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Commonwealth Bank of Australia recently announced an increased focus on its mobile banking systems in what was another signal that Australian consumers are becoming more comfortable with their mobile devices. Read Original Content

The results of a study conducted by Walker Sands Communications, a marketing and public relations firm, has revealed 23.14 percent of visits to websites that occurred in December 2012 were of the mobile commerce nature, having stemmed from smartphones and tablets. Read Original Content

A new report from eMarketer forecasts a huge growth in tablet spending in North America. M-commerce strictly from tablets is expected to reach $24 billion this year. Read Original Content

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Spending on mobile paid search and mobile display advertising in North America hit $3.95 billion in 2012, up 213 percent from $1.26 billion in 2011, research firm eMarketer Inc. says. Read Original Content

Ticket seller Fandango has been at the forefront of mobile ticketing, and business is booming. Mobile ticket sales increased 171 percent in 2012 over 2011 and accounted for more than 30 percent of the company’s overall ticket sales, Fandango reports. Read Original Content

Groupon has announced its mobile payments service is now available to Android users, after launching first on the iPhone in September. The service allows merchants to accept credit cards and debit cards by swiping them through a card reader attached to a mobile device, like an iPhone or iPod touch or Android device. Read Original Content

Customers in Salt Lake City and Portland are being invited to beta test U.S. Bank's new Go Mobile payments service, using an iPhone NFC case that stores a FlexPerks Visa credit card. Read Original Content

The mobile payment market in China looks to be turning into a force to be reckoned with. Market research firm Analysys International recently predicted that by 2015, mobile payments in the People’s Republic would top $114 billion. Read Original Content

According to Juniper Research, 590 million mobile phone users across the globe will use their device for banking purposes by 2013; by the end of 2017 the number will exceed one billion. Read Original Content

Mobile advertising prices rose dramatically in the fourth quarter of 2012, as the advertising season kicked into high gear. In fact, the metric for effective cost per thousand impressions was up 50 percent, new data suggests. Read Original Content

Facebook is making quick progress in growing its mobile advertising business, according to major ad platform Kenshoo. It sees 20 percent of all Facebook ad spend going to mobile. Read Original Content

Berg Insight estimates 4.4 percent of the total global ad spend across all media will be targeted at the phone screen in 2017. Read Original Content

mCommerce is surging according to a new report from eMarketer that shows smartphones and tablets contributing to escalating levels of mobile and online sales. eMarketer estimates U.S. retail mCommerce sales exploded 81 percent to nearly $25 billion. Read Original Content

Online sales accounted for 80 percent of its total sales over Christmas, up from 74 percent in 2011, and mobile accounted for 28 percent of all online sales, soaring 150 percent year-on-year. Read Original Content

Despite the hype, 41 percent of U.S. shoppers – that’s close on 103 million Americans – currently won’t use their smartphones or tablets to buy products and services online, new research reveals. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

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M2M, Social and Enterprise Mobility Strategies and Trends
Mobile Data, Filtering and Real-Time Decision Making

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