Blog entries tagged 'Buzz'

Euronet ends MoneyGram pursuit

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E-payments processor and ATM operator Euronet Worldwide says it will not launch a new bid to acquire fund transfer outfit Moneygram due to the slowdown in the debt and equity markets.

Euronet made an unsolicited $1.65 billion bid to acquire MoneyGram in December 2007. The stock offer valued MoneyGram at $20 per share - some 40% higher than the stock's price at the time - but was rebuffed by MoneyGram.

Earlier this month MoneyGram agreed [...]

SPAMMing Versus SNARFing - What is enough, and what is not?

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This past Friday, a New Jersey man, Todd Moeller, was sentenced to 27 months in a federal prison for sending more than 1.27 million spam e-mails to AOL subscribers (See Reuters below).

Personally, I feel that it begs the question, why are people still using AOL? but more importantly, is the sentence in keeping with the crime.

Yes, it is a crime, as I understand it to benefit from illegal acts, as is the case here "breaking anti-spam laws and [...]

Are you using Technology, or is technology using you?

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Every week, a new social network, posting on a blog, microblog, or forum promotes yet another service, application, or gadget that will keep them in the hyper connected rat race.

The intent of any new technology is to improve some situation that needs improvement - OK, OK, I hear the duhs... But isn't that an obvious use for technology?

In a very non-scientific survey how many of you have ever brought home a new technological device simply on a whim [...]

Mobile Access to Social Networks

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Twitter, Pownce, PlaceShout, and Jaiku, recently acquired by Google, are gaining steam in the social media realm of mobile social networking tools that allows for snippets of conversations that fit into 140 character chunks to be proliferated to a singular community, as in Special Interest Groups or a large communal group, known as microbloggers that wants to stay connected to tens of thousands of people they have never met, nor are likely to meet.

Let me preface [...]

Google patents SMS payments system

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Over the years, with the advent of digital subscriber lines on Cell phones we all have stories of how you can use the IR port on your phone, or now Bluetooth to make payments. In February 2006 Google filed a patent for a "text message payment" system.

The abstract discusses a "computer-implemented method of effectuating an electronic on-line payment" while the patenttalks about how the system will work and why it is useful:

The payment process may occur [...]

Will Lending Club moves out of Facebook impact banking as we know it today?

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Lending club is becoming an anomaly that is taking hold with a select group of consumers that act as both the source for capital and the borrowers. As every banker knows, lending money involves certain risks the same risk that are mitigated through a bank are utilized by Lending Club, that only allow "those borrowers that can be authenticated and have prime credit scores (640+). We also use proprietary technology called LendingMatchTM to help you identify the right borrowers [...]

6 ways to generate buzz

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The author of "Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word of Mouth Marketing" provides these tips.

Most companies don't have really cool products and services that naturally spark buzz. So marketers often think that word-of-mouth marketing is not an option.

Wrong.

The missing ingredient in word-of-mouth marketing is having [...]