America Movil Launches iApps Application Stores Powered by Appia to Over 240 Million Subscribers in 18 Countries

As the world increasingly goes mobile, it’s prompting a boom in mobile advertising, which is heating up and is poised for a huge year in 2012. The winners include companies such as Nexage, a real-time bidding exchange provider which told me that it hit 100 billion ads requested today through its platform.

Not to be outdone by its southern neighbor, Canada has been hard at work on its own fleet of tech startup accelerators. Back in June, Montreal became the home to FounderFuel, Vancouver has GrowLab, and Toronto had Extreme University. Well, let's clarify that: Back in November, Extreme Venture Partners announced the launch of a new-and-improved version of its accelerator program, ExtremeU.

Mobile commerce platform company Digby announced Digby Localpoint, which it said brings “location-based mobile marketing, analytics and commerce to branded rich apps.”