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71% of Airlines See Mobile as the Future of Airline Payments

The Realtime Report

photo: Wikipedia Commons. Mobile and social media will be a focus for airlines over the next few years, according to a recent survey from airline payment processing company WorldPay. Kiosks will become less important, and sales will shift to social media and mobile. And mobile looks like the future of those improvements.

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Are you on Facebook messenger?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Mark Zuckerberg (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Messages have removed from the Facebook mobile app. Facebook says that shift will allow both mobile applications to work more efficiently. Currently, mobile users outnumber Messenger users by five to one. Related posts: Mobile adverts are the way forward.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia). And, Street Bump is a mobile application that lets people improve their own neighbourhoods. A good example is Jana, a company that makes users a partner in their own data. It’s a service that helps brands engage directly with people in emerging markets via mobile phones.

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Facebook Customer Satisfaction Score Hits Record Low

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Facebook was already the lowest-scoring e-business company on the index, and this year suffered the largest decline in customer satisfaction, dropping 8% to a satisfaction level of only 61 (out of 100). On the other end of the spectrum, Google+ won a score of 78, tying with Wikipedia for first place in the Social Media category.

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9 YouTube stats to inform your marketing strategy in 2019

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YouTube reaches more 18-49-year-olds on mobile alone than any cable TV network or broadcast. Users are watching more than one billion hours of YouTube videos each day, with over half of those views coming from mobile devices at upwards of an hour each day. 4. Mobile devices dominate YouTube views, but TV is gaining.

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The Next Billion-Dollar Startup

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Believe it or not, there is a laundry list of great, new companies who had very interesting valuations prior to the Instagram acquisition, but now they're looking prettier than ever. The company makes money by charging 2.75% on every credit card transaction. I love their vision statement: no more cash registers.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #191

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Since his release from US prison (for various fraudulent uses of company money), Baron Black of Crossharbour (long story) has been penning long-winded and delightfully grouchy essays for Canada''s National Post newspaper (the right-leaning paper he founded back when he was a newspaper baron). Truly beautiful and powerful." bitcurrent.