Posts Tagged ‘feature phone

Facebook unveiled a new mobile application yesterday called Facebook for Every Phone, designed to bring the social platform to every corner of the globe. The new mobile app has been designed to work with 2,500 feature phones across cellular carriers worldwide which could bring Facebook to users in the developing world that do not have [...]

Today, eBay announced that it has purchased mobile payments company Zong for $240 million, to integrate into PayPal. By buying Zong, eBay is attempting to position PayPal to be a leader in mobile payments for the years to come. Mobile payments are expected to be a $670 billion industry by 2015 according to report from [...]

   For the past few years, we’ve heard pundits declaring each year as “year of the mobile Web”; each year trying to sound more convincing than the previous. Whether 2011 will be the real “year of the mobile” remains to be seen, but what is indisputable is the fact that the mobile usage of the [...]

Half of consumers are using their phones to help make shopping decisions, suggesting that old-style feature phones have a place in the market, according to a new survey. The report, by Arc Worldwide, based on a survey of 1,800 U.S. mobile phone users and a smaller qualitative study with 30 mobile shoppers, shows 50% of [...]

Facebook has acquired Israeli startup Snaptu, a creator of simple mobile applications for feature phones, for an estimated $70 million. Snaptu’s technology is designed to bring web service such as Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn to almost any phone through a series of applications it has designed. The company’s Java-based apps replicate many of the features [...]


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