Daily Deals Meet Mobile in Groupon/ShopSavvy Deal
ShopSavvy, a mobile barcode scanning app we've written about many times, has integrated Groupon deals as part of a new partnership announced today. Its 10 million users will be able to…
ShopSavvy Comes to the iPhone
One of our favorite mobile products is ShopSavvy, the Android-based app that essentially turns your phone into a bar code scanner. It now joins the 100,000-deep library of iPhone apps.…
ShopSavvy Localizes Mobile Shopping, Care of Krillion
Krillion announced today that it will power product inventory search on the ShopSavvy application for Google Android based phones. This app gets high marks on the cool factor. Produced by…
Local.com Buys Krillion; Will Integrate Retail Information
Finally, we have the long awaited merger of a directory with a retail solution. Today, prior to its earnings call, Local.com announced it would integrate product and store availability into…
Wishpond Adds Social, Local Elements to Retail Inventory
Retail inventory has been revving up as a new, highly mobile-oriented tool for retailers to highlight stock on hand and steer consumers to store locations. It is an important lead-generating…
The Week in Mobile: MLM Roundup
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts we've written over the past week from the wide world of mobile sports. -- More Infographics…
Google’s New Link Shortener (and Secret QR Code Generator)
Google is out with a new more widely accessible version of its link shortening tool at goo.gl. Like longstanding competitors bit.ly and Tiny URL, it will shorten any link to be…
Big Box, Still a Ways to Go With Mobile
According to an eMarketer report out today, 80 percent of retailers still don't have a mobile product or marketing channel. This isn't terribly surprising given that we're still in the…
Mobile Bar Code Scanning Heats Up: RedLaser Reaches 50 Million Scans
Related to our ongoing blog coverage of mobile bar code scanning (and BIA/Kelsey report released last week), Occipital announced its RedLaser app has reached 50 million scans. Other milestones include…
AdTech Dispatch: A Conversation With Scanbuy
I'm at AdTech today speaking on a mobile marketing panel and squeezing in whatever briefings I can. I just had the chance to meet with Scanbuy, one of the companies…