Google’s head of consumer payments Vikas Gupta has resigned, AllThingsD reports. Separately, former vice president Stephanie Tilenius also has left to work in another position at Google. To be sure, it would not be unusual if an entrepreneur whose firm was acquired by … Continue reading →

Online advertising will will exceed print spending in 2012 for the first time, eMarketer now predicts.  U.S. online ad spending will grow by 23.3 percent in 2012, eMarketer projects, to $39.5 billion. It expects print advertising to reach $33.8 billion in … Continue reading →

Mobile banking is becoming banking, a PwC survey suggests. Mobile banking will be the norm by 2015 and consumers will be willing to pay up to $15 per month for mobile banking services that offer convenience and value. Key to the … Continue reading →

Where click through rates are concerned, screen size matters. Simply put, larger screens tend to get higher click through rates, and some devices tend to have higher engagement than others. Smart phone screens tend to get click throughs at about … Continue reading →

FIS has developed a mobile payments solution that allows consumers to use most smart phones to make purchases at the point-of-sale (POS) as well as online, and requires only downloaded applications for both consumers and retailers. Importantly, the mobile payments … Continue reading →

Major revenue streams and businesses have been built in the mobile business using several different models. Apple has built its business on device sales. Google has built its business on search advertising. AT&T and Verizon Wireless have built their businesses … Continue reading →

The U.S. mobile advertising market is growing far faster than expected, driven by the rapid ascension of Google’s mobile search advertising business, advertisers’ growing attraction to display inventory on tablet and smartphone devices, and the growing roster of mobile ad … Continue reading →

Obopay has partnered with Warid Telecom, a Pakistan-based postpaid cellular phone service provider, to launch a mobile banking and payment service in Uganda. Warid Pesa allows customers to transfer money to other people and merchants, request money, obtain statements, obtain … Continue reading →

Consumer and business content consumption patterns appear to be changing as tablet and e-reader ownership grow super fast. In fact, one might argue that tablets and e-readers are being adopted faster than any other consumer electronics or communications products of … Continue reading →