Mobile Banking Trends Accentuate Mobile Growth in General

Mercatus released the results from an interesting survey about the mobile offerings of banks. According to the firm's findings, banks that offer mobile financial services can increase their new customers acquisitions by as much as sixty percent.

Google Puts More Images (And One Big Pic) On Results Pages

The PageZoom, NoSquint, and Image Zoom add-ons for Firefox have been downloaded over 5 million times, all together, so obviously, there are a significant number of people for whom default sizes don't cut it.  And now Google's trying to help them out by adjusting the way in which it displays image results.

Microsoft Throws IE Rivals A Bone In Europe

Today, Microsoft may have given Firefox and Chrome a better shot at grabbing market share in Europe.  A report's indicated that Microsoft will appease antitrust regulators - along with its competitors - by showing Windows users a randomized ballot screen for Web browsers.

Google Reportedly Readying Property Portal in UK

According to the Financial Times, Google is in talks with estate agents in Britain to launch an online property portal for the UK, similar to one that already exists in Australia. Through that one, agents list properties and show pictures from Google Maps Street View. FT cites Douglas & Godon (an estate firm) commercial director Ed Mead as its source, who claims to have spoken…