After tinkering with its mobile remittance service for a couple years, start-up m-via is launching the service under the brand name Boom, with the promise of making transferring money between unbanked users cheap and easy. The service, which is debuting at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Global Disapora Forum today, aims to undercut existing...
Mobile analytics firm Zokem just published a new study comparing mobile application usage on smartphones and tablet computers to the time spent Web browsing. The results are not surprising – application use is far more popular than using the Web browser on these devices, the firm found. Also of interest, especially to mobile application...
Screenreach, the innovative UK startup helping businesses deliver real-time interactive experiences to their customers, has today announced the launch of its ScreachML language and public website, allowing creatives and developers to create their own interactions using the Screach service. Fresh from its partnership with Reach Media Group (RMG), which saw the Screach service rolled out in...
Software-as-a-service startup New Relic has added a new, and free, capability to its application-performance management product that lets customers monitor their users’ experiences in real time. The new feature measures page-load time, network performance and rendering time, as well as users’ browsers, operating systems and geographic locations — all as the transaction is going...
Netflix video streaming is now the single largest source of peak downstream Interent traffic i the U.S., according to a new report by Sandvine. The streaming video service now accounts for 29.7 percent of peak downstream traffic, up from 21 percent last fall. That puts Netflix above HTTP websites (18 percent), BitTorrent (11 percent),...
Those of you that have been waiting for RIM to bring its BlackBerry PlayBook to UK shores will have little less than a month to wait after both Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy, official stockists of the device, announced both the launch date and pricing of the enterprise-ready device. The retailers have put live their...
Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy Publicis Groupe, one of the “big five” ad agency conglomerates, which is based in Paris, is acquiring New Jersey-based Rosetta Marketing Group for $575 million in cash, plus an earnout for the top executives of the company. Rosetta is specialized in online and digital marketing, with projected revenues of...
Web design is a big industry. Hundreds of millions are made by solo designers and agencies delivering tailored services to their clients and theme foundries selling turn-key solutions for platforms like WordPress. As with any growing industry, where there are people smelling the money, there are people looking for a way in. This article...
Publicis Groupe, the French advertising colossus, announced today that it will acquire Princeton-based interactive marketing agency Rosetta for $525 million in cash, plus later milestone payments. As one of the “big four” advertising holding companies, Publicis competes with Interpublic, Omnicom, and WPP, which each generated at least $6 billion in revenue in 2010 and...
Reading the news in recent weeks, it’s becoming increasingly clear that there are the early signs of a new war brewing in the mobile computing space. And it’s a war that promises to be the most fascinating one yet. It doesn’t involve Microsoft or Nokia or RIM or HP or Palm. It doesn’t even...