The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is rolling out a new mobile ticketing service, giving commuters a way to purchase and display rail tickets on their smartphones.

Movie theater chain Cinemark Holdings Inc. is extending its mobile ticketing strategy with a new mobile application for Android devices.

Mobile tickets sales helped drive significant growth for Fandango during the first quarter, with the company reporting a 127 percent year-over-year jump in ticket sales and its best-ever quarterly percentage of mobile.

Paramount Pictures is driving sales for its new “A Thousand Words” film through an interactive mobile advertising campaign that lets moviegoers buy tickets and learn more about the movie.

The number of mobile users expected to use a near field communications-enabled mobile phones as a metro rail or bus ticket is expected to grow from less than 1 percent today to 13 percent by 2016, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

Fandango claims that 50 percent of its movie fans are using its mobile ticketing after rolling out the program last year.

Online movie ticketing company Fandango is partnering with Regal Entertainment Group to roll out a mobile ticketing program in select markets across the United States to cut down on paper movie tickets.

Software provider Ticketsoft is letting customers buy tickets directly from their Android and iPhone devices.

NEW YORK – A Live Nation executive at ad:tech said that the company is continually looking at ways to drive revenue and ticket sales with new enhancements such as letting consumers order concessions via their mobile device.

EBay’s StubHub has teamed up with Sprint to let fans buy and sell tickets to college and pro football games via their mobile devices.