The insiders’ guide to mobile app promotion: top tips for marketing your app from industry experts 21 Aug 2013 | 11:42 am

The unpalatable truth is that app stores are dominated by apps from a handful of developers (Canalys, Distimo) with big marketing budgets, while the vast majority of apps disappear straight into obscu...

28 percent of the top 100 apps still don’t have a privacy policy 20 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm

Research from the mobile association MEF highlights the need for app publishers to take user privacy more seriously to improve consumer trust in apps. Analysis of the top 100 free mobile apps availabl...

Very useful glossary of all things mobile 19 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm

Mobext, the international mobile agency, has just launched The Mobile Index, an educational online glossary of portable tech. There is a brief commentary for each term – opinionated at times (but the...

Introduction to China’s booming mobile money market – Q&A with Charmaine Oak, Shift Thought 8 Aug 2013 | 02:55 pm

This introduction to the Chinese mobile money business is brought to you by Charmaine Oak, practice lead digital money for analyst/consultancy Shift Thought. Shift Thought recently published Digital M...

New damning report into Apple factories: should consumers and business customers care? Should mobile marketers? 31 Jul 2013 | 08:04 pm

China Labor Watch (CLW), a US-based charity, has released a highly critical report, with video footage (see below), into conditions in Pegatron Group’s factories that produce Apple products, including...

mobiThinking guide to mobile agencies: XS2 23 Jul 2013 | 01:05 am

• Next agency profile: Phonevalley • All profiled agencies: Guide home XS2: in brief Type of agency: full service. Founded: XS2 was founded in 2008 by Jan Willem Vaartjes & Sander Munsterman. Acquis...

Engaging video on mobile in China, packed with stats, from Group M 19 Jul 2013 | 06:55 pm

This excellent video was created for Group M, the parent of Maxus, MEC, MediaCom, Mindshare and Xaxis, by Seen Vision, using data from the Group M Interaction survey (July 2013) and various third-part...

The rise of mobile Web, mobile for good and other trends from Cannes Mobile Lions 2013 10 Jul 2013 | 04:31 pm

Scrutiny of the mobile winners at Cannes 2013, both the Mobile Lions and across the other Lions categories, reveals some encouraging trends. The first is the number of winners that use mobile Web in c...

Benchmark your device detection strategy 9 Jul 2013 | 05:33 pm

Global mobile statistics 2013 Home: all the latest stats on mobile Web, apps, marketing, advertising, subscribers, and trends... 28 Jun 2013 | 08:45 pm

The mobiThinking compendium of mobile statistics and research The Compendium of global mobile stats received 975,298 pageviews in 2012, check out mobiThinking’s other compelling reads of last year: M...