LevelUp goes coast-to-coast for loyalty and mobile payments

Mobile Shopping

LevelUp has announced that it will be providing service to twice as many cities, making it available to customers across the country, in addition to the release of a new Android and iPhone app. LevelUp is a mobile solution that combines loyalty and rewards programs with payments solutions in a single seamless system for use by consumers and merchants. This means that users will be able to purchase products and services with their mobile devices, while collecting rewards and loyalty benefits through merchant programs. The LevelUp system debuted in March…

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Electronic invites get injected with high technology

Invitere App

Electronic invites were all the rage when the Internet was still young, but have fallen out of fashion as technology has evolved. Now, sending event invites to friends and family over the Internet has been streamlined by sites like Facebook, but iapps24, a mobile application developer, is looking to make electronic invites more innovative. The company has developed a new app for the iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms that uses augmented reality to provide invitees detailed directions to the location of events. Events of any scale can be difficult to…

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Augmented reality app seeks to make drivers safer

iOnRoad App

Augmented reality is getting a lot of attention for its uses in gaming. So much so that the technology’s practical uses are often overlooked. Today, AR has advanced enough to be useful in daily activities, keeping true to its name by enhancing the physical world. Picitup, a technology company based in Israel, has launched a new AR product called iOnRoad. The program seeks to apply AR technology in a practical way that will help make people become safer drivers.  iOnRoad is a mobile application available for Android smart phones. Picitup…

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The mobile payment race…who will be the first?

Google

Google, along with several banks and other companies, may have beat group venture Isis to the mobile payment punch. Google, MasterCard, Sprint, Citigroup and transaction processor First Data will introduce the mobile payment service this summer in New York and San Francisco. Google has all ready gotten retailers Macy’s Inc, American Eagle Outfitters Inc, and Subway to join in with them and offer customers loyalty programs and discount offers. Google’s payment service will utilize MasterCard’s PayPass technology. The app is downloadable for Android phones. If Google and company can get…

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