On Tuesday, mobile ad giant Amobee became even more of a giant in its rapidly expanding industry.

The company has once against bolstered its tools and talent through the acquisition of AdJitsu – a 3D mobile ad company.

Amobee says it will leverage AdJitsu’s technology to accelerate the innovation of highly interactive 3D mobile ads.

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Amtrak is on the express train of mobile technology.

This week, the company announced that its passengers will soon be able to use electronic tickets for their travels aboard Amtrak.

Riders will have the choice of either printing scannable tickets or loading a special bar code on their smartphone screens. iPhone-ready conductors will then be able to scan the tickets or barcodes.

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This week, Color – the hugely video-broadcasting app for iOS and Android – confirmed an exciting new partnership with Verizon.

In short, the updated app will dramatically improve the quality and delivery of videos it captures.

“Today,” writes founder Bill Nguyen on the Color Blog, “we’re formally unveiling our relationship with Verizon and a small down payment on the future. With their help, we’ve added audio to our LIVE video exclusively on the Verizon network. We’ve doubled the frame rate on our videos so our friends and family can see more moments more clearly. We did all this in less than two months.”

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comScore on Monday heralded the launch of Mobile Metrix 2.0 – its next generation mobile behavioral measurement service.

And the findings, as always, are of great interest to the mobile, web, and social media communities.

Among smartphone users age 18 and older accessing from iOS, Android and RIM smartphones, Google Sites ranked as the top property with nearly 94 million unique visitors, representing 96.9 percent of the mobile audience.

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This week, AT&T Mobility confirmed its new partnership with Facebook.

What’s the occasion? The two titans of their respective fields are joining forces to host a “hackathon.”

In particular, the event is for HTML5 developers concentrating on the social networking sphere of app development.

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The popular series of “talk to Chuck” ads now have more fodder for conversation – mobile bill payments.

Rolling out a slate of new on-the-go banking solutions for investors, Charles Schwab today announced the release of Schwab Bank Bill Pay for iPad, iPhone and Android.

When it comes to helping driving mobile payment adoption, the Charles Schwab Corporation is no small player in the financial world. The company has more than 300 offices and 8.6 million client brokerage accounts, 1.52 million corporate retirement plan participants, 801,000 banking accounts, and $1.83 trillion in client assets.

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This week, Todd Brix, Senior Director for Windows Marketplace at Microsoft, posted a long declaration on the official Windows Blog. The vow made by Brix and his team involves an ongoing effort by the software and mobile giant to clean up its cluttered Windows Phone Marketplace.

“Today I’ll outline the latest steps we’re taking in our ongoing effort to keep the quality bar high in our rapidly growing Marketplace,” Brix writes. “I know most of you share our goal of a great shopping experience and already go out of your way to follow our policies and guidance. For others, I hope this insight into a few near-term changes we’re putting in place helps save you time and reduces your risk of having apps pulled from the Marketplace.”

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