Carpooling may not be a favorite among commuters who don’t want to share a cab with a complete stranger, but it is a cheaper way to get around and is a big focus of Uber and Lyft. Now, New York City’s yellow taxis are getting...
So, what’s this location-based advertising thing, and why is it (going to be) so important for the future of retail and mobile transactions? Well, if you’re an advertiser or somebody whose job it is to get products and brands in the face of consumers, then location-based...
Beacons are treading dangerously close to the realm of vaporware that’s often talked about in revolutionary terms, despite never materializing in the real world. If they have any allies left, it very well might be CVS and Google. Internet Retailer is reporting that the neighborhood...
Anyone questioning the business model of Uber may need a new hobby, granted the service continues to gain in popularity, as it seems likely to do after announcing a new milestone on Monday (July 18). According to the carsharing service, Uber completed greater than 2 billion...
How did you pay for your coffee this morning? If you’re among the group of people who prefer paying in cash over a credit card, debit card or mobile payment app — and yes, there are those people out there — a new study reveals...
Pokémon GO — you might love it, you might hate it, but you’ve most certainly heard of it by now. Retailers had to get hip to the idea of sudden hordes of phone-toting pedestrians showing up at their store fronts when the red-hot mobile app launched...
Years from now, parents will struggle to describe to their kids what life was like before Pokémon GO was released and countless millennials were suddenly loosed from their houses into the wide world around them. The mobile game is still barely a week old, but the sheer...
Valve, the entertainment software and technology company that specializes in online and mobile gaming, is finally getting tough with the “gambling ecosystem” that has sprung up around many of its games, according to a report from The Next Web. The gaming company is threatening to ban...
Mastercard CIO Ed McLaughlin was often heard describing Mastercard’s vision for commerce as one that would take it anywhere the consumer wanted to take it, including “to any connected device on the edge of the network.” Today, we’re seeing that vision made reality. Network giant...
