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

Digby's solution enables brands to create "geo-fences" around their stores and other points of interest, and embedded these into an app.  It then uses its technology to measure app engagement and events such as entries and exits to a locality, barcode/QR scans, and "other key shopping-oriented events," to assess how consumers…

Today WorldMate published its key usage statistics for 2011. "We have experienced phenomenal growth," comments WorldMate's CEO, Jean Tripier. "Our users flew nearly 12 billion miles in 2011 and we have quadrupled the number of itineraries under our management. This effectively means that WorldMate is the largest mobile itinerary management platform today. Looking ahead to 2012 we expect our growth rate to accelerate as we have strong partners, a highly scalable platform, and many large…

BOSTON - November 30, 2011 - Nexage, the leading provider of market liquidity in mobile advertising, today announces that Backflip Studios has selected Nexage to monetize free versions of their mobile games on Apple® iPhone® and iPad®.

Mobile gaming, which drove 3.6 billion downloads in 2010, is expected to double by 2015. With 150 million game installations and growing, Backflip Studios and their popular titles such as Paper Toss, Ninjump, Solitaire and Strike Knight help fuel this remarkable…

One of the current trends in computing is the emergence of DevOps - a set of approaches that combines elements of software development and IT operations. This means that software engineers are becoming increasingly involved in the nitty-gritty of building and maintaining infrastructure while system administrators are playing a more direct role in developing apps.

While there are plenty of IT professionals who possess both the skills and passion for working in DevOps, this may not apply to…

Padopolis, the company behind the Catalog Spree iPad app, which packs more than 100 catalogs, has raised $6.1 million in capital ahead of the busiest shopping days of the year.

The capital represents the company's first round, led by Comcast Ventures. Participants in the company's seed round, totaling $1.3 million, also chipped in, including BlackBerry Partners Fund and El Dorado Ventures.

Padopolis' co-founder and CEO, Joaquín Ruiz, said the latest version of the application will come out…

It's catalog season, the time of year when our mailboxes sag with accumulated paper and retailers nationwide cross their fingers. But even though print continues to dominate the world of presentation, the digital revolution promises to transform the shopping experience.

More than 20 billion catalogs were mailed in the U.S. last year, about a quarter of which were devoted to fashion. Apparel brands mail more catalogs than any other class of retailer - usually between 12 and 24 catalogs each…

Vodafone India, one of India's leading telecommunications services providers, today announced the launch of the new Vodafone Mobile Application Store. Powered by Appia, the new Mobile Application Store provides Vodafone India's over 145 million subscribers with a comprehensive and vast selection of over 10,000 free and paid applications for virtually any handset across major mobile operating systems including Android, Java, Symbian and Blackberry.

"We are excited to partner with Appia to offer…

IGN takes a look at the craziest game we've seen in a while. The famous shark Jaws is getting his revenge on every hang glider and jetpack joyrider in sight on the Apple iPad.

TORONTO - October 3, 2011 - BlackBerry Partners Fund™ today announced the winners of the "Adobe Flash/AIR" competition in the fourth annual BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge. Winners of the best Adobe® AIR® app built with Adobe® Flash® technology for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet were selected on a regional basis. Apps were judged based on quality and use of development best practices, level of visual appeal, user experience, and creativity and innovation.

North America:

• Grand…