Until now, the point of Foursquare has more or less been to allow people to check-in to locations and find out what locations their friends were checked-in to. That is more or less an artifact of history now, as Foursquare makes a big bet in...
After starting the day at a deficit, Facebook picked up momentum after announcing several new products at its f8 developer conference, including the Mobile Ad Network.
Using its auto-fill service Facebook is putting its toe into eCommerce waters, albeit with a partner retailer in both cases. The social media giant announced yesterday that the 450,000 merchants currently using e-commerce site builder Ecwid will now be easily able to integrate Autofill With Facebook...
Funds-transfer company MoneyGram on April 28 announced a deal in which U.S. consumers in May may begin sending transfers using PicomoPay’s Facebook application to more than 336,000 MoneyGram agent locations in 200 countries. Social and mobile-payments platform PicomoPay enables consumers to conduct person-to-person payments...
It’s not easy being an innovator, as Lyft and Uber drivers in place likes Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are finding out as the police are issuing thousands of dollars in citations to “send a message.” Officers in plain cloths in Madison and Pittsburgh have used the...
Frrole, an India-based data analytics start-up that combs Twitter looking for patterns and trends that could be interesting and actionable for businesses, has just raised $245K in Angel funding from investors including former head of Yahoo! R&D centre in India Sharad Sharma, Eka Software founder Manav Garg and Google’s...
Players continue to zig and zag around the mPOS space yet common themes are beginning to emerge. The March mPOS Tracker highlights the five key things that all successful – and scalable mPOS solutions have. Want to see if your solution makes the cut?
In a departure from their roots as the internets premier destination for posting adorable pictures of children and ill-advised pictures of drinking, Facebook is making and entry into the payments industry with remittances and electronic money. The social media behemoth is weeks away from receiving regulatory...
The Hunt offers and interesting variation on crowdsourced shopping–it allows users to post snap shots of retail items like clothing or home goods and then post them and get other users trying to hunt them down. It is an approach that has garnered attention and...
