Did you miss Mobile Marketer’s Mobile FirstLook: Strategy 2012 conference on Jan. 19? Not to worry, here are some pictures from the event.

Eighty-four percent of mobile users with downloaded shopping applications are predicted to use them to save money this holiday season, according to a new Pricegrabber study.

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.

With budgets in the hundreds of thousands and now in the millions, mobile advertising is proving to be the fastest-growing ad vehicle across all channels – that much is obvious in our first State of Mobile Advertising 2011 Classic Guide.

Department store chain Nordstrom is continuing its slow-yet-steady emergence into mobile with the commencement of mobile check-out in its retail locations.

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.

The challenge for marketers today is that most brands’ mobile experience is not quite knowledgeable and talented enough to serve the CCEO, or the Consumer Chief Everything Officer.

Mobile Commerce Daily will not publish on Monday, Jan. 17, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will resume publication on Tuesday, Jan. 18.

As mobile and social media establish themselves, they join email in today’s multichannel marketing world. Now an alternative view is emerging: cross-channel marketing.