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InMobi has released its latest round of stats and, for the first time, Apple has recorded negative growth in impressions. Impressions served on Apple mobile devices fell 0.4 percent over the last three months, while Android saw an increase of 2.7 percent from the previous quarter. Read Original Content

Gartner predicts that in 2016 there will be 448 million m-payment users, in a market worth $617 billion. Read Original Content

Vodafone on Monday signed a multi-year contract with NFC security specialist Gemalto that will support the rollout of contactless payment services across the operator's global footprint. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

A total of 30 Girl Scout councils throughout the country offered mobile payments earlier this year, allowing the girls to accept debit or credit card payments through an attachment on mobile devices. Sales, primarily done outside retail stores and door-to-door, increased significantly. Read Original Content

As part of Facebook’s third-quarter results, the world's biggest social media company disclosed for the first time that some 14 percent of its ad revenue came from mobile advertising. Read Original Content

Apple’s iPhone remains the number one smartphone device when it comes to monetization, according to Opera’s “State of Mobile Advertising” report for the third quarter of 2012. Read Original Content


Research firm eMarketer estimates that spending on mobile advertising in the U.S. will reach $2.61 billion in 2012, before soaring to nearly $12 billion in 2016. Read Original Content

Some 43 percent of retailers said they will raise online marketing budgets – investing in either mobile, social or email marketing channels during the holiday season, according to a new study analyzing expectation of holiday advertising and sales. Read Original Content

The practice of showrooming is likely to play a key role in the upcoming holiday shopping season, with 56 percent of shoppers saying they will compare prices online using a smartphone, according to a new study from Accenture. Read Original Content

Nearly a third of vehicle shoppers who intend to buy or lease a new vehicle within the next two years visited mobile versions of automotive Web sites via smartphones to research a vehicle purchase, up from 24 percent last year and 17 percent in 2010. Read Original Content

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was in Vancouver Wednesday to mark the Canadian launch of his mobile payments service Square, a system that gives everyone from babysitters to baristas a simple and cheap way to accept credit cards. Read Original Content

The Internet browser company Opera released its latest State of Mobile Advertising report, which indicates that, despite the growth of Android and other platforms, iOS continues to dominate when it comes to monetizing mobile ads. Read Original Content

Canadian wireless telecom company and BlackBerry creator, Research In Motion, announced its intentions to manage credentials for wireless handsets in Canada for use in NFC mobile payments. Read Original Content

Purdue last weekend became one of just four schools in the nation to introduce StubHub's mobile ticketing technology at its game against Wisconsin at Ross-Ade Stadium. Read Original Content

Ticketscript sells more than 75 percent of all the Amsterdam Dance Event tickets. In 2012 ADE sales statistics through ticketscript have shown a sharp increase in the number of tickets purchased via a mobile phone compared to 2011. The ticket sales via smartphones have risen from 3 percent last year to 12 percent this year. Read Original Content

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