American Wagering subsidiary Leroy’s Sportsbook has launched a sports betting application for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry just in time for football season.

American Eagle Outfitters is taking advantage of various mobile channels to enhance its consumer engagement efforts, ultimately leading to increased sales.

The first annual Adobe Scene7 Mobile Commerce Survey details leading businesses’ strategies for leveraging the emerging mobile channel over the coming year.

CheckPoints, a mobile startup in the location-based retail category, closed a $1 million Series A financing round from the cofounders, brothers Mark and Todd DiPaola.

Movie ticket vendor Fandango’s commerce-enabled Android application has surpassed 1.5 million downloads since its launch at the beginning of the year.

Citigroup responded quickly to correct a security flaw in its mobile banking app for iPhone, and the problem seems to be an isolated incident, not an alarming trend.

Entertainment categories such as mobile gaming, music and social networking are dominating the applications space, according to skyrockit’s newest executive.

The mobile medium offers various channels that are ideal for collecting information about merchants’ and marketers’ target consumers, including applications.

Tribune Media Services is letting mobile application developers using the Placecast MatchAPI to integrate movie showtimes and theater locations into their offerings.

Retail giant IKEA has taken its 2010 catalog mobile with the launch of an augmented reality application for Apple’s iPhone.