Social Commerce

Loyalty & Rewards
Orbitz Reports Strong Q1 Growth Backed By Enhanced Mobile And Rewards
May 14, 2014

Travel booking site Orbitz has reported its first quarter 2014 results, which boast modest but solid growth. Orbitz’s adjusted growth rate in Q1 was $0.33 year-on-year to $ 28.7 million with room night growth of 12% and net revenue growth of 4%. The company attributes much...

News
New From Pinterest: Corporate Pins For Sale
May 14, 2014

Pinterest, the online social site that allows users to “pin”their favorite things to their personal wall is now looking to monetize the service by selling “pins” to businesses. Pinterest currently has millions of users and a $4 billion valuation, but as of yet it does...

Breach Round Up
Social Media Latest To Feel Security Flaw Impact
May 10, 2014

Another week, another discovered security flaw. This week’s flaw, dubbed “Covert Redirect,” allows cyber-attackers to disguise themselves as log-in popups based on an affected site’s domain. Social media sites are among those affected, leaving potentially millions of users at risk of having personal information stolen.

B2B Payments
Quill Asks Its B2B Customers for New Ideas
May 08, 2014

In the age of social media, sellers have seen greater openness from customers who now more openly share opinions, ratings, and feedback with their peers and companies they do business with. Many successful consumer brands have relied on consumers for not just marketing but also...

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Foursquare Bets Big, Splits In Two
May 02, 2014

Until now, the point of Foursquare has more or less been to allow people to check-in to locations and find out what locations their friends were checked-in to. That is more or less an artifact of history now, as Foursquare makes a big bet in...

Mobile
Facebook Stock Jumps After Announcing Mobile Ad Network
May 01, 2014

After starting the day at a deficit, Facebook picked up momentum after announcing several new products at its f8 developer conference, including the Mobile Ad Network.

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Facebook’s eCommerce Push
May 01, 2014

Using its auto-fill service Facebook is putting its toe into eCommerce waters, albeit with a partner retailer in both cases. The social media giant announced yesterday that the 450,000 merchants currently using e-commerce site builder Ecwid will now be easily able to integrate Autofill With Facebook...

Mobile Commerce
MoneyGram Signs Facebook App Deal With PicomoPay
April 29, 2014

Funds-transfer company MoneyGram on April 28 announced a deal in which U.S. consumers in May may begin sending transfers using PicomoPay’s Facebook application to more than 336,000 MoneyGram agent locations in 200 countries.   Social and mobile-payments platform PicomoPay enables consumers to conduct person-to-person payments...

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Police Targeting Uber And Lyft Drivers?
April 28, 2014

It’s not easy being an innovator, as Lyft and Uber drivers in place likes Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are finding out as the police are issuing thousands of dollars in citations to “send a message.” Officers in plain cloths in Madison and Pittsburgh have used the...