According to the latest figures from comScore, Google’s Android smartphone OS increased its lead over the competition in the three months ending in April. A separate report from Millennial Media shows a significant boost in the number of consumers who are accessing retail content through their mobile…

Sometimes we hear about craziness in an industry, and it’s almost too complex to cover. The details make you scratch your head and want to keep asking questions. And, when you finally think you understand what is going on, you realize that you…

Last week when writing about the two headed beasts of fraud and compliance, we felt that people could identify with fraud prevention more because if not kept in check it could wreck an entire business. Compliance on the other hand was like a speed…

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When we think about the value of performance-based companies, as we did in our other piece this week, we think about why the outside world doesn’t value us in the same light. I suspect, though, that the vast majority of network owners really…

While fathers won’t receive as many gifts for Father’s Day as mothers did for Mother’s Day this year, spending for Father’s Day is expected to significantly rise in 2011, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) and BIGresearch. The annual survey reports that nearly a quarter of Father’s Day…

According to a survey from Prosper Mobile Insights, nearly 53 percent of smartphone owners said they use their smartphones for all the functions and that “it’s my life.” Nearly a third said they use their smartphone’s basic functions and some apps. More than half of respondents also said they prefer…

A study from Yahoo and Universal McCann (UM) looked at the new dynamics in the path to purchase so marketers can better utilize digital media to engage shoppers. “The Long and Winding Road: Gamesmanship of Shopping” found that the growing array of online tools available to consumers have made them…

A new study from Shop.org, comScore and Social Shopping Labs looked at how shoppers interact with retailers through social networks and found that retailers can use social media not only to build their brands, but to make money as well. The study also found that while a majority of consumers have…

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