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Mobile commerce in the United States is expected to grow 91 percent to $6.1 billion compared to the value of the market throughout 2010. Read Original Content
Facebook is acquiring the team behind social networking service Gowalla as it continues to build out its location-based services and enter the mobile commerce market. Read Original Content
According to WSL/Strategic Retail shopping via smartphones is growing significantly. Currently half of smartphone owners are making purchases through their devices and mobile retail apps are one of the most popular apps being downloaded. Read Original Content
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Poland will soon be able to use NFC-enabled smartphones to pay for goods and services. Total value of transactions made via mobile phones in Central and Eastern Europe amounted to around €290 million in 2010. That is expected to grow to €22.7 billion by 2017, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content
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China Mobile and China Unicom are the latest companies to support the NFC technology in smartphones that allows users to make purchases without using their wallets. This is expected to help drive mobile payments as China has 940 million mobile users. Read Original Content
Chitika Insight has conducted a study on holiday shopping through mobile devices and has found that the market has experienced a 25 percent increase in mobile shopping. Read Original Content
Amazon.com wants to make it easy for children and their parents to create holiday wish lists that can be shared with a new app for Kindle Fire and iPad. The free Amazon Santa app gives kids and parents access to an online catalog of over 500,000 toys, games and digital media for children. Read Original Content
While Sears, Amazon and Dell had the highest-ranking mobile sites in terms of performance on Cyber Monday, more than 40 percent of shoppers still expressed frustration with their mobile shopping experience over the holiday weekend. Read Original Content
Ticketfly has partnered with Aloompa Aloompa, a smartphone applications provider, to create a practical mobile solution for accepting tickets at festivals and concerts. Read Original Content
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