Shopping application Shopsavvy is partnering with mobile deal platform Spotzot to give consumers localized and targeted deals.

ShopSavvy has seen an increase in its mobile application downloads with 1.9 million installments in April, bringing the company’s totally application downloads to 17.9 million.

ShopSavvy claims that its mobile shopping assistant application has surpassed 16 million installations and 8 million active users across multiple smartphone platforms.

Top 10 Produce LLC has launched Locale, a strawberry brand that is traceable to the independent farm that grew the produce by scanning on-package bar codes using mobile devices.

ShopSavvy has partnered with Groupon to target its 10 million-plus users with specific offers based on their location and shopping preferences.

ShopSavvy Inc. has launched a new version of its Android shopping application featuring crowd-sourced bargains and streaming deals.

The industry has established that 2010 was the year that mobile commerce really took off and applications were a big part of that.

ShopSavvy has updated its application for iPhone 4, letting holiday shoppers add their own ratings and reviews in a Wikipedia-style crowdsourcing environment.

Gold’s Gym, Ford and the Washington Metro are using “Scan with ShopSavvy” to increase awareness and trial of QR codes to inform consumers about their products and services.

MultipleStreams, a worldwide dealer of used books, CDs and DVDs, has released version 2.0 of its YouSell application for iPhone, incorporating bar code scanning.