Facebook has just acquired mobile commerce startup Karma, which makes apps for gifting friends and family. The terms of the deal are undisclosed but 16 employees of the startup will be joining Facebook. The purchase will help Facebook build up monetization prowess on mobile platforms — an area that it had said it’s admittedly weak [...]
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Facebook’s Acquisition of Karma Brings Mobile Commerce, App Monetization Prowess
May 18th, 2012 
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Comments OffNot so controversial Time Magazine mobile apps
May 18th, 2012 admin For those of you that don’t know TIME Magazine is the world’s largest circulation weekly news magazine that was first created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. It is published in New York City and a European version is published in London that also covers Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Today… [...]
Download The Dark Shadows apps for mobile
May 18th, 2012 admin If you are a fan on American Gothic soap opera The Dark Shadows, and now obviously a new movie starting Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins who makes his home in Collinsport in the year 1972, and is cursed and buried by a witch some 200 years previous, and returns to his ancestral home, then you… [...]
Facebook’s IPO is a jackpot for some, despite dark shadow of mobile
May 18th, 2012 admin Today is Facebook Day, the day when the most-successful-social-network-so-far opened up to public investment and outshone all other American IPOs up to this point. With shares initially priced at , Facebook (FB) opened at .99 on the Nasdaq at 11:30am EST on Friday. After a brief delay in trading on Friday, a reported 82 million [...]
Virgin Mobile gets on Google Wallet bandwagon with $25 promo
May 18th, 2012 admin Virgin Mobile has become the latest wireless carrier to get behind the future of mobile commerce that is Google Wallet. The provider shot out an email today advising that customers who pick up the new LG Optimus Elite can activate Google Wallet and score credit in the process. The catch is that you have to [...]
Virgin Mobile giving $25 in Google Wallet credits to everyone who activates an LG Optimus Elite
May 18th, 2012 admin Virgin Mobile is running an interesting promotion to get people to buy their newly-launched LG Optimus Elite. They’re giving of Google Wallet credit to use at participating retailers and shops. This is no doubt a promotion to highlight the device’s NFC chip and to encourage users to try out mobile payments, a fairly new field [...]
Wait for iPhone 5 sees mobile market drop
May 18th, 2012 admin It appears that quite a few in the mobile space could be waiting patiently for Apple to deliver their next iOS smartphone in the form of the iPhone 5, as apparently global sales of mobile phones have dropped for the first time since 2009, apparently due to those awaiting the arrival of the iPhone 5…. [...]
France: 2.6 million people sign-up for Free Mobile in 80 days!
May 18th, 2012 admin Iliad’s Free Mobile, which launched its mobile services in France at the beginning of the year, signed up 2.6 million subscribers by the end of the first quarter or almost 4% of the country’s mobile market in just 80 days. According to Free Mobile’s figures, the total French market had grown by 854,000 subscribers in [...]
US Cellular launches the Samsung SCH-LC11 mobile hotspot
May 18th, 2012 admin US Cellular today has launched the Samsung SCH-LC11 Mobile Hotpost, a lightweight device that provides you with high-speed connectivity via US Cellular’s 4G LTE network. The device allows you to connect up to five Wi-Fi devices to enjoy speeds of up to ten times faster than 3G. The Samsung SCH-LC11 is easy to connect to [...]
Eduardo Saverin Backs Mobile Wallet Contender Crowdmob
May 17th, 2012 admin Eduardo Saverin may no longer be a U.S. citizen. But that’s not stopping him from investing in American companies. In fact, he just closed a deal. He’s backing Crowdmob, a startup that’s blending app promotion with discounts from local merchants. The startup’s long-term ambition is to play in the mobile wallet space, where phones may [...]
