We love showrooming: Google adds new globally available Product Listing Ad to mobile

Google's ramping up mobile monetization today with a new sponsored search result ad type, a product listing ad. It also reduces the mobile search presence of the showroomer's biggest ally: Amazon.com.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: SimCity plagued by server issues, Ubisoft does not condone whaling

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Apple and Amazon want to let you resell your digital stuff (if that even makes sense)

Apple and Amazon are looking into ways to complicate the already-complicated relationship between you and your digital property.

Amazon stops selling digital copies of SimCity as EA shuts off in-game features (update)

EA turned off leaderboards, achievements, and the game's fastest speed setting.

Google wants to solve the same-day shipping problem with ‘Google Shopping Express’

Google wants to stick it to Amazon with "Google Shipping Express", its same-day shipping service.

Guitar Hero creator’s Green Throttle Arena turns Android gaming into a hardcore experience (exclusive video)

After a year of planning, Green Throttle Games is releasing its Arena gaming system on the Amazon Kindle Fire, and that's cause enough for Microsoft and Sony to start worrying.

We will download 70 billion mobile apps in 2013 (50% Android, 41% iOS)

In 2013, we'll download ten apps for every single woman, man, and child on planet Earth.

Meh: Amazon Prime gets more quasi-entertaining TV shows from HGTV, Food Network, & Travel Channel

Amazon Prime, the complimentary streaming video service from online retail giant Amazon, announced a new licensing deal today with Scripps Network that will bring a slew of cable TV show episodes to its library of content.

China’s $265 billion e-commerce world (infographic)

Alibaba predicts that 2013 will be the year that Chinese e-commerce surpasses U.S e-commerce, with $265 billion in sales compared to a projected $230 billion for America, and that total Chinese online sales will reach $445 billion in 2015.

Amazon Cloud Player now available for iPad, but Kindle is erasing your entire book library

Amazon's assault on Apple's iTunes empire continues today as the Seattle company released its Cloud Player app for iPad and iPad Mini.

2012 a very good year for casual game developer Wooga: It’s finally profitable

Wooga currently has 50 million active monthly users across its mobile and web games.

IMDb’s iOS app now links to Amazon Prime Instant Video

One giant asset that Amazon has over other rival streaming video services is IMBD, which the company purchased way back in 2008. And now, it's actually using it to make its Prime Instant Video service more attractive.

Inkling Habitat brings sleek digital book creation to the cloud. Will it dent Amazon?

Inkling's CEO thinks he has the solution to Amazon's "glorified $10 text files."

Amazon, Apple, and yes, Victoria’s Secret dominate the mobile shopping satisfaction ratings

Mick Jagger can't get no satisfaction, but apparently a lot of 14-year-old boys can. So too, fortunately, can Apple, Amazon, QVC, and NewEgg clients.

Amazon Prime to get CBS’s new Stephen King show while it airs on TV

In its latest effort to differentiate its streaming video service from competitors, Amazon's Prime Instant Video service will be getting a hot new TV show while it currently airs on television, the company announced today.