RingGo, which is used for around three-quarters of all the UK’s pay-by-phone parking, has acquired US-based iControl Mobile. It’ll trade under the iControl name for a short while before moving to the RingGo brand.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast has a strong retail flavour. There's talk of subsidised iPads arriving in the UK on Orange and T-Mobile, along with joint-branded shops from the two brands. We hear about the appearance of a stand-along Tesco Phone Shop in Bristol, we discover that a fifth of UK consumers will be doing some form of mobile Christmas shopping this year and we contemplate Acer's new app store.
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Online payment company PayPal saw an annual increase of approximately 310% in mobile shopping on Black Friday, the busy retail day that follows Thanksgiving Day in the US.
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Juniper Research has calculated that revenue from in-game purchases by mobile phone users will overtake the pay-per-download pricing model for mobile games by 2013. Total end-user revenue is expected to exceed $11 billion (£7 billion) per year by 2015, nearly double the $6 billion figure from 2009.
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Research from social and search agency Tamar suggests that 19% of UK consumers will use mobile devices to shop at Christmas this year.
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