Red Bull is playing a smart game. Branded content is a huge area in social media at the moment but most brands get it so wrong by focusing on peppering their logo and branding on everything but Red Bull understand the subtle nature of this medium. The key to branded content is creating something...
Come November, the world’s second largest mass transit company will let its riders pay for trips by waving their cell phones at the terminal. The Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s main railway operator, began implementing its TouchTravel mobile payments system in 2008 and expects it to be ready within two months. The system will rely on...
Image: Aaron Wood See Also: Round 1 To Foursquare: Facebook Is Scaling Back Its Places Check-Ins Facebook Hits 1,000,000,000,000 Page Views Facebook Goes Straight For Instagram’s Throat With Photo Filters Facebook announced today that it’s phasing out its Groupon competitor Deals this week. The company released the information to Reuters in a statement, which...
Image: Aaron Wood See Also: Round 1 To Foursquare: Facebook Is Scaling Back Its Places Check-Ins Facebook Hits 1,000,000,000,000 Page Views Facebook Goes Straight For Instagram’s Throat With Photo Filters Facebook announced today that it’s phasing out its Groupon competitor Deals this week. The company released the information to Reuters in a statement, which...
Much has been made of supposed decline in the number of cable TV subscribers. But not everyone agrees that mass cord-cutting is reshaping the industry. Indeed, according to Kyle Dixon, Time Warner’s VP of Public Policy, we are seeing the “opposite” of cord-cutting with Time Warner seeing no “significant decrease” for its paid content....
While these may seem unrelated, as we covered Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple this week and the 20th Anniversary of Linux, the question kept swimming through our collective heads. We debated it internally, we tossed snide comments back and forth, each firm in our own conviction that our favorite model was the...
For large software development teams, Microsoft Visual Studio has one feature whose functionality actually resembles that of Outlook in one regard: The addition of workflow templates gives team members manageable lists of tasks to be done. The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is a set of best practices originally developed by Microsoft for Microsoft, to...
Despite its role as a major selling point of the revamped Apple TV last fall, Apple has done away with TV show rentals. Several bloggers noticed the option to rent individual episodes missing from iTunes and Apple TV Friday, and Apple later confirmed the decision was based on lack of interest. “iTunes customers have...
Ariba Contract Management is an established business software package, from a company that deploys its own cloud (Ariba Commerce Cloud). The company caters to a class of customers who produce thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of contracts in their everyday work, and need an audit trail for each one. (Tip from an expert: There...
Facebook is shutting down its Deals service reports Reuters. Facebook’s Groupon-like deal service launched late April in 5 major cities and offered the ability to cash in on deals local to you and your network. “After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks,” said a...