ShopSavvy has seen an increase in its mobile application downloads with 1.9 million installments in April, bringing the company’s totally application downloads to 17.9 million.

ShopSavvy claims that its mobile shopping assistant application has surpassed 16 million installations and 8 million active users across multiple smartphone platforms.

ShopSavvy has partnered with Groupon to target its 10 million-plus users with specific offers based on their location and shopping preferences.

ShopSavvy Inc. has launched a new version of its Android shopping application featuring crowd-sourced bargains and streaming deals.

ShopSavvy has updated its application for iPhone 4, letting holiday shoppers add their own ratings and reviews in a Wikipedia-style crowdsourcing environment.

Gold’s Gym, Ford and the Washington Metro are using “Scan with ShopSavvy” to increase awareness and trial of QR codes to inform consumers about their products and services.

As soon as Apple announced its newest creation, the iPad, app developers such as NearbyNow and Big in Japan announced plans to extend their products to the platform.

Big in Japan, developer of commerce app ShopSavvy, launched a video contest inviting consumers to share their on-the-go shopping experiences for a chance to win Google’s Nexus One or Apple’s iPad.

Big in Japan Inc., the developers of ShopSavvy, are adding augmented reality and QR code support to the application in an effort to expand consumer use of 2D bar codes.

While actual mobile payments are still nascent, more consumers shopped on Black Friday using their mobile phone than ever before.