Talking Mobile With Two of Facebook’s Key Chat Heads (Full Dive Video)

At D: Dive Into Mobile, CTO Mike Schroepfer and Facebook Home creator Cory Ondrejka talked about what it took to build Facebook Home and where the social network plans to go from here.
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Apple Nears 50 Billion App Store Downloads, Plans Giveaway

Cupertino will give $10,000 in apps to whoever downloads the milestone app, with 50 runners-up getting $500.
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Google’s Jason Spero and Millennial’s Mollie Spilman Talk Dollars at Dive Into Mobile (Video)

Small screens equal big bucks, or so say two of the bigger names in the mobile ad business.
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T-Mobile Settles Claim That Its No-Strings Plans Have Too Many Strings

Washington state alleged that T-Mobile wasn’t being upfront with customers about their obligations to fully pay off a phone before canceling service.
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Firefox CEO Kovacs Makes Case for Firefox OS at Dive Into Mobile (Video)

Mozilla chief Gary Kovacs, who is stepping down by year’s end, clearly hasn’t lost any enthusiasm when it comes to the potential for the mobile Web.
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Mobile Goes Global

From New York City today and tomorrow, D: Dive Into Mobile puts top execs onstage for their perspective on the global mobile scene.
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Carriers in Most of the World to See Flat Revenue While Emerging Markets Take Off

Three countries — China, India and Brazil — will account for more than half of all revenue growth for carriers worldwide.
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Coming to Your Phone: Ads That Talk Back to You (Video)

Nuance is working with brands, agencies and publishers to create a new type of mobile advertising that incorporate Siri-style voice response.
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Galaxy S III, iPhone Users Not So Different After All

Hey, iPhone and Galaxy lovers: Hate all you want, you’re all just the same. That’s the conclusion of a new study surveying owners of the two leading smartphones.
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BlackBerry 10 Is Ready to Ship, and Its Band Is Back Together

The band you love to hate (and hate to admit you love) is back at it, crooning about all the apps for BlackBerry 10.
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Veteran Developer-Relations Exec Richard Kerris Leaving Nokia

T-Mobile Shouts Back at AT&T While Its Network Team Quietly Builds Away

Sprint Dips Its Toe Into Shared Data Pools

AT&T Attacks T-Mobile in New Ad, Says Rival the One Dropping More Calls

Meet Mozilla’s Host of New Mobile Partners

Nvidia Readies Its First Chip With LTE Built In

Opera Buying Rival Mobile Browser Skyfire

RIM Aims for Reinvention With BlackBerry 10 Launch

Mozilla Looks to Entice Developers With Firefox OS Phones

It’s Getting More Costly for iPhone App Makers to Get Loyal Customers

Taiwan’s MediaTek Enters the Quad-Core Chip Race