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Beacon executives at the ad:tech New York conference claim that nearly five million beacons will be deployed over the next five years. The execs did acknowledge that beacon adoption has been slower in the U.S. than in other geographies, but expect to see those difference...
It seems soon Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains could soon know the world of hurt that ride-sharing has already brough to the world’s taxi operators. Instead of offering a taxi service like Uber or Lyft, Tripda matches passengers and drivers (who are already planning travel)...
Q3 shaped up to be a tough quarter for Groupon – the online discount merchant turned e-retailer suffered a loss of $21.2 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $2.6 million. Revenues, however, were on the upswing – Groupon saw revenue...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his company’s three, five and 10-year-plans Tuesday (Oct. 28), and none of those plans involved Facebook launching its own payments engine. But that doesn’t rule out Facebook choosing to have a major influence, as Zuckerberg said the massive social operation...
Nobody in the real world likes failure. When new business ventures are launching, entrepreneurs talk about the great and potent success they plan to enjoy, not the many valuable lessons they will learn in the wake their inevitable failure – a reality is that 99.99...
France can now lay claim to an early social media person-to-person money transfer achievement, as French Twitter users can now Tweet cash to followers. A division of Groupe BPCS (France’s second-largest banking group) called S-money partnered with Twitter to make the move for anyone with...
A Harris poll has found that barely 5 percent of adult shoppers (they didn’t examine younger than 18-year-old behavior) have made a purchase on social networks. This is the context of Twitter preparing a major push for social shopping via its Buy Button. Get the...
In a move that could help solidify its status as the go-to payments power behind social media’s expansion into e-commerce, Stripe has been named Facebook’s partner in developing it’s “buy” button. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
