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December 27, 2016 Mobile Mini ATMs launched for tea gardens in Assam
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for demonetisation has changed many things for a lot of people in the country. One of them being the way payments are being done in tea gardens of Assam. Right since the Britishers introduced tea plantation in Assam and brought the Adivasi tea garden workers from Chota Nagpur plateau, Odisha, […]
ELECTRONICS 
December 13, 2016 App or Credit? Why Cash May be Replaced by Mobile Payments
It is Monday morning in San Francisco, and you have just woken up late. To help in your rush to get to work on time, you use your favorite ride service app to pay for a driver to bring you to work. On the way to work, that pre-coffee, drowsy feeling starts to kick in, […]
NEWS December 13, 2016 9 Ways Mobile Apps Help Your Business During The Holiday Season
With the holiday season right around the corner, now is the time to ensure that your business is ready for the potential profits that mobile ecommerce has to offer. If you don’t think you need to be ready to target that mobile audience, then here’s a quick history lesson that might broaden your horizons. In […]
COUPONS 
December 13, 2016 Matt Stringer of Men’s Wearhouse: Mobile Wallet Tech Will Change Customer Engagement
Small Business Trends: Give us a little of your background. Matt: I came in 16 years ago and went from being one of three people in the marketing department – with a channel strategy almost exclusively TV. Now we’re a team that includes an in house creative team, a CRM team, a database marketing team, […]
ELECTRONICS December 8, 2016 HP Officejet Pro 8630 Takes Business Printing Mobile
Usefulness Functionality Price Summary The HP Officejet Pro 8630 is a great way to get print jobs that last at a fraction of the cost of a laser printer. Good office printers are still a necessity no matter how mobile, cloud-based and digital businesses are getting. The problem, of course, is finding a reliable printing […]
ELECTRONICS December 7, 2016 SMB Owners Get Mobile Coupons For The Holidays
Google’s getting into the holiday spirit a little early this year, announcing the availability of mobile coupons for small business owners. The coupon part has been around for awhile, however, Google’s done a pretty good job failing to promote them. But no longer. With the change, any business owner who creates and adds a mobile […]
NEWS December 5, 2016 Skype Announces Mobile Group Calls, Samsung Creates VR Camera
Mobile technology is getting more and more advanced. And thanks to those advances, businesses are continually able to do more with less. This week, mobile inclined businesses got some welcome news in the form of Skype announcing a group calling feature for mobile devices. In addition, Samsung announced a new virtual reality camera called the […]
ELECTRONICS December 5, 2016 Apple Fails to Block Sales of Samsung Mobile Devices
The resolution of a dispute between Apple and Samsung will only hasten the coming of a more mobile economy. Your business must be ready. To this end, we’ve assembled some big picture information about where the mobile explosion stands and how it may change customer behavior. We also take a closer look at what you […]
NEWS November 28, 2016 Black Friday’s Record Sales Driven by Mobile Devices, Finds Report
HIGHLIGHTS Adobe’s survey estimated sales of $3.05 billion on Black Friday 2016 Mobiles drove the majority of retail sites visits at 56 percent iOS continued to drive larger sales than Android In a first, online shopping on Black Friday is estimated to have hit the $3 billion mark in the US with a major chunk […]
ELECTRONICS November 18, 2016 HP Did Better Than The Market on PC Sales, But Mum About Mobile
Meg Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said in the latest quarterly earnings conference call that the market for personal computers is “in a slow decline.” Yet, she said, HP “outperformed the market pretty dramatically this quarter.” In other words, even though the market for personal computers is declining, HP did not decline like the market. HP’s sales […]
ELECTRONICS 
November 14, 2016 Google Releases New Mobile Search Features
Google’s been on a bit of a “new feature” kick this week. So far this week heard about real-time search, personalized search, Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s thoughts on Internet ‘privacy’, and news about Google’s new mobile search service. As you can see, there’s lots of new Google stuff to report on, however, it’s the latter […]
ALL DEALS October 30, 2016 Google Parent Alphabet Profit Surges on Mobile, Video Ads
HIGHLIGHTS Alphabet’s net income climbed 27 percent to $5.06 billion Google is competing with Facebook for dominance in mobile advertising Advertising accounted for 89.1 percent of Google’s total revenue Google parent Alphabet Inc bested analysts’ estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday as the search company showed it has honed its core business for […]
