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Following the Canadian mobile launch of Player Unknown's Battlegrounds, the game finally landed today in the American Google Play Store.

It's the biggest mobile launch of the year so far: the Samsung S9 (and Samsung S9 Plus), the phones that are going to take on whatever Apple and Google have planned for this year, as well as the usual competition from the likes of LG, HTC, Sony, OnePlus, Huawei and more.

We later go through the smartphone releases of the week, which include details on the LG Nitro HD and the T - Mobile launch of the White Samsung Galaxy S II.

But it's impossible to deny that Dawn of Titans is one of the blockbuster mobile launches of the year - a considerable feat given Nintendo's entrance in the market - and it'll be very interesting to see how the game performs for Zynga and NaturalMotion.

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Facebook rolled out an expansion of its Instant Articles project on Tuesday — that's the mobile - focused offering it launched earlier this year, which offers faster - loading pages to media companies who agree to publish directly to the social network.

Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

«Customers have built solutions ranging from a recruiting app for an internal team to a mobile app for banking employees that connects to their [customer - relationship management] data,» Bill Staples, Microsoft's corporate vice president of app platform, said in a statement announcing the launch.

In October of 2014, the duo launched a contest to see if horror fans would enjoy watching and making abridged, mobile horror content.

The iPad, a device that arguably launched the tablet market, built on the lessons of the failed Newton personal assistant family of devices, and presaged many of the present - day features of the mobile iOS platform.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

CIBC (TSX: CM) and Telus (TSX: T) announced on Tuesday the launch of a mobile payment app for certain models of smartphones that run on the Telus network for credit card purchases such as gas or groceries, to a limit of $ 50.

Domestically, the company has also launched mobile boarding passes which further facilitates the process of flying by eliminating paper printouts and waiting in long check - in lines at the airport.

We revised our estimate for volume this year down further primarily because of later - than - expected launches of mobile wallets from major tech players.

With no plans to accept Apple Pay, and no set launch date for MCX, it appears Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing out on a major shift in customer behavior: Forrester Research has forecast that mobile payments by U.S. consumers will go from $ 52 billion last year to $ 142 billion by the end of 2019.

The French government also launched its mobile phone app warning of a «terrorist» attack.

Our previous assumption was that the launch of the CurrentC mobile wallet by MCX — which focuses on offers as a value proposition to consumers — would drive volume in 2015, but since the launch of the app has been delayed again and again, we no longer expect this to happen in the next year.

Apple has already launched products that stray into the domain of mobile phone network and wireless service providers.

Facebook users can access this via a camera icon that will launch a similar kind of view within the social network's mobile app, or by swiping left while looking at their news feed.

The third quarter included the impact of FarmVille: Tropics Escape, as well as the long - delayed mobile racing game CSR 2, which launched at the end of the second quarter.

Because of the volume of payments MCX members command and the original launch timelines, we had previously thought that CurrentC would drive significant mobile payments volume this year, even if adoption among consumers was lackluster.

Let's be real: Every month, it feels as if a new dating app launches on the promise that it is the «non-creepy» (or, at the very least, «less creepy») version of Tinder, the ubiquitous photo - based mobile - matchmaking service that's taken the online dating world by storm.

-- Liz Wessel, co-founder and CEO of WayUp, a job site and mobile app for college students and recent graduates used by millions of people since its launch in 2014

With no current plans to accept Apple Pay (though down the line it, and other mobile wallets, could well be a payment option within Walmart Pay), and no set launch date for MCX (never mind that as the product of consortium, that mobile app will not be set up to meet Walmart's specific needs), Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing out on a major shift in customer behavior.

Google generated a lot of hype when it launched the Nexus One mobile device in mid-January because the Mountain View, Calif. - based company broke with convention and started selling its smartphone directly to consumers without a cellphone company contract.

We think that with the launch of Apple Pay and other mobile wallets from tech giants, mobile in - store payments will follow a similar trajectory.

This year her haul has likely been even larger, thanks to beefed - up ad campaigns from some of her sponsors, the growth of her candy company Sugarpova, and the launch of her own mobile app.

