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Mobile Marketing Watch  7 hours ago:

Mobile Host Summit for Hospitality and Retail Kicks Off Thursday -

What happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas. But this week, as the Mobile Host Summit for Hospitality and Retail gets underway in Sin City, there’s a good chance that plenty of announcements, insight, and news will leave Las Vegas and better educate marketers and industry professionals all over the world.
Mobile Marketing Watch  8 hours ago:

Tabbedout Turns to Google Wallet for New Mobile Payment Effort -

Tabbedout has a mighty partner for its new mobile payments effort. On Monday, Tabbedout confirmed its new partnership with Google to bring users Google Wallet as a payment source in the Tabbedout app for Android.
Mobile Marketing Watch  8 hours ago:

Social Media is The Key to Outselling Competitors -

Jim Keenan, a social sales specialist, observes in the The Rise of Social Salespeople that social media use is key to selling, increasing profits, and besting the competition in today’s market.
Mobile Marketing Watch  10 hours ago:

Yahoo Buying Tumblr for $1B, But Can They Make Money? -

Yahoo’s board agreed on Sunday to buy the massively popular blogger site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.
Mobile Marketing Watch  12 hours ago:

Sprint Gobbles Up Neighbors Handmark and OneLouder -

Sprint has just confirmed its acquisition of app developer Handmark and its social and mobile advertising subsidiary OneLouder.
Mobile Marketing Watch  14 hours ago:

Mogreet Acquired by pavia for Innovative Mobile Payments and Targeting Platform -

Let’s just call it “Merger Monday.” From Yahoo’s billion dollar deal to acquire Tumblr, to Seamless North America’s merger with GrubHub, it’s been a day of big deals in mobile and social.
Mobile Marketing Watch  14 hours ago:

GrubHub Merges with Seamless for Groundbreaking New Effort -

On Monday, Seamless North America and GrubHub Inc. announced the signing of a definitive agreement that will merge two of the nation’s premier services for ordering takeout.
Mobile Marketing Watch  14 hours ago:

Mobile Payments Leader Expands ‘Aggressive Retail Channel Rollout’ -

Aggressive is, indeed, an appropriate word to describe how one emerging power in the mobile payments space is expanding into retail.
Mobile Marketing Watch  15 hours ago:

Billion Dollar Deal is on with Yahoo, Tumblr -

The rumor mill got it right. Late Sunday, soft confirmations began to emerge that Yahoo’s board had just approved the purchase of blogging site Tumblr for $1.
Mobile Marketing Watch  3 days ago:

Infographic: Is Your CMO Prepared for the Challenges Ahead? -

Let’s face it. Today’s marketing tools, tactics, and technologies are wholly unfamiliar to marketing professionals of a bygone era.