Groupon to Compete with Square And PayPal in the Processing Space?
Word on the Digital Street Word on the digital street is Groupon is considering entering the payments space. Keywords like “Extremely aggressive” and “reaching” have been used to describe their pricing in recent bids to gain entry, and here’s why. Groupon already has a major deficit of trust among many small business owners. Add that to [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 3-16-2012
Posterous Acquired by Twitter We first taught you how to get started with Posterous back in 2009. Soon after that, Posterous added a more advanced editor and continued to grow in popularity. Sharing a vision with Twitter of making sharing simple, arguably the easiest to use and most socially integrated blogging platform out there [...]
Read MoreMichael Jackson Tribute Set to Livestream on Facebook
Even if you are a die hard Michael Jackson fan, getting to London and paying two hundred dollars to see the upcoming tribute concert in person may not be realistic. Thanks to Facebook, the concert will be available via livestream straight from Millenium Stadium on their site. To see the concert online, viewers can pay [...]
Read MoreVisa Announces New Payment Service, Takes on Paypal
Credit card technology has come a long way. It wasn’t that long ago that we were marveling at the being able to use our cell phones to process a card payment. Visa’s latest announcement will change the way we deal with credit forever. Yesterday, Visa announced a partnership with CashEdge and Fiserv that will allow people to use their [...]
Read MoreKickstart Your Software Development Game With Fundry
Recently, Black Web 2.0 highlighted a popular service called Kickstarter, which helps individuals and groups in multiple categories raise money for their entrepreneurship ventures. Kickstarter tends to trend towards more creative ideas in media, arts, music and other categories. Today we will discuss Fundry which trends towards the software development space. Fundry defines itself as a crowdfunding platform that helps developers get paid for developing new features, and enables a community of funders to contribute to get the features they want. Find out more info inside.
Read MoreGoogle Adds App Search. Frostwire Goes Mobile. Android Market to Get PayPal Support.
Users of Android and iPhone devices have recently noticed a feature on Google search for mobile that lets you search for apps. Searching for an app will give you more details on that app at the top of your results. You can also use the “more” dropdown to access Android/iPhone App Search directly. While the [...]
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