Children’s goods retailer Magic Beans is letting customers at its retail locations skip long lines and self-checkout via their mobile phones.

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.

The integration of mobile technologies into food retailers’ in-store experiences can have an impact on purchase intent, according to a Latitude study.

British Airways has jumped on the mobile bar code bandwagon in an effort to improve its customer service efforts.

Dylan’s Candy Bar is engaging its customers with an in-store scavenger hunt using mobile image recognition technology to index email addresses and award coupons.

HSBC, official banking partner of Wimbledon, has launched a campaign targeting tennis fans in New York with print ads featuring mobile QR codes.

NEW YORK – A Target exec talked about how and why the retail giant uses mobile bar codes in all of its 1,740 stores in the U.S., during his presentation at the MMF.

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises’ Wow Bao restaurant chain is enhancing its mobile marketing initiatives by offering mobile coupons and mobile comp cards.

NeoMedia Technologies Inc. and Renu Mobile have reached an agreement to include NeoMedia’s 2D bar codes as part of Renu Mobile’s end-to-end mobile campaign management services.