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Windows Phone, iOS Outpace Android

Google's Android operating system leads the smartphone market with a majority 51.7 percent share in the United States, but competitors are gaining ground, according to a report released Monday by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech ...

Amazon Spreads Its Influence With Single Sign-In

Amazon on Tuesday announced a feature that lets users access websites using their Amazon account information. The goal of Login with Amazon is to reduce sign-in friction by providing secure credentials to websites, apps, games and other online access points on the Web, as well as on Android and iOS devices ...

Tablets to Demote Laptops to Also-Ran Status This Year

Tablets continue to gain momentum in the worldwide marketplace. The category is forecast to grow nearly 60 percent, surpassing laptop shipments this year and all PC categories by 2015, according to two reports released Tuesday by IDC. ...

Kutcher’s Insight Into Mobile Investments Is No Act

Actor Ashton Kutcher has his hand in more than just the show Two and a Half Men and other roles, including his portrayal of Steve Jobs in the upcoming film Jobs ...

Walmart’s Mobile App Aims for ‘Indispensable’ Customer Tools

The key for developing a mobile strategy? Understand the customer. That was the theme of Wednesday's keynote presentations at CTIA 2013, the wireless industry trade show held this week in Las Vegas. ...

MicroStrategy’s Saylor: Our Mobile Identity Completes Us

Mobile identity was the theme that kicked off at a keynote speech Tuesday at CTIA 2013, the wireless industry trade show under way this week in Las Vegas. ...

New Chair Puts Spectrum, Access High on FCC’s Priority List

During her keynote address at the opening session of the CTIA 2013 wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas, acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn spoke of continuing the work of her predecessor -- with a slight shift from focusing on rural communities to addressing the needs of the underprivileged ...

Pinterest Tacks On Brand-Friendly Features

Pinterest on Monday announced new features and relationships with brands that will bring more functionality to its pins. The features, according to the social bookmarking company, will make the pins more "useful." ...

Google Wallet Takes on PayPal With Gmail Money Transfers

In an effort to boost adoption of Google Wallet, Google this week added features to the service that allow users to send money as an email attachment. The company is also trying to simplify the mobile payment process for consumers and businesses. ...

Microsoft May Pull the Plug on Xbox Points

Microsoft may cash in its Points virtual payment system. ...

Square Stand Lets Small Retailers Put Their iPads to Work

Square announced Tuesday it would reach out to retail outlets with its new Square Stand, an iPad dock that can handle business transactions and customer analytics. The mobile payments processing startup said small and medium-sized businesses would be able to collect customer loyalty information when they ring up sales ...

Amazon Mints Coins and Makes Deposits in All Kindle Fires

Amazon Kindle owners have a new way to pay for games, apps and in-app purchases -- Amazon Coins ...

Icahn Leads New Pitch to Win Dell Shareholders

Two of Dell's largest stockholders, Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, have teamed up to propose an alternative to Michael Dell's plansto take his computer company private. ...

Trulia Rolls Out Welcome Mat for Real Estate Pros

In a move to bolster its offerings for the real estate market, Trulia said this week that it would acquire Market Leader, a Software as a Service-based CRM company targeting agents and brokers. The acquisition, expected to close in the fall, will provide Trulia with tools to help real estate professionals manage and track leads ...

T-Mobile Enjoys Strong but Limited iPhone 5 Q1 Bounce

T-Mobile sold approximately 500,000 iPhone 5 handsets since their April 12 launch with the carrier, the company announced Tuesday during its Q1 earnings report. T-Mobile -- the last of the major carriers to offer Apple's smartphone -- attributed those sales to a combination of new and existing customers ...

Pre-Roll Ads Will Soon Know Where You’ve Shopped Online

Pre-roll video ads are about to get smarter, according to OwnerIQ, a digital advertising company that is adding targeting data based on consumer browser behavior to online video ads. ...

Nielsen Logs On to Test Digital TV Content Ratings

As TV audiences move online, it has become necessary to measure those viewers in new ways. Nielsen had that shift in mind this week when it launched Nielsen Digital Program Ratings, a pilot program which measures audiences for TV content viewed online. ...

Salesforce Slips Social Ads Into Its Cloud Atlas

Salesforce.com expanded its advertising initiatives this week with the launch of Social.com, a platform designed to help brands tie ad campaigns to what's trending on social networks ...

Cue the Video for Facebook’s Maturing Ad Platform

Facebook may soon be adding video ads, a key step in the development of an advertising platform that needs to draw interest from brands that may have previously questioned its return on investment ...

Mobile Ad Spend Is Starting to Look Like Serious Money

Internet advertising experienced double-digit growth in 2012 for a record US$37 billion in revenue, according to a report this week from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The largest increase was in the second half of the year, where both the third and fourth quarters topped previous records. ...

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