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Apple Intends to Join the Smartphone as Wallet Revolution, Plans to Roll Out NFC

By Kyt Dotson Jan 25, 2011

Near-field Communication made its first appearance the Android ecosystem, but its obvious usefulness for smartphone payments has made it a powerful technology for the personal transaction industry. The technology only exists in a few…

Akamai’s State of the Internet Report Looks at Global Connectivity Trends

By Maria Deutscher Jan 25, 2011

Cloud optimizer Akamai released the Akamai State of the Internet Report for Q3, 2010 which reports internet speed statistics based on requests the Akamai network receives. In Q3 over 533 million unique IP addresses…

New Media Minute: Real-Time Bidding – The Hot New Online Ad Growth Sector

By Daisy Whitney Jan 25, 2011

One of the hottest areas in the digital ad business is real-time bidding and it’s poised for more growth this year, according to several new studies. While less than one-third of Web publishers offered…

Net Neutrality Power Grab Is Worse than Obamacare

By Seton Motley Jan 25, 2011

There are a lot of similarities between the nine-month-long shove of ObamaCare across the legislative finish line and the four-plus year Media Marxist push to the December 21st 3-2 Democrat Party-line Federal Communications Commission…

Super Rewards Brings Virtual Goods System to Android Games, Expects 9 Figure Revenue in 2011

By Kristen Nicole Jan 25, 2011

Super Rewards is well known for its in-app montization, taking over social gaming on Facebook’s platform from relatively early on. The company has its sights set on another platform (and sector, for that matter):…

Cirtas Sitting Pretty with Another $22.5M in Funding, New CEO

By Kristen Nicole Jan 25, 2011

Cirtas is one of those cloud startups with a fairy tale story you don’t tire of hearing. Launched last September with $10 million in funding, the cloud storage company gained early support from investors…

Tablets, Cloud to Drive Mobile App Development in 2011: Appcelerator Report

By Kristen Nicole Jan 25, 2011

Many wonder where the mobile industry is headed—it’s poised for so many directions in software distribution (can we say app-happy?), mobile web access (hello HTML5), and much, much more. So what happens when you…

Ubermedia Adds Mixx.com to its Set of Twitter Apps

By Kristina Farrah Jan 24, 2011

UberMedia, an app developer for Twitter and the company behind Echofon, Twidroyd and UberTwitter, today announced the acquisition of Mixx.com, a leader in curating social content into channel of information that enable users to…

“Check Ins” Propels Unprecedented Growth, Foursquare Worth $250M

By Cherr Aira Jan 24, 2011

Web and mobile application Foursquare posts a revealing, but not surprising update on its massive growth. At press time, anything or anyone that has been associated with social networking champion Facebook gets funding and…