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Top Mobile Applications Awards 2008 With consumers tightening their belts and hunkering down in the face of an imminent recession, the mobile industry finds itself at a crossroads. On the one hand, Read more...

Huntington National Bank, which provides retail and commercial financial products and services across over 600 regional banking offices spanning seven states, announced the launch of its free Read more...

Bank of America, the largest U.S. commercial bank by both deposits and market capitalization, announced it now boasts more than 1 million unique active mobile banking customers, two thirds of them Read more...

Korean mobile operator SK Telecom announced a joint venture with international financial conglomerate Citigroup to sell mobile banking and payment solutions in the North American and Asian markets. Read more...

Mobile payment solutions provider Obopay announced its signature wireless service will launch via Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphones later this month. The application promises BlackBerry Read more...

Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm-owned mobile banking and payments enabler Firethorn Holdings announced that customers of financial institutions including Wachovia, SunTrust, FirstBank, and BancorpSouth Read more...

By the end of 2007, Bank of America--the world's second largest banking corporation--counted more than 500,000 active mobile banking customers, despite introducing mobile services just six months Read more...

British carrier O2 announced the launch of O2 Wallet, a large-scale mobile payment pilot enabling participants to pay for purchases and access events via NFC (Near Field Communications) contactless Read more...

Hours after Qualcomm acquired Firethorn Holdings for $210 million, Sony announced it too Read more...

Developer giant Qualcomm announced it will acquire mobile banking enabler Firethorn Holdings for approximately $210 million in cash. The deal is expected to close within 30 days. According to Read more...