of our biggest 2011 predictions was how emerging standards in this area will accelerate innovation across the industry. This will not only apply to obvious areas…
On the heels of record revenues for Q4, AT&T Interactive today launched a new version of its flagship YP Mobile app for iPhone. David Williams, ATTi VP of mobile products, tells me the new app is a complete redesign from…
Foursquare is trialling a new nationally featured place to check in to: Super Bowl XLV. "Super Bowl Sunday" will be available in the trending now section on Foursquare's mobile apps. If you check in and shout which team you're rooting…
After many months of only running into the folks at Urban Mapping at conferences, I recently visited their new S.F. offices to get a proper update. There's lots happening there. Some of you may know the company as providing the…
Google announced yesterday that its Latitude mobile social product will integrate place check-ins. Active first on Android (iPhone TBD), it includes the following features: -- Notifications: Turn on check-in notifications in Latitude’s settings and get a notification to check in…
I recently had the chance to follow up with Locomatix, a company I was first introduced to at our ILM:10 show. Utilizing technology developed at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), it joins the emerging sector of platforms and toolsets to build location-based…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts over the past week from our mobile coverage. We'll slowly be phasing out our Mobile Local Media blog so that we can consolidate content here on…
Yesterday I had the chance to talk to Foursquare GM Evan Cohen. A former Jupiter analyst and Bebo exec, Cohen was brought aboard last year to help steer the ship amid rapid growth. The wide reaching discussion hit upon the…
Mobile ad network Greystripe today announced a deal with Media Networks Inc. to better sell locally targeted mobile advertising. It's mostly a channel deal that utilizes MNI's sales force to sell local ads on Greystripe's mobile network. This lets Greystripe better…
It's a well-cited stat that almost 200 million Facebook users access the network monthly on mobile devices. That's out of a total user base that is approaching 600 million (1/10 of the planet). At the Inside Mobile Apps conference in…
Google continues a long line of recent mobile advertising additions with today's launch of Boost ads for mobile. This is essentially the mobile version of Boost, which it launched on the desktop in October. There it joined Tags in an…
Often we'll cover mobile apps that actually utilize the form factor (portability, location, camera, accelerometer, etc.). Not often enough, we'll cover apps that accomplish some degree of social good. Sometimes we'll hit up both, like with Good Guide or City…
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…
