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There was a time, back in the early 90’s, in the days of AOL, You’ve Got Mail, and dial-up modems, when something of…
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Amazon is touting a record holiday shopping weekend thanks to the increasing popularity of its tablets, e-readers, streaming devices, and other hardware. Yet,…
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In this five part series, we have referred to gift cards and pre-paid cards interchangeably when traditionally there have been key differences…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 4 of 5: Sector Outlook – Gift Cards as Alternative Banking
In part 3 of this gift card series, we looked at the business drivers behind increased consumer adoption. In this post we…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 2 of 5: The Business, Social and Technology Trends Driving E-Gift Card Adoption, Innovation and Investment
In Part One of our look at the gift card sector, we provided an overview of the accelerated activity characterizing the sector…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age (Series). Part 1 of 5: Gift Cards are Cool Again (and Everyone Wants In)
The gift card sector is sizzling these days – more so than they’ve ever been. In the past four years, there has…
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Amazon Books should be the future of brick-and-mortar retail chains
Earlier this month, Amazon opened a bookstore in a mall that used to house a Barnes & Noble. Much has been written…
Read MoreFacebook Beta Launches Work Chat Application
Late last week, Facebook quietly made its entry into the work chat (enterprise real-time messaging) arena with the very limited release of…
Read MoreFacebook touts the strength of its developer tools
Facebook is tooting the horns of its various developer tools by sharing how DoubleU Games, a South Korean developer, used them to learn…
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Microsoft’s Lumia 950: the shape of things to come?
Peter Bright of Ars Technica did us all a great favor by producing a detailed evaluation of Microsoft’s Lumia 950 Windows phone. I…
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Team Chat Apps and the Illusion of Communication
This post was originally published at The Modern Team” “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken…
Read MoreAlign Your Mobile Strategy for Beautiful Omnichannel Experiences
In a 2015 survey commissioned by FollowAnalytics and Gigaom Research, enterprise mobile marketers revealed the critical role that their mobile apps play in the lifetime value of the customer. Once brochureware or purely transactional, mobile apps have evolved and are now expected to deliver intelligent, personalized, 1:1 journeys providing consistency with all other channels such as web, email, and in-store experiences.
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With StageLight, Android finally gets a serious music editing app
One big reason you don’t find many audio editing options on Android is due to the operating system not being great when…
Read MoreJive Software and Egnyte Sync Up
Enterprise collaboration software provider Jive Software and Egnyte, an enterprise file sync and share vendor, have formed a new partnership and technology…
Read MoreThe not-so-distant future of mobile and video
Galia is COO and head of sales for Taptica. The mobile video advertising ecosystem is headed toward a major eruption. By the end…
Read MoreRecent Enterprise File Sync and Sharing News
Here is a brief round-up of some recent news from the Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing market segment. EFSS Application Security MobileIron…
Read MoreBank POV: An Interview with U.S. Bank CIO Dominic Venturo
At the Plug and Play Retail and FinTech Expo on October 22nd, I had the opportunity to interview Dominic Venturo, CIO of…
Read MoreFacebook’s transformation into a mobile company is complete
Investors are likely to be happy with Facebook’s third-quarter earnings results, which were announced this afternoon. All of the company’s most important metrics…
Read MoreGoogle Inbox Smart Reply: Cognition Meets Communication
How hot is work chat in the enterprise? So trendy that it’s now being used to improve the very thing it’s supposedly…
Read MoreMillennial MBAs, NextGen FinTech & the Rise of the Micro Conference
Continuing the millennial and fintech discussion, I recently attended the country’s largest (business) student run digital media conference, the Berkeley HaaS School…
Read MoreAs BYOD becomes standard will we see BYOMessaging?
There are approximately 2 billion smartphone users in the world today. On those devices, there are 3.8 billion active monthly users of…
Read MoreMobile payments go mainstream – is it time to say goodbye to the plastic?
2015 will go down in history as the year in which mobile payments became mainstream. From first forays by the main mobile…
Read MoreConnected cars: Objects in the future are closer than they appear
Today, because some connected products are more clever than critical (see Budweiser’s smart refrigerator) while others generate more buzz than users (see smartwatches),…
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