Jumio’s breakthrough “NetSwipe” payment processing technology that transforms any webcam into a credit card terminal, has the potential to threaten PayPal and emerging payment startups such as Square.
Magazine publisher Conde Nast has inked a deal to sell advertising with Flipboard, an iPad app that creates a magazine-like experience out of a users social feed. Starting today, Flipboard users who access content from Bon Appetit, Wired or The New Yorker will encounter one full page ad for American Express for every three pages of content they read. A second campaign for Lexus will begin in October.
Maintaining an active blog presence can be a lot of work. You have to write unique content on a regular schedule, respond to reader comments, promote your blog through social networking, and try to build traffic through links and keyword search ranking. When your blog is only a part of your business, and not the [...]
A significant part of my day is spent maintaining my profiles on my social networks: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and now Google+.
Google has acquired a seven-year-old company that develops facial-recognition technology for images and video, though the Web-search giant didnt say what it plans to do with it.
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Content has become a large part of marketing, especially online. Inbound marketing tactics such as article marketing, blogging, and social media marketing have all proven to be very effective. As opposed to interruption marketing, inbound marketing is a technique that attracts the attention of a target audience member that is already looking for information on [...]
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Online ad companies have been debating for months about how to respond to people’s requests not to be tracked on the Web.