Tag: iPhone app
How to get more coffee than you can drink
The company that powers the Starbucks iPhone app is Cashstar, a Global Prepaid Exchange member. Here is an interesting story from The Guardian G2 section about a man getting 1,000 prepaid coffees. The idea behind Stark’s card is simple: if you don’t have the money to buy a coffee, but you do have a smartphone,…
Written by
Why build a digital newsstand?
Have you thought about what will happen to all those lovely street-side news stands in Paris through the digital publishing revolution and onwards? I’m not sure either, but there are strong plans afoot for magazine sales via the web in France. On 30 June the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of…
Written by
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…
Written by
Ocado Jam
“Sorry I’m late. There was an Ocado jam in the road.” I think I may get an Ocado van so that I can leave it in the middle of the road while I’m dropping things off. Perhaps they pay a higher road tax for the privilege? This may be why Waitrose don’t use their own branded…
Written by