Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 8 at 4:30 am PT
Andreessen Horowitz has invested $10 million in Belly, a Chicago-based company that is building a loyalty network for retailers that will replace punch cards with mobile rewards.
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Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 7 at 7:30 am PT
Personal-computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. said Monday that it plans to spend about $800 million on a new base to house the development, production and sale of mobile products as the Chinese company tries to expand beyond its core PC business.
Tricia Duryee in Mobile on December 27, 2011 at 10:07 am PT
A record number of applications were downloaded on Dec. 25, making it a very “appy” Christmas for at least some mobile developers.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 30, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT
A quick look at what Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff will talk about in his Dreamforce keynote Wednesday. A hint: It will have something to do with the social enterprise.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 16, 2011 at 5:32 pm PT
Hints that sales of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad are slow have been numerous. But sales data from Best Buy and other retailers shows just how slow those sales are.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 25, 2011 at 5:15 am PT
Imagine answering a call or playing a game on your mobile device without having to touch a button or the screen.
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Joe Light, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 15, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
This year, magazine publisher Hearst Corp. intends to add five software engineers to its mobile development staff. Social-networking company Ning Inc. plans to nearly double its mobile development team. And Web start-up Where Inc. is on track to double its mobile staff this year after quadrupling it in 2010.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 29, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Companies want to build their own iPad and iPhone apps for internal use, but don’t want to use the iTunes App Store to distribute and manage them. Enter Apperian, which offers secure internal app stores for enterprises, and has landed an investment from North Bridge, Bessemer and the Kleiner Perkins iFund.
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Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 15, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT
Google Inc., as part of its goal to allow shoppers to use their mobile devices–rather than physical credit cards–to pay for goods in retail stores, is working on a potential partnership with electronic-payments company VeriFone Systems Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter.
