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The Microsoft Punchard: Bing Wants to Bring Loyalty Back to Daily Deals
Daily deals weren’t much of a category two years ago and the oversaturation of the market today threatens to push it back into obscurity once more. One of the reasons why many vendors are tired of Groupon, LivingSocial and similar programs is that they don’t actually generate a lot of repeat business. Consumers just move on to the next deal instead. Microsoft wants to change this. As part of the full launch of its Bing Deals daily deals aggregation service today, the company is also rolling out a loyalty program called the Microsoft Punchard Program.
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Facebook Announces Major Changes at F8: Here Are All the Announcements
Facebook kicked off its F8 developer conference with a large number of product announcements by the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives and [...]
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The Need for Less Speed: Firefox to Get Extended Support Releases
Ever since Firefox switched to its rapid release process after the launch of Firefox 4, users in corporate environments have been complaining about how often Mozilla now [...]
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Mobile Gmail Gets Support for Multiple Sign-Ins
Google just launched a few small but very useful updates for the mobile version of Gmail. Smartphone users who use the web to access Gmail will now be able to easily switch between multiple accounts (say your private Google Apps and your personal Gmail account). On the web, that’s been a standard feature of Gmail for quite a while now, but wasn’t available on the mobile version yet.
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Disruptive Banking: A First Peek at BankSimple
The Internet has surely brought some major disruption to how banks do business, but there is still a lot of potential for disruption in that market. BankSimple [...]
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