Medialets, a mobile advertising startup that specializes in interactive ads, has closed a Series B financing round of $6 million from its original backers The Foundry Group and DFJ Gotham, along… Read more »
Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker says the mobile market is growing at a phenomenal rate, that online advertising could finally be entering its “golden age,” and that online commerce is also… Read more »
Google’s mobile services are at least partially blocked for users in mainland China, according to the page that Google set up recently to track which of its services are available to… Read more »
Zoompass, a mobile payment service offered by a group of Canadian telecom companies, is offering a sticker that attaches to any cellphone or handheld device and turns it into a “tap-and-pay”… Read more »
As Twitter prepares to launch its own advertising platform for the social network, other companies are also rushing to take advantage of that opportunity. 140proof just launched a targeted advertising service… Read more »
The U.S. Army is launching an “Apps For The Army” competition aimed at developing mobile and web-based applications. A joint venture with iStrategyLabs, the contest involves 100 teams competing over a… Read more »
Scribd, which calls itself the world’s largest social publishing company, has launched a series of mobile services and features for sending books and other documents to any portable device, including a… Read more »