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ViVOtech brings NFC-based mobile marketing software to retailers

01/19/201201/19/2012 Jesse Collins

ViVOtech – a software and systems company that uses near field communication (NFC) based technology – used their time at the NRF Annual Convention & Expo to launch their ViVOtouch mobile marketing software platform. This newly unveiled product is designed to provide retailers with the ability to offer consumers personalized content, loyalty programs, and discount opportunities, as it provides a real-time, interactive NFC-based shopping experience for customers whose mobile devices are enabled with this technology. By using ViVOtouch, mall operators, retailers, discount coupon services, and service providers are capable of…

Digby announces release of new Localpoint platform

01/18/201201/18/2012 Jesse Collins

Leading company in multi-channel mobile commerce and engagement, Digby, has just launched its new mobile platform, Localpoint, which provides location-based marketing capabilities, as well as mobile commerce and analytics for top companies and brands in their industries. The platform uses powerful web-like analytics within mobile commerce efforts, as well as in the actual physical location of a brand’s store, in addition to geo-targeted mobile messaging tools. This lets Localpoint provide brands with the ability to influence, appeal to, comprehend, and own, the relationship they have with their customers across the…

CES 2012 reveals mobile commerce retail experience from Alcatel-Lucent and Verizon

01/17/201201/17/2012 L. Green

The annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held in Las Vegas and offered a great deal of insight about what has been learned and what is to come in the industry, including an announcement about a partnership between Alcatel-Lucent and Verizon Wireless, which will bring about a new form of m-commerce app that is designed to help consumers to save money while also assisting retailers. At the show, the companies showed a number of demos that were interconnected in order to show the impact of video conferencing, 3D telepresence,…

What the new year holds for tech and commerce

01/15/201201/15/2012 Jennifer Goula

Last year, the technology world reached a critical point where the world saw dramatic changes toward mobile marketing, collaborative consumption, social commerce, empowered individuals, and education sector disruptions. The predictions for 2012 indicate that this year will be even more exciting than last year, across the board. Among the main points of focus in tech this year is mobile. Absolutely everything in the mobile world is at the cusp of significant and meaningful changes, and they will be growing extremely rapidly because of the global mobile connectivity levels that are…

McDonald’s jumps in at the start of the mobile geotargeted marketing trend

12/31/201112/31/2011 Jennifer Goula

The McDonald’s fast food giant company has started a promotion of its hot beverages to grow its Hot McCafe sales and traffic in-store, through the use of a new mobile ad campaign. The restaurant chain is using mobile ads that are geotargeted to promote the products. They use the iPhone application from Pandora. The ads can identify the location of the smartphone user and tell them the distance to the closest McDonald’s restaurant. The mobile advertisement from McDonald’s informs smartphone users that any hot chocolate or small hot McCafe costs…