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What is Socializing Business

The power of social media, technology and even more recent developments in gaming has created enormous opportunities to transform the user experience of many product categories. The concept of ‘socializing business’ first coined by Mailman is meant to capture the essence of this phenomenon.READ»

Follow-Up: MasterCard Is Killing U.S. Credit Card Magnetic Strips, While Pushing NFC Tech

MasterCard is finally pushing chip-and-PIN credit cards in the U.S. around a decade after the tech took off in Europe. It's the end of the magnetic strip, and the last gasp for your plastic credit card before the revolution comes.READ»

General Mills Wants Your Ideas For Its Next Cereal Game And Cake App

General Mills is moving its open innovation efforts to the digital world. With G-WIN Digital, the food company is looking for your gaming and mobile ideas.READ»

Wake Up! Your Company Is Now In The Software Business

If software is destined to transform an industry, it doesn’t logically follow that established market participants must sit back and watch as software companies digest and destroy their businesses, or that they must cede operational independence and market share to technology pure plays. Instead, they can and should fight victimhood by becoming software companies themselves. READ»

Be The Steve Jobs Of Your Company

Steve Jobs isn’t just a CEO, he’s an idea, and an idea that all companies should embrace. READ»

No Ghost in the Machine: The Case for a Social Renaissance, Part 2

Are the next innovations in social dependent on first upending our very premises and expectations?READ»

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The Stampede: Razorfish Reveals Latin America's Untapped Digital Consumer

In an exclusive interview with Fast Company, Razorfish researcher Joe Crump gives the lowdown on how to reach Latin America's vast, digitally savvy consumer segment.READ»

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Technology Changes the Face of Politicking

Pols cast votes for Gowalla as the next social-media game changer.READ»

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Netflix, Apple, and Now Microsoft All Say Nay to Blu-ray

Sorry, Sony: The days of physical media are just about over. Microsoft, Netflix, and Apple all know it, and are planning for it.READ»

Lose Your Privacy

Loss of privacy is the price of convenience. Someday the tradeoff won't even be questioned.READ»

The Great App Bubble

When I recently received my new iPhone 4, I took great delight in organizing my apps into folders. Then I used it for a couple of days and realized, not counting pre-loaded Apple software, I only use five apps. Why am I wasting time collecting and organizing all these apps? We're in an app bubble.READ»

Bank of America and Visa to Test Smartphone-as-Credit-Card System

Wallets. Who needs 'em? Bank of America is teaming up with Visa for a smartphone-as-credit-card pilot test in New York next month.READ»

Almost Genius: What the iPad Really Needs? Velcro

A new video shows how the iPad could well replace every device in your home.READ»

Rupert Murdoch Calls for the iPad to Kill Paper-and-Ink Newspapers

Rupert Murdoch's banging his "Google is a thief!" drum again in an interview at a National Press Club event. Then he praised the iPad. Then things got really freaky. Murdoch, News King, would like the physical newspaper to die.The ...READ»

Ad Dollars Go Digital

Dust off that copy of HTML For Dummies. (Or, rather, download a copy to your e-reader.) The future of employment may be virtual. READ»

Random House Gets Serious About Digital Content With Massive Reorganization

Random House today announced a huge reorganization aimed at moving the company from its analog roots to its possible digital future. Details as to how this will affect the hydra-headed company's output aren't exactly clear, but there ...READ»

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Belgian Beer Brand’s Brilliant Use of Crowdsourcing

Belgian beer brand Vedett has cleverly demonstrated how to interact with its customers. It has asked drinkers to submit a photo of themselves through their website, with a lucky 10,000 becoming “instantly famous” by appearing ...READ»

Marketing Manager and Web Based Communication Software

A marketing manager has to stay connected to be effective in their jobs, however constantly interrupting other team members to collect information, or to provide updates on routine tasks can be a burden that slows down a company’s ...READ»