mShopper lets you shop on your mobile phone
mShopper, a price comparison and shopping service for mobile phones, has just launched.
There are a few companies, ranging from giants like Amazon and Yahoo to start-ups like Frucall and mPoria, making moves in the mobile e-commerce market, but it’s early and a clear winner has yet to emerge.
mShopper has a destination site, but the key will be distribution, and according to Boulder, Colorado’s mShopper, it has already signed a handful of deals with mobile carriers,… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google invests in China/Tianya, gDrive, Pubmatic and more
Here’s the latest action (updated):
Google buys stake in China’s Tianya, launches two Chinese social sites: Google has invested in Tianya, a Chinese online community of twenty million registered users. A Google spokesperson confirmed the investment with VentureBeat, but didn’t say how much of the company it now owns. Reuters has more. The two companies also announced the joint launch of two services that compete directly against offerings from dominant Chinese search rival, Baidu.
One service, called… Continue Reading
Frucall, mobile shopping comparison search
Frucall, a Cupertino, Calif. company is offering a convenient way to check prices for all kinds of products from your cell phone while you’re shopping.
Today, in addition to letting you search prices with voice — by calling 1-888-Dofrucall — it also launches price search via your mobile WAP browser and texting (SMS).
We tried it out at Starbucks the other day, and it worked great. We found an Italian espresso machine on the shelf, typed in… Continue Reading