Starbucks is building on the significant success of its mobile payments app with several new capabilities, including making drive-thru payments available for the first time and extending its PayPal integration to Canada. 

Registration is open for the Mcommerce Summit: State of Mobile Commerce 2012 conference Thursday, May 3 with speakers from Citi, Zappos, Travelocity, 7-Eleven licensee Alon Brands and mall giant General Growth Properties. Must-attend New York event for retailers and marketers.

AMC Theatres has rolled out a mobile ticketing application to let users buy movie tickets while on the go.

Urbanspoon has redesigned its iPhone application that now lets diners discover restaurants based on the elements most important to them.

There is an unmet demand for mobile incentives, with 55 percent of consumers expressing an interest in mobile coupons but only 10 percent having actually received one from a merchant.

Luxury Daily today - Using location-based marketing to drive traffic to luxury hotels; Is Twitter more effective than Facebook for driving sales?

I don't know how many Craftsman hammers are sold annually, but I guess the number is at least in the hundreds of thousands. What does it know about these hammers sold? Next to nothing, I bet.