NEW YORK – Mobile continues to play a big role in marketing strategies and new technologies such as Google Glass, as well as relevant and personalized content are top priorities this year, according to attendees at the 2013 MMA Forum.

Are small business owners really using mobile technology for their business? This week, the team at Constant Contact set out to answer that question. And according to the findings of their sweeping new survey, the answer is a resounding “yes.” Of those surveyed, 66 percent report currently using a mobile device, including smartphones and tablets, [...]

As Facebook has shown with acquisitions in the past – including the Instagram buy for $1 billion – the social networking giant isn’t afraid to pour cash into a company it wants to absorb. According to the rumor mill Thursday morning, the next target for acquisition on Mark Zuckerberg’s radar is Waze. Reuters added to [...]

Apple isn’t the only tech giant with a large pile of cash sitting around. Samsung’s cash in reserve totals $28.5 billion after debt, AllThingsD reports. Having grabbed a big chunk of the profitable smartphone business from Apple Inc. and others, Samsung Electronics Co. now faces a new, enviable Apple-like challenge: a mammoth pile of unspent, [...]

Millennial Media celebrated it’s “Independence Day” on Wall Street yesterday as the company reported earnings for the first quarter of 2013. What’s more, the mobile ad giant declared during its earnings call that Millennial Media will remain independent for the foreseeable future. That is, the public company is not for sale. Millennial Media Chief Executive [...]

According to a new report from Intuit, some fifty percent of American small businesses close within their first year of operation. It’s a scary statistic. But there’s no shortage of things a small business owner can do – from savvy marketing to smart hiring – that can do wonders to ensure the longevity of a [...]

According to an eye opening new report from DDM this week, the world’s largest video platform may now call China home. Baidu, a search company based inside of the world’s most populous nation, is building its video streaming services and upping its competition with Youku-Tudou, the leader in China’s video market. The purchase of PPS.tv [...]

You can add the title of hairdresser to the rapidly expanding list of professionals adopting mobile payments technology at a fast clip – pun intended. This reality was recently explored in-depth on the PayAnywhere blog. “The hair-care profession consists of various different working arrangements,” reads the post from PayAnywhere, a leading provider of mobile payments [...]

A well-known and highly respected analyst for Morgan Stanley says Apple will likely build more than one new iPhone model this summer. This latest chatter corroborates with speculation from supply chain sources and other knowledgeable industry sources who claim that multiple iPhone models are in the works. On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty shared some [...]

A new survey conducted by Constant Contact indicates that mobile technology has become the new point-of-sale (POS) solution of choice for a growing number of small businesses. Seventy-one percent of small businesses using mobile technology now accept mobile payments and 52 percent utilize a mobile-/tablet-based point-of-sale system, the report finds. “In busy shops and department [...]