Jason Ankeny
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Yankee GroupCTIALive: Show coverage
As always, the Fierce team will be out in force during this year's CTIA Wireless 2013 show in Las Vegas, May 21-23 at the Sands Convention Center. Phil Goldstein, Sue Marek and Mike Dano will be attending.Google I/O 2013: Complete coverage
Fierce will be covering this year's event to bring you all the news and events from the show. Check with us for the latest news.Why the next big app explosion will be in China
Is China going to become the app market to beat? FierceMobileContent takes a closer look at why the next big app explosion will be in China.Legal strategies for app developers
Though there may not be a hard figure on how many developers are faced with legal action from patent trolls, the issue has sparked considerable discussion among legislators and app industry advocates.
Editor's Corner
Why Walmart poses a major threat to the mobile payments hierarchy
By Jason Ankeny
It's been roughly nine months since more than a dozen leading U.S. retailers including Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Sears and 7-Eleven first banded together to create Merchant Customer Exchange, a nationwide mobile commerce network designed to support smartphone-enabled purchases, consumer offers and mobile marketing promotions. The MCX initiative remains a work in progress, but here's what we know.Editor's Corner
Could Yahoo's Tumblr acquisition be the next Instagram?
By Sandhya Raman
This week, Yahoo confirmed it would be acquiring visual micro-blogging platform Tumblr in a deal worth $1.1 billion, one of its largest acquisitions to date. The deal is already drawing comparisons to Facebook's $715 million acquisition of Instagram, and it is easy to see why.
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Report: Google mulls Waze acquisition, setting up bidding war with Facebook
Google is in talks to acquire crowdsourced location services firm Waze for more than $1 billion, setting the stage for a possible bidding war with Facebook, Bloomberg reports.
Pandora: Mobile ad revenues surge 101%, outpacing listener hour growth
Pandora Media reported first-quarter fiscal 2014 revenues of $125.5 million, a 55 percent year-over-year increase fueled by the continued growth of the streaming music service's mobile advertising efforts. Losses nevertheless widened to $28.6 million from $20.2 million during the year-ago period as content costs jumped 48 percent to $82.9 million.
Verizon Cloud content storage app expands from Android to iOS
Verizon Wireless is extending its Verizon Cloud secure storage application from Google's Android to Apple's iOS, concurrently announcing support for additional Android devices including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC Droid DNA.
Mailbox expands to iPad, Android in the pipeline
Mailbox, the buzzed-about messaging app acquired by Dropbox in March, is expanding native functionality from Apple's iPhone to its iPad tablet with the release of its latest update.
Amazon Appstore for Android opens worldwide as Kindle Fire sales go global
Amazon's Appstore for Android is now open for business in close to 200 additional nations across the globe, an expansion timed to coincide with the worldwide rollout of the digital commerce giant's Android-powered Kindle Fire HD tablet.
Facebook vows Home improvements, halts U.K. launch of HTC First
Facebook said it is retooling its much-maligned Home launcher for Google's Android, promising significant improvements directly inspired by consumer feedback.
From Our Sister Sites
Verizon kicked off a Memorial Day weekend viewing marathon for its FiOS On Demand platform today, hoping the free preview of content from HBO, Starz, Epix and other networks will drive sales of paid VOD movies.
ConteXtream announced that a Tier 1 U.S. wireless operator has deployed the vendor's software-defined networking (SDN) technology to virtualize almost half of its network. The Palo Alto, Calif., startup is not specifying which carrier adopted its product but said the company is using SDN to serve nearly 40 million customers.
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