The Apple Watch has yet to be released, but mobile ad network TapSense has already announced the first programmatic ad platform for Apple’s iPhone-connected wearable, according to VentureBeat. The new ad platform will incorporate full-screen images — TapSense’s first example is a full-screen coffee ad...
San Francisco’s Muni public transit system will begin testing a mobile ticketing app this summer, the city’s transit agency announced on Tuesday (Jan. 6). In the test, which will use iOS and Android mobile apps incorporating technology from mobile-ticketing startup GlobeSherpa, riders will be able...
NXT-ID will be showing the world the newest iteration of its Wocket smart wallet device at the 2015 International CES. The Connecticut based biometric authentication company gave their first preview of the smart wallet to select media yesterday (December 5), and this consumer electronics show...
The rise in popularity in the ridesharing market did exactly what e-Commerce did to traditional brick-and-mortar retail. It disrupted the space, undercut business models and angered those in the industry — but it grabbed consumer attention. That’s the nature of the free-market enterprise. And although it’s not...
Chinese real estate giant Dalian Wanda Group has pulled in 1 billion yuan ($161 million) for what it hopes will be the biggest omnichannel retail operation in the world, according to Forbes. The new money, for the e-commerce joint venture Dalian Wanda set up in...
Holiday-season online sales jumped 13.9 percent compared to 2013, according to a final report covering November and December from IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark. More than a quarter of that sales volume was from mobile phones and tablets, which also represented 45 percent of the traffic...
Detroit-based general motors is hoping to help its cars be equipped to ride on the information super-highway as well as they ride on the regular highway with an expansion of its OnStar service that will allow drivers to get coupons from local retailers and make...
When the first tech bubble burst at the turn of the 20th century, it more or less took Yahoo with it. In 1999, Yahoo had hundreds of millions of unique views per month and a market cap of $128 billion. Flash forward to the beginning...
Bitcoin prices took a nosedive this weekend falling a whopping 17.2 percent, in just 72 hours, from 311.05 on Friday to $257.61 on Sunday. That completes a rocky year of ups and downs for bitcoin, but mostly downs, with the leading crypto-currency falling 72.8 percent...
