Posts Categorized: online business

Google showcases the best Android apps for its first-ever Google Play Awards

Posted by & filed under Android, app, e-payment, Google, Google Play Store, online business, online gaming, smartphones, Social Media, Software.

Description: The final winners will be announced live on May 19th at 7 PM PT at Google I/O and will be live streamed. Source: Tech Crunch Date: April 22, 2016 Apple has historically doled out annual awards to those third-party app developers that it believes have created the best apps and games over the past 12… Read more »

Bot Wars: Why Big Tech Companies Want Apps To Talk Back To You

Posted by & filed under Advertisement, app, Artificial intelligence, bots, Business Intelligence, market intelligence, messenger, networking, online business, user habits.

Description: Can a new wave of chatbots from Facebook and Microsoft upend apps as we know them, or is that just wishful thinking? Source: Fast Company Date: April 22, 2016 The rise of conversational “chatbots” begins with a claim you might initially dismiss as preposterous. “Bots are the new apps,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared during… Read more »

Now Competing To Be The Master Of Your Domain: Squarespace

Posted by & filed under domains, e-payment, Ecommerce, godaddy, marketing, online business, squarespace.

Description: Squarespace’s newest product offering takes direct aim at domain registrars like GoDaddy. Source: Fast Company Date: April 15, 2016 Squarespace and a handful of companies like Wix and WordPress parent Automattic serve as the 800-pound gorillas of the website hosting and content worlds. Now Squarespace is looking to take on GoDaddy and other web domain… Read more »

Messenger Chatbots Likely To Top The Agenda At Facebook’s F8 This Week

Posted by & filed under Advertisement, app, FaceBook, messenger, online advertising, online business.

Description: Other big topics will include Instant Articles, Live Video, 360 Video, and much more. Source: Fast Company Date: April 11, 2016 When more than 2,000 people descend on San Francisco this week for Facebook’s annual two-day F8 developers conference, their discussions and decisions will have a huge impact on how you and 1.59 billion other… Read more »

Stripe Is Going To Help Cuban Startups Do Business In The U.S.

Posted by & filed under Banking, Cuba, Entrepreneurship, global networking, money, online business, Stripe.

Description: It’s finally legal for Cuban entrepreneurs to incorporate and bank in the U.S. With its Atlas service, Stripe is seizing the opportunity. Source: Fast Company Date: March 18, 2016 On Tuesday of this week, the Obama administration—ahead of the president’s visit to Havana next week—announced a loosening of decades-old restrictions that permits U.S. banks to… Read more »

Foursquare Expands On-Demand Food And Alcohol Delivery Options

Posted by & filed under Analytics, business models, Food delivery, foursquare, online business.

Description: Foursquare just announced a partnership with Delivery.com to enable Foursquare users to order food, alcohol and groceries for delivery right from the Foursquare app. Source: TechCrunch Date: February 11, 2016 The integration is made possible thanks to a mobile commerce platform called Button, which also works with companies like Uber, Airbnb and Ticketmaster. For you,… Read more »

Alibaba’s Taobao shopping platform targeted in cyberattack

Posted by & filed under app, China, Cyber attack, e-payment, Ecommerce, Entrepreneurship, money, online business.

Description: Cybercriminals using stolen data have targeted millions of user accounts on Alibaba’s popular Taobao shopping platform. Source: CNN Money Date: February 5, 2016 Questions for discussion: 1. Do you use any online seller-to-consumer services? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a business model?

Netflix Viewers Don’t Care About the Company’s Proxy Crackdown

Posted by & filed under business models, ethics, Netflix, online business, proxy, streaming video.

Description: Thursday, Netflix announced that it plans to crack down on people using proxy servers to access content that isn’t licensed to be streamed in their country. Source: Motherboard Date: January 15, 2016 Due to the vagaries of licensing agreements with different content providers, not every country’s Netflix catalog is the same—in some cases, it’s not… Read more »

The Next Step for Online Gaming? Simulating the World.

Posted by & filed under Gaming, global networking, industry analysis, MMO, money, online business, online gaming, programming, virtualization.

Description: For all the legions of programmers coding the movement of individual blades of grass, and all the advances in processing power and VR, the simulated worlds of online gaming still behave nothing like the real one. Source: Wired Date: January 12, 2016 “In the last few years we’ve seen the abysmal failure of games attempting… Read more »