Mobile Minutes: Retailers' mobile payments; Facebook's new study; Pinterest's app developers; Chinese smartphone market
Apple Pay is creaming Walmart in the mobile payment wars
Walmart and a host of other retailers are trying to make inroads in the mobile
payments marketplace. And they're failing.
Read more on Time
Facebook reveals the reason why you may agree with most
of your newsfeed
Facebook's new study looked at millions of its most political users to
determine whether the site is becoming an echo chamber where users only see
information from like-minded friends.
Read more on ABC News
Pinterest opens door to app developers, expects new
recipe, wedding, travel tools
Last month, the visual bookmarking site officially opened its application
program interface (API) to select marketers and advertisers. As of this week,
developers can also apply to build apps for pinners for the first time.
Read more on Forbes
Chinese smartphone market, world's largest, shrinks in
first-quarter: study
China's smartphone market has reached saturation, according to a new study by
industry analyst IDC that carries potentially significant implications for the
global handset industry led by giants like Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co
Ltd.
Read more on Reuters