Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Google driving its business
3 January 2012 | 
Author "A key question is whether Google is using its market power to steer users to its own web products or secondary services and discriminating against other websites with which it competes," Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee wrote.
via BBC News – Google search home page revamp promotes other services.
I do hope so! They are a business after all.
Google jumps into online-law business with Rocket Lawyer
Traditional lawyers may not like it, but venture capitalists are pouring money into one of the last industries to resist commoditisation on the Web. Google Ventures today announced it is part of a group that infused $18.5 million into Rocket Lawyer, which bills itself as the “fastest growing online legal service.”
via Google Jumps Into Online-Law Business With Rocket Lawyer – Forbes.
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Ticketfriend launches end-to-end contactless ticketing system
A young sales technology company has launched a new ticketing solution allowing users to buy and redeem tickets through a tap of their smartphone.
Dublin, Ireland-based ticketfriend, a ticket sales and event promotion company, has since 2009 provided a space for users to buy, sell and promote tickets to events through their Web site. With the refinement of near field communications (NFC) technology over the years, the company has made a decision to move into mobile contactless ticketing, and it has just launched a new app specifically for use with Google’s Android operating system. NFC allows users to tap their smartphones to another device to make a purchase or exchange information.
via Ticketfriend launches end-to-end contactless ticketing system | TicketNews.
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Posted in Marketing, Music marketing | Tags: Android, Dublin, event promotion, Google, near field communications, NFC, smartphone, technology, ticket sales, Ticketfriend, ticketing solution, TicketNews | No Comments »
Jack Dorsey’s Square raises US$100m
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s technology company Square, which enables e-payments anywhere, has raised US$100m in Series C funding, valuing the company at more than US$1bn.
The marketplace for mobile device payments is beginning to open up and last week Google chairman Eric Schmidt said the market could be worth US$1trn within a few years as various platforms, including near field communications (NFC) and iOS-styled browser payments, make it easier and simpler for people to buy goods and services electronically.
Posted in Marketing | Tags: e-payments, Eric Schmidt, Google, iOS-styled, Jack Dorsey’s, mobile payments, near field communications, NFC, payments, Square, Twitter | No Comments »
Google planning payment test in New York and San Francisco
Google Inc. plans to start testing a mobile-payment service at stores in New York and San Francisco within four months, letting shoppers use their phones to ring up purchases, two people familiar with the project said.
The company will pay for installation of thousands of special cash-register systems from VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) at merchant locations, said one of the people, who requested anonymity because Google’s plans haven’t been made public. The registers would accept payments from mobile phones equipped with so-called near-field-communication technology.
via Google Said to Plan Payment Test in New York, San Francisco – Bloomberg.
So, who said Google were not a competitor in the payments sector? As I’ve been saying for a while, Facebook, Google and PayPal are all players that could, and probably will, disrupt and transform the payments market. Their ability to work in the prepaid sector is of real interest.
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Posted in Marketing | Tags: Face, Facebook, Google, mobile payment, Near Field Communication, New York, NFC, payments, PayPal, San Francisco, VeriFone | No Comments »
Mobile payments and pickpockets
Google to power your mobile wallet?
The volume of mobile payments — buying boots via Zappos iPhone app, for example, or paying bills — is expected to climb to $214 billion by 2015, up from $16 billion in 2010, according to Aite Group, another financial services research firm.
And pay-by-phone is only going to get easier as our devices come embedded with Near Field Communication (NFC) devices that allow you to pay for your morning latte by waving your phone at the cash register.
via Your smartphone could be your most dangerous possession – Jan. 11, 2011.
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Posted in Marketing | Tags: Aite Group, Google, iPhone app, mobile payments, mobile wallet, Near Field Communication, NFC, pay-by-phone, phone, smartphone, Zappos | No Comments »
Will Ask Jeeves ask.co.uk make it to 11 years old?
I have to say I had forgotten all about the search engine Ask Jeeves www.ask.co.uk. I was on The Guardian news website and I tripped over a story about Ask Jeeves being 10 years old. Well there’s a tail of survival!
So what do you think the chances of Ask still being there in another 10 years? I would want good odds to bet a fiver on that one, especially as their idea of a 10th birthday promotion is to use a bunch of people I’d forgotten all about: Nicky Clarke, Sarah Beeny and Russell Grant.
Good synergy though…well done. Perhaps I should ask Google who they are?
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