‘Money’ Archives
EA adding online games to reduce reliance on retail sales
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), trading near lows not seen since March 1999, climbed as much as 8.4 percent after reporting a smaller quarterly loss than analysts expected and saying it would buy back as much as $500 million in stock. The second-largest U.S. video-game maker, [Read More]
What’s happening to Zynga?
Analysts are taking another look at the online social games industry after Zynga missed the mark in its second-quarter earnings report. The San Francisco-based creator of such popular online games as FarmVille and Mafia Wars had a dizzying market capitalization of $8.5 [Read More]
Apple buys AuthenTec for $365 million
Could purchase of fingerprint sensor specialist accelerate move into m-commerce space? AuthenTec’s tech is used for identifying users – often in payment situations. It works with Asian phone makers, including Apple’s arch rival Samsung. So this deal has got [Read More]
Blockbuster buys mobile payments company Alpha Bay
Video rental retailer Blockbuster is getting into the mobile payments game and has acquired mobile point-of-sale software company Alpha Bay. Blockbuster will be using the Alpha Bay platform in its stores to improve in-store customer service, enhance inventory management and [Read More]
Facebook mobile ads perform better than desktop ads says new research
Facebook generated $872 million in total advertising revenue in 2012, up 37% from 2011. Facebook’s been focusing on the potential of mobile ads, especially after its IPO when investors and Facebook lost the hope with mobile’s potential. In June, however the social [Read More]
3D Startup Real5D Raises $1.2m To Let You Walk Around Real Estate Construction Plans
3D visualization technology has been around for some time, so Real5D closing a $1.2 million Seria A rund from the U.S. venture fund DoubleRock might look out of place to some. But San Francisco-based startup Real5D has taken 3D visualization to an interesting level of [Read More]
Mobile Marketing Association gets $1 million for major study
Greg Stuart, CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), announced that the association has secured over $1 million in funding to launch the first-ever global, in-market research project that will evaluate the return on investment that mobile contributes to the marketing [Read More]
Are mobile privacy concerns stalling consumers from shopping?
While 82% of mobile owners store contact information on their devices, 81% of device owners would probably (30%) or definitely (51%) not allow social networking applications to mine those contacts for friend suggestions, and 93% would probably (18%) or definitely (75%) not [Read More]
How universal one-click payments will change our payment world
Here’s how Stripe is different, according to a must-read post by Sarah Lacy at Pando Daily: acting as if it were a bank, Stripe does its own risk analysis on businesses that sign up with it, which means they can let anyone start processing payments immediately, [Read More]
Mobile commerce big and getting BIGGER
How big is mobile commerce really? Well according to a recent infographic by German Internet statistics company, Statista, The number of smartphone and tablet users has increased fourfold over the last two years. There are currently close to 120 million smartphone users in [Read More]
