Mobile Commerce Daily is inviting opinion pieces on mobile commerce issues that affect retailers and marketers as they encourage shopping and transacting via mobile.

Happy New Year! Mobile Commerce Daily will not publish on Jan. 2 to give its staff time to recover from New Year’s revelry. Talk to you in 2012!

Sony Pictures is letting consumers check showtimes and buy movie tickets for its new “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” film.

Giselle Tsirulnik has been promoted to deputy managing editor on Mobile Marketer and Mobile Commerce Daily, the two leading publications covering mobile marketing and mobile commerce, respectively.

Shopping application shopkick is partnering with Citi Ventures to drive in-store shopping at small businesses.

With the exponential growth of feature and smartphones, mobile payments have taken off and are predicted to grow 40 percent and reach $2.5 billion globally by 2015, according to Juniper Research.

Paypal has updated its mobile 2011 projection to $3 billion – marking the third time it has had to change its mobile predictions for this year.

Mobile Commerce Daily has promoted Rimma Kats to staff reporter on the world’s leading publication covering mobile commerce and retail.

The mobile sites of OpenTable and Ghirardelli came out on top in terms of performance this Valentine’s Day, according to research from Keynote Systems Inc.

This year marks a turning point in mobile commerce as more retailers realize that a transaction-ready and shopper-friendly mobile store is no longer an option but increasingly a necessity. Mobile commerce’s good days are about to begin.