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Cash Usage: Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Posted by Margaret Weichert on 21 December 2010 | 2 Comments

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Despite years of predictions suggesting that cash would one day disappear, recent data suggests cash is not only here to stay, but its usage may in fact be on the rise.  Many pundits have long believed that dirty, "inefficient" paper money would soon be replaced by plastic cards, mobile payments, and possibly even biometric payments (has anyone seen "Demolition Man"?).

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Search, Social and Swag

Posted by Karen Webster on 22 October 2009 | 244 Comments

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Lots of people have been talking about social sites cannibalizing search. I've addressed this in a prior post since it comes up a lot. eMarketer published a report today that has two interesting findings. First, Google, Bing and Yahoo have little to worry about. They still represent nearly all (like 97.8%) of the search traffic out there. No big surprise, but, here's the interesting part, those who "search" via social networks are often more loyal customers to the sites that are referred by them.

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