I read the article about the growth of Twitter and Zynga. These two articles are separately written by the same writer, Emma Barnett of Telegraph. One interesting point is that they have not commonly defined the long-term goal of the company. Zynga’s founder, Mark Pincus, doesn’t have any thought to sell the company but only […]
There’s smart applications which read barcodes. Even some applications embeds QR code scanning function as QR code is widely used for promotion and marketing. When I scan the item, a lot of information are provided. I can know the place that sells the item at a lowest price and how far from here. Like a […]
Acer, the 2nd PC manufacturer in the world, has released the series of tablet PCs. These tablet PCs support Windows7 and Android. Price would be key to succeed in this newly booming market. Especially as the former case of Folio 100 in England, high speculation with an expensive price is difficult to grab a customer’s […]
Finally Apple has released iOS4.2 on Monday(Nov. 22). It provides several new functions such as multitasking, folders, airprint and airplay. Now OS is getting more important than before. Especially after Google’s Froyo upgrade, many people expect Gingerbread would be nicer. A few days ago, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, talked to De Telegraaf, a […]
Everyday I’ve read interesting news about commerce. According to the article of Reuters, there is the rumor that Groupon may be acquired by Google. It’s already started that the strategy of Google on commerce is progressing in detail. The representative example are acquisition of ‘Like.com’ and launching of ‘Boutiques.com.’ Groupon has already established its nationwide […]
Social shopping is widely used after the launch of Groupon. Many people frequently use this service for the reason why they can buy items cheap. So it makes people to buy items not by their needs but their competitive prices. For example, some people are busy to drop by shops and restaurants every weekends for […]
Check-in is not a simple function. After the continuous launch of LBS with check-in, LBS has made a turning point of LBS services. And ‘Foursquare’ is the representative example of these services. Even Facebook released ‘Places’ which has implemented chech-in. Based on this, Facebook will provide the service as a marketing tool. Gowalla is also […]
Online shopping market is rapidly growing in America. According to the report of Forrester, the market size would be 27 billion dollars, increasing by 17% appared to the past year. Until now, many people think that online shopping is driven by the price-competitiveness and customization. And the latter is induced by a buying record or […]
A few months ago, Steve Jobs told that 7″ screen is ambiguous for tablet PCs. But 10″ screen would be more difficult to beat down the juggernaut, Apple’s iPad. Toshiba’s tablet computer, the Folio 100, has been withdrawn from Dixons stores in the UK because of a high return rate. It has a powerful functions […]
Google’s next Android OS, Gingerbread, will support NFC(Near Field Communication) based services. Especially, Eric Schmidt told that Google will cooperate with payment processing companies rather than compete with them. NFC is de facto standard of a mobile payment service. But because of distributing mobile infra, it has not been widely used except some countries including […]