Online to Offline: How Mobile Payments Will Shake Up Real-World Commerce

Posted on May 25, 2011 by robhof

With Google queuing up the debut of its mobile payments system on Thursday and Square announcing plans to replace the cash register and the wallet in one fell swoop, there’s a lot of interest in the use of cell phones to pay for things in the physical world. This morning, we’re hearing a bit more [...]

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Yahoo Goes Meta-Social With Facebook Integration and Yahoo Pulse

Posted on June 6, 2010 by robhof

If you can’t dominate, aggregate. That seems to be the basic model online for also-rans in whatever online activity you can think of. And so it goes with Yahoo, which despite some 500 million monthly users worldwide has spent fruitless years trying to make them socialize on countless Yahoo properties. So Sunday night Pacific time, [...]

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Google Buzz Won’t Kill Anything. Except Your Notions of What Email Is.

Posted on February 9, 2010 by robhof

Every time Google comes out with a new service, pundits rush to assure us that it’s going to kill this or that startup. Or the skeptical ones that it’s an attempt to kill this or that startup but won’t because it sucks in this way or that. As usual, Google Buzz, announced today and scheduled [...]

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