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Apple Debuts iBeacon Location Technology in U.S. Stores

The Realtime Report

Apple’s iBeacon technology is looking to accomplish both, and after a successful run with the MLB’s ‘At the Ballpark’ mobile app at Citifield , Apple has now installed the location technology into its own retail stores. How is iBeacon different than using GPS for geo-location? And what about privacy?

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A new survey shows that the internet is edging out doctors as people’s primary source of information on clinical trials. Further surveys have shown that 80% of these e-patients would be interested in participating in a clinical trial. Drive more pre-qualified patient referrals. Reduce overall costs.

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How Appification Is Transforming The Internet

The Realtime Report

In 2013, just 7 percent of companies had implemented a mobile app strategy, and 51 percent of companies had no plans to develop one, a FeedHenry survey found. By the end of 2017, 67 percent of small businesses will have built their own mobile apps. Concurrent with the rise of mobile internet usage has been the rise of apps.

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How to Engage Event Attendees with Pokemon Go

Ignite Social Media

Mobile Game Ever according to Survey Monkey. Image Source: Survey Monkey. Many have been quick to pivot and jump on the bandwagon, for instance, Yelp quickly added a Pokestop filter to their mobile app. Image Source: PC Mag. About four weeks ago the world was blessed with Pokémon GO, the biggest U.S. Offer Rewards.

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Is Marketing About To Get Really Creepy Or Really Good?

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We are building the next generation of location-based mobile apps that, for the first time, engage with users at the scale that personal interaction actually takes place. " If you can get beyond the marketing jargon, WiFiSLAM is, essentially, GPS for the indoors. The agency surveyed 1,874 U.S. indoor gps.

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The Most Amazing Internet Stock Of The Year

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There are sprinkles of newer thinking (like when The Huffington Post launched their GPS For The Soul app) and I'm hopeful that they can leverage everything they have with The Huffington Post coupled with their acquisition of Patch to crack the code on local (and hyper-local) content. gps for the soul. mobile advertising.

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7 Ways to Lighten Up Your Marketing and Generate Conversation

Convince & Convert

And, according to a global Nielsen Survey of Trust in Advertising conducted in September 2013 (58 countries), almost half (47%) of respondents said that humor resonates more than any content approach. Imagine a portable GPS with an identity crisis in the wake of mobile apps that render it obsolete.