Three and a half years ago, Boxed was launched with only 200 items in Chieh Huang's garage, as a mobile version of a warehouse club

That's in addition to a 500,000 - square - foot warehouse that opened in the fall in Louisville, Ky.; the launch of a mobile site; and the simultaneous debut of the biennial Super Nasty print magazine and the brand's first in - house collection, Weird Science, featuring color palettes inspired by computer cables and prints based on data - corruption visuals.

Unless you work in the media, or have a fascination with things like the mechanics of Javascript calls in publishing software, you might have missed the launch of a Google project known as Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP.

Mobile, too: JackThreads» iOS and Android shopping apps, released in January 2012, have surpassed 2 million downloads; an iPad app that launched in May 2013 was up to 300,000 downloads by June and driving 5 percent of revenue within two weeks.

After two years of trial and error and the help of Jason Squire, creator of Canada's first 4G network, Misek launched what many outlets regard as the Shazam for mobile payments.

When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.

Launched by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the new video application for your mobile phone is positioned to rival six - second video app Vine and Instagram's new video capacity, which allows users to record up to 15 seconds of video at a time.

Is Scotiabank preparing to launch a mobile wallet in partnership with Digicel in some of the 29 other Caribbean and Latin American countries in which it does business?

In June, Smith announced a bold expansion plan that will see Vice launch new TV, mobile and digital services in 50 countries, including markets in Africa, the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia, many of which will be run as joint ventures with established media players.

As another point of reference, the Starbucks app — the most successful mobile payments app in the US — currently accounts for about 1 in every 15 dollars spent in US - company operated stores three years after launch.

* [In a followup email asking about the number of mobile games planned by March 2017, Miyamoto added: «We've consistently stated a plan to launch approximately five mobile apps by the end of this fiscal year, including Miitomo.

Those included started to sell Apple Watches in the fall, the launch of a mobile app, the use of all of its stores to fill e-commerce orders, and a bigger push in athletic and wellness gear.

He helped the company launch iPhone in 2007 and was in charge of all developer related PR activities, including opening up iPhone to mobile app developers in 2008.

When PayPal launched its newest mobile payment platform, it joined a wide selection of existing services.

Google launched its twist on Facebook's Instant Articles feature today — an open standard for delivering mobile web pages faster for publishers of all kinds, which the company is calling «Accelerated Mobile Pages» omobile web pages faster for publishers of all kinds, which the company is calling «Accelerated Mobile Pages» oMobile Pages» or AMP.

The new Secure Work Space feature will be managed through BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) 10, a new back - end system launched at the start of this year that allows BlackBerry's clients to control mobile devices on their internal networks.

Back in the beginning of the year, serial entrepreneur and startup investor Jason Calacanis launched Inside.com, which he called «a mobile - first news reader that's full of external links and story summaries,» with topics ranging from Google to Wonder Woman.

Facebook Inc. reported a better - than - expected 40.5 percent jump in quarterly revenue helped by the launch of new advertisement services and updates to its mobile app, which drove more ad sales.

Everything from the roll - out of its Walmart Pay mobile app, to expanding its free grocery pickup service for orders placed on line to launching an Amazon Prime - like subscription service.

The initiative takes ongoing tests Macy's has been conducting at its «petri dish» of a store in Woodbridge, N.J. — such as mobile checkout in store and new lighting to make shopping more inviting to 50 stores this year — as a launching pad for a series of initiatives it can roll out to a much greater number of stores in 2019.

In January, the company launched its mobile app and says it already accounts for 15 % of sales.

One of the most interesting of this crop is Poutsch, which launched its mobile app two months ago.

At Barclays, he treated the bank's tech department like a small startup within the larger organization, and led the launch of a slew of mobile banking apps.

Wall Street was mighty disappointed when the new Apple iPhone launch did not include news of a deal with China Mobile, the world's largest wireless carrier, but it might be on the way, according to some China Mobile marketing documents leaked this past week.