As e-commerce startup Fruugo closes its Helsinki office, its CEO takes a moment to attack the “deliberate negativity” from Finland’s press and entrepreneurs. But with $48m burned and no revenues, perhaps… Read more »
Polar Mobile — the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustr… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to give a line on where it sees NFC in its future product and service roadmaps, but that doesn’t mean the company… Read more »
Location, location, location: it’s the time-honored mantra of real-estate agents and retailers, but could just as well be applied to Google… Read more »
Much of this growth will be driven by the emergence of NFC technology and contactless payments. The existing NFC-enabled POS infrastructure in developed regions such as the U.S., Europe and Japan,… Read more »
Location-based marketing still suffers from user-privacy issues, user awareness and a lack of extensive local advertising networks. But the combination of GPS-enabled location pinpointing and the embrace of social networks has… Read more »
A big move in mobile payments today: eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has announced that it is buying the mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in… Read more »