The free StubHub app for iPhone and Android was updated this week to include the ability to download tickets directly to your device. This feature, known as mobile ticketing, takes StubHub from just a service for buying and selling tickets and transforms it into a tool you can show at the gate instead of a paper ticket. With the update, you can find tickets for sporting… Read more »

Swedish superstore Ikea has released a digital version of its popular catalog for Android devices. That’s the good news. I know people who treat the catalog like a magazine and flip through it for fun even when they’re not shopping. The bad news is that the app can’t be installed to an SD card, so if you try to install it on an Android smartphone… Read more »

Google isn’t the only company building support for NFC (Near Field Communications) technology into its mobile payment apps. PayPal showed off a new app today that will allow you to transfer money simply by tapping two phones together. You just fire up the PayPal app on your phone and set it up to send money or receive money. Once the phones come into contact you’ll… Read more »

Google Shopper is an Android app that began its life as a sort of mobile price comparison tool. See an item in a store, but not sure if it’s being sold at the best price? Just whip out your Android smartphone, scan the barcode with your camera and Google Shopper will let you know if it’s cheaper online — or even at another nearby store…. Read more »

Online auction site eBay has released a major update to its Android app, adding a whole slew of seller tools. The eBay app for Android which was released last year only included tools for searching and tracking auctions and making purchases. Version 1.5 now allows users in the US and UK to list items, upload photos from ta phone, and use a barcode scanner to… Read more »

Google has rolled out an updated version of its mobile shopping app for Android which adds support for nearby offers and coupons. You can still use Google Shopper 1.5 to search for products using online and local stores. But you can also now click the “nearby Offers tab from the home screen to see if any nearby businesses are offering deals. The offers are divided… Read more »

The Google Nexus S phone which launched earlier this year is one of the first US smartphones to include NFC, or Near Field Communications technology which is used overseas to allow people to make purchases from retail stores using a phone instead of a credit card. But hardware only gets you so far. You also need the software to back it up, and while the inclusion of… Read more »

Social reading site Goodreads has finally launched an Android app, and so has online apparel store Zappos. Music store 7digital now lets you purchase and download music on an Android device, and xBackup lets users with jailbroken iOS devices backup and restore all of their jailbroken apps for easy re-installation. Here’s a roundup of some mobile app stories on our radar from around the web:… Read more »