Brazilian Startup PicPay Develops Mobile Payment Application
Brazilian mobile payment startup, PicPay, is revolutionizing the way Southern Americans make purchases. PicPay has developed an application that allows customers to save their credit card information and make online purchases by simply scanning online QR codes with the camera on their smartphone or tablet.
Although PicPay is currently only available in Portuguese, on Android and iPhone apps, the company has the funds to expand their fast growing company. The company has acquired $1.2 million from its co-founders and unknown angel investors. To keep the ball…
Running Daily Deals Abroad (Part 2)
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne. Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training.
I initially wrote about the daily deal industry abroad and have since been traveling in Europe and have taken notice of a few key things about the deal industry…
My first and foremost observation is that when traveling abroad, daily deal sites do not cater to foreigners. Redeeming coupons and vouchers as a local…
Running Daily Deals Abroad
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne. Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and training.
I am traveling in Paris and Amsterdam for a Workation (part work / part vacation) and one of my objectives is to closely monitor and take note of the workings of daily deals and coupon sites in Europe. We have noticed over the past couple of years that the demand to start a daily deal site in countries outside of the…
PayPal – Barriers in the Brazilian Market
Two years after expanding into Brazilian territory, PayPal is booming in the world’s fifth largest country. Still, the money-transferring service is falling short of its initial expectations.
PayPal’s success in the Brazilian market has primarily been limited to the retail sector. Other levels of business have been elusive in the nation of rainforests and beaches, where the San Jose-based commerce giant has been unable to tap its primary medium: the internet.
Numerous issues have caused Brazil to lag in the realm of e-commerce, all…
Shopinterest Proposes to Rope in Pinterest Users for its Portal
For all you Pinterest users who till now were content with uploading images and displaying them on the site: A Colombian top level domain seller by the name Shopinterest is proposing to tie up with Pinterest and bridge the gap between display of images and selling them on the internet.
How the company plans to do this is by getting venture capital funding for its startup venture and then tying up with Pinterest to enable those of you who have uploaded pictures…
Groupon Touts Advantages of 48-Country Presence
Groupon, which has seen a drop in the value of its shares, a slowdown in the growth of revenue and numerous consumer and retailer complaints, is now touting the advantages of its presence in 48 countries.
Rajen Ruparell, Groupon’s vice president of global sales, said that its presence in 48 countries was a distinct marketing advantage. Companies desiring to have a footprint in new markets can use Groupon’s services to establish themselves in these countries.
“That really is where we have added…
Shipments of Media Tablets set to Surpass 100m this Year
The global market for tablet devices continues to expand. Media tablet shipments reached approximately 25 million units in the second quarter. According to ABI Research, total shipments were up by 36% quarter-over-quarter and 77% year-over-year (YoY).
Apple iPad shipments represented around 70% of worldwide volumes. The company accounted for 17 million tablet shipments for the April-June quarter.
Samsung followed the leader with 8% share.
Overall, the total shipments of media tablets is projected to cross 100 million units this year. Taking…
Mobile Payments Coming Soon to Every McDonald’s Menu?
While most crawl before they walk when it comes to mobile payments, fast food giant McDonalds is rumored to be planning a comprehensive deployment of a mobile payment platform that would likely come as a direct result of the hamburger emperor’s burgeoning relationship with PayPal.
As Daily Deal Media reported Saturday, McDonalds is planning to “test” a mobile payments service featuring PayPal in France. Reuters indicated over the weekend that customers would be able to place their orders via “smartphones through a McDonald’s…
Is Social Media Set for Decline?
Hear that sound? According to Jesse Colombo at Seeking Alpha, it’s the sound of the social media bubble finally popping. Since January Colombo, among others, has warned of a 90s-esque series of bubbles he termed the “CCC Aches” which stands for China, Commodities, Canada, Australia, College, Healthcare, Emerging markets and Social media.
Economists have claimed that we’re on a road to recovery as the housing market has crept back up from its scary depths. But Colombo claims that the aforementioned bubbles have been…
Outlook.com: Microsoft Tries for the Umpteenth Time to Compete with Gmail
Try, Try, and Try until you succeed! This is the motto that Microsoft is employing against the popular web based mail service, Gmail. Not that the company has had success in its efforts to dislodge Gmail. Far from that, its previous attempts at offering alternatives to Gmail have fallen flat on their feet. Surprising when one considers that it had the pioneer of all web based mail offerings, Hotmail in its portfolio. And when one thinks of the Nineties when Hotmail was the rage all…
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