Commerce Weekly: You can now buy stuff with tweets
American Express turns Twitter into an ecommerce platform American Express announced an enhancement this week to its Sync with Twitter feature — users can now buy things with a tweet. Tricia Duryee...
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Commerce Weekly: Best Buy wants to end showrooming, Google wants to start
Google takes on brick-and-mortar; Best Buy takes on ecommerce The Google retail store rumor ignited again this week. Seth Weintraub reported at 9to5Google that “[a]n extremely reliable source has...
View ArticleCommerce Weekly: Visa pursues NFC mobile payments
Visa looks to kick-start NFC Visa is taking aim at the NFC mobile payment holy grail. On Friday, the company announced the Visa Ready Partner Program. Leena Rao reports at TechCrunch that the...
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Commerce Weekly: Google may be prepping an Amazon Prime competitor
Is Google gearing up to battle Amazon head-on? The Google e-commerce rumor mill continued churning this week. Alexia Tsotsis reported at TechCrunch that Google is “stealthily preparing to launch an...
View ArticleCommerce Weekly: Intuit Pay heats up U.K. mobile payments market
Intuit Pay enters U.K., PayPal Here takes on Square Register On the heels of PayPal announcing it would bring PayPal Here to the U.K. later this year, Intuit launched its Intuit Pay mobile payments...
View ArticleCommerce Weekly: The lucrative art of tracking shopper behavior
Snooping on shoppers pays off Liz Gannes took a look this week at how online retailers’ desires to track consumers’ shopping habits are resulting in emerging startups offering services to track various...
View ArticleCommerce Weekly: Wal-Mart looks outside the (big) box to battle Amazon
Wal-Mart wants to crowdsource delivery, while Google chases same-day On the heels of launching its in-store delivery locker program to compete with Amazon Locker, Wal-Mart has announced it’s toying...
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Commerce Weekly: Apple iWallet/NFC rumors reignite with newest patent...
iPhone patent application focused on “a method for conducting a financial transaction” The US Patent & Trademark Office published a new patent application from Apple this week that indicates...
View ArticleHTML5 makes offline web apps possible
With advances in HTML5, web apps no longer require an Internet connection — thanks to HTML5′s support of client-side storage, web apps now can run offline in today’s browsers. “An HTML5 offline...
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Commerce Weekly: Amazon patent indicates its interest in the payments space
Editor’s note: This will be the final installment of our Commerce Weekly series. Mobile payments security, privacy concerns rise; Amazon may have a solution The race is on to democratize mobile...
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Tech events you don’t want to miss
Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology space. Have an event to share? Send us a note. The Best of Fluent: Maintainable JavaScript webcast Date: 5 a.m....
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A human approach to postmortem reviews
There is nothing pleasant about postmortem reviews following an outage, and many companies struggle to execute positive, effective reviews. In a recent interview, Dave Zwieback (@mindweather), head of...
View ArticleTech Events You Don’t Want to Miss
Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and space. Have an event to share? Send us a note. IBM Impact Developer Unconference: Tim O’Reilly is speaking, Grady Brooch is...
View ArticleTech Events You Don’t Want to Miss
Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. Boston Web Performance Meetup: Tim Locke addresses solutions to...
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How to Develop for the Mobile Casual Gaming Market
HTML5 is becoming a larger and larger part of game design—so much so that Jesse Freeman (@jessefreeman) expects the future of HTML5 gaming to go beyond the browser. In the following interview, Freeman,...
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Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. Kicking up the Dust with NodeJS and a Bunch of Other JavaScript...
View ArticleBuilding Windows 8 Apps, Hadoop Developer Track Course, Write/Speak/Code, and...
Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. Zero to App in Two Weeks webcast: Kraig Brockschmidt shares...
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How Web Pages Can Extend (or Drain) Mobile Device Battery Life
According to recent Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecasts (PDF), the number of mobile-connected devices will surpass the world’s population this year, and by 2015, there will be 788 million mobile-only...
View ArticleBuilding Modern Web Apps, Build 2013, TechEd North America, and More
Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. Modern Web Applications Utilizing HTML5 APIs webcast: Ido Green...
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Driving the Momentum of Modern Web App Development
The rapid pace of improvements in browser technologies and the growith of HTML5 have presented many opportunities and challenges for web app developers. In the following interview, Ido Green, developer...
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