NoshList, an app-based restaurant waitlist service, said on Tuesday (Feb. 10) that it’s changing its name to Waitlist Me — in large part because it’s no longer being used just by restaurants. “Even when Waitlist Me was focused primarily on restaurants, smart businesses in other...
Facebook’s new features that make it a bit easier for users to sell items represent a minor social commerce update. But they’re also a return to an old challenge: how to challenge Craigslist as the king of online classified ads, according to Bloomberg News. The...
Are banks ready to hone in on mobile offers delivered via beacons? Beacon network Mobiquity is hoping that’s the case, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. Last week, Mobiquity announced a deal with app provider Relevant Solutions that would add location-based offers, coupons and targeted advertising to...
Wendy’s is looking to payments as a way to pull customers in and keep them returning. The fast-food chain is installing a standardized point-of-sale system in more than 2,600 locations to use as a mobile marketing platform, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. The common POS system,...
Beacons, it turns out, aren’t just for the big kids. The Niemann Foods supermarket chain is putting iBeacons in all 45 of its County Market stores across Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, according to Mobile Commerce Daily. That makes Niemann one of the first independent grocery...
While largely seen as a major Android phone carrier, Samsung wants to be thought of more like Apple than like other phones, in that it wants to have its own built-in ecosystem that its consumers can come to use in their everyday lives. One way...
China has blasted past the half-billion mobile users mark. A report from the Beijing government’s China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) says the number of mobile Internet users climbed to 557 million as of December 2014, up 11.4 percent from the year before, TechCrunch reported....
Apple has updated its list of financial institutions that fully support Apple Pay with another 15 banks and credit unions, bringing the total to 61, 9to5 Mac reported on Tuesday (Feb. 3). The new additions to the list include the 673-branch BBVA Compass, one of...
Camera phones have pretty much put a crimp in the sale of cameras as most people are happy to trade off photo quality to the convenience of being able to snap a picture and post to Facebook or send to a friend via an email...
