Want To Meet Apple CEO Tim Cook And Support Human Rights? $600,000+ Please.
It is now cheaper to purchase a Ferrari than it is to have coffee with Apple CEO, Tim Cook.
Bids for that cafe “date” went on safe last Wednesday through charity bidding site – Charitybuzz. The meeting was originally valued at $50,000, but now stands upwards of $605,000 as of the publication of this article. Currently, the highest bidder is user “rwilliams2496″ who has beaten out 84 other bids to hold the tops spot. The bidding war reached $160,000 by…
Groupon Malaysia Donates RM219,597 to Fund School Meals
Following the conclusion of an online fundraising effort for World Food Program (WFP) School Meals activities in Asia, Groupon Malaysia has donated US$72,362 (RM219,597) to the United Nations WFP. The money raised will fund nearly 300,000 school meals to underprivileged girls in 14 countries.
The campaign named “Donate RM10 to Provide School Meals for Girls in South-East Asia” in collaboration with United Nations-WRP ran for nearly two weeks and caught the eye of 10,000 online individual Groupon subscribers from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore,…
Groupon’s Stock Stumbles
Shares of daily deals website Groupon Inc. tumbled in trading on Thursday. The stock fell to an intra-day low of $6.07 before finishing the day 4.23% lower at $6.12 on volume of 8.87 million. Despite the sharp decline, Groupon’s shares have gained nearly 26% so far in 2013, outperforming the broad market. The stock, however, is still trading more than 59% below its 52-week high. The stock is still trading above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages. The stock’s MACD, however, suggests…
Is Amazon Entering The Mobile Payments Market?
Amazon may be introducing a mobile payments solution similar to PayAnywhere, GoPayment and Square.
According to recent filings with United States Patent and Trademark Office, Amazon’s “Anonymous mobile payments” platform is described as a system that would allow mobile users to complete transactions without revealing personal details to the retailer.
Amazon will have plenty of competition in the mobile payments market and have a difficult time catching up to some already established and popular options. In addition, it has…
Swipely Adds New Marketing Tools for Local Merchants
Providence, RI, April 11, 2013 – Swipely, the simple way for local merchants to accept payments, understand customers and grow revenue, today unveiled its “Spring ’13” product release. The new release adds features to measure marketing campaigns and manage online reputation, amidst significant growth on its platform.
Local merchants struggle to use online marketing to grow sales. Swipely’s new campaign insights tool answers the age-old question, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half?” Swipely…
PayPal Co-Founder Launches New Mobile Payment Start Up – Affirm
Matt Levchin, who is widely known as one of the co-founders (along with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk) and for his role as the former chief technology officer of PayPal, has launched a new mobile payments start up – Affirm.
This is one of Levchin’s first projects emerging from his San Francisco tech incubator Hard, Valuable, Fun – HVF, which he began after selling off his prior company, Slide to Google in August 2010. Levchin left Google the following year in August of 2011.
While Affirm likely looks as if it is a…
MWC 2013 Highlights The Power Of Partnerships In Mobile
Hot gadgets aside, some of biggest stories to emerge out of Mobile World Congress 2013 have focused squarely on powerful new relationships across the mobile landscape. Since Monday, scores of announcements have been made regarding freshly-forged partnerships that will drive mobile payments, mobile advertising, and mobile commerce to new heights this year and for as far as the eye can see.
Foursquare’s integration with MasterCard and Visa to offer special discounts for card holders when checked in to specific locations has been one of the…
YouTube May Be Launching Paid Subscription Channels This Spring
YouTube may currently preparing for the launch of a new website feature this spring – paid subscriptions. According to a report by Adage, individual channels on the video platform site will try to raise the interest of advertisers to look at different ways to reach customers, rather than with traditional television.
Speculation is that YouTube has been in talks with multiple producers and asked them to brainstorm on possible channels they would like to create and charge users for access to. Currently, the…
Breadcrumb Launches AirLift, Point-Of-Sale Hardware Protection for Restaurants and Bars
Breadcrumb, which was obtained by Groupon last year, announced “Airlift” a protection plan that offers restaurants and bars an overnight emergency parts replacement service along with an extended warranty place for iPad POS systems.
Airlift will help protect businesses for a two year period by limiting the application’s down time with a hassle-free part replacement for accidental damage and hardware defects.
For an extra fee of approximately $100 per terminal purchased from the Breadbox store, AirLift provides a low-cost option for businesses to protect their…
Groupon Payment’s Merchant App To Rival Square, PayAnywhere
Groupon recently unveiled Groupon Payments, a mobile payment competitor against businesses like Square and PayAnywhere. The service allows merchants to accept credit card payments in an easy and secure fashion through the use of a 3.5mm-based card swiper.
The service, made by Groupon to expand and add diversity to its current business, can be downloaded and activated in a matter of minutes. Groupon Payments first launched in September 2012 but was only accessible to iOS devices. This new and…
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