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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

The cross-channel customer is also a multi-device consumer and smart phones play an increasing role in communication, networking, social media usage and entertainment. Or that more people own a smart phone than use Facebook? The consumer smart phone boom will continue to put increasing pressure on 3G networks.

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Tracking, Personalization And Screams Of Privacy

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According to the Business Insider article: "Nomi's team gives retailers a snippet of code that lets wireless routers listen for nearby smart phone signals. The wireless routers can detect unique Media Access Control (MAC) codes from smart phones and then collect non-invasive data about customers in real-time.

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7 Mobile Marketing Stats That Will Blow Your Mind

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This type of behavior will ultimately lead to an increase in the importance of online reputation management, fair pricing and transparency from retail outlets. Smart retailers (like Target) are recognizing this trend and incentivizing the use of mobile phones within the store with discounts and coupons targeted at mobile users.

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Small Business Owners Hopping Mad Over Amazon’s New App

Small Business Mavericks

This has caused small business owners to complain to the Retail Industry Leaders Association about the unfair competition. The price checker app will check multiple items simply by scanning the bar code, taking a picture or speaking out loud what the product is. Many business owners see it as an unfair advantage to Amazon.

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Member nations were given a December 5 deadline to ratify the agreement.

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Repurchase agreements come in three different forms: In the books of the borrower, the bonds will be shown as an asset and the cash received from the lender would be shown under the liability side as a Borrowing under repurchase agreement The second contract has the same characteristics as contract 1, except that the repurchase price is 3,700,000.

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