Amazon Adds Photographic Product Search To iOS App

Amazon is raising the stakes of showrooming for retailers once again, folding its “Flow” technology, previously found in a standalone app released by its subsidiary, A9, into its main shopping app for iOS. “Flow” is visual product search…

MWC 2014: SAP’s Vending Machine with iBeacon, NFC, and Facial Detection

Check out SAP’s futuristic vending machine in the video below, on display at Mobile World Congress. It slickly implements pretty much every innovative technology you could ask for including an iBeacon, NFC…

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Constant Content POV: Hacking Cameras For Brands

Smile, you’re (probably) on camera.

Security cameras were everywhere at CES 2014 — and not just to keep an eye on the participants. Cameras have become a key component of the connected home, allowing people to visually…

Opera Gives Users Free Mobile Internet In Exchange For Ads

Opera, looking to gain a foothold in the mobile browser market, introduced a new initiative called Sponsored Web Pass, a new version of the pay-as-you-go Web Pass service that provides free Internet in exchange for watching…

Airbnb Nails Sochi Realtime Marketing

Real-time marketing is often hit or miss; Oreo was successful at hitting the nail on the head last Super Bowl, but since then many have tried and, in some cases, embarrassingly failed. Airbnb has another success story in this Olympic news cycle, after tweeting at…

Kik Develops In-App Browser

Kik’s messenger platform is making a big transformation today with an embedded browser that will let users directly share web content within messages. The growing community of users will no longer have to paste links in the messenger field; instead, they can visit the site…

Airbnb Nails Sochi Realtime Marketing

Real-time marketing is often hit or miss; Oreo was successful at hitting the nail on the head last Super Bowl, but since then many have tried and, in some cases, embarrassingly failed. Airbnb has another success story in this Olympic news cycle, after tweeting at…

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