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Pepsi's social vending lets users buy drinks for friends remotely - Springwise
A report on Mashable claims ‘a PepsiCo rep says Facebook or other social media integration “are Phase 2 — being explored as it evolves’’. With or without any further development, this remains a fine example of an established brand innovating with social media. (Related: Pharmacy vending machine offers location-based specials through Foursquare
Google's Display Advertising Strategy Revealed!
The big challenge for Google (GOOG) is that its search revenues will surpass $25 billion this year, so for shareholders, any new business's revenues will look tiny in comparison.
Un nuovo social network mette in contatto le imprese alla ricerca di manodopera e gli utenti che, svolgendo piccoli compiti e inviando immagini, possono guadagnare fino a 90 dollari. TomTom lo usa per affinare le sue mappe di MATTEO DEL LUCCHESE PICCOLI lavori in cambio di un piccolo compenso. L'idea viene da lontano (si pensi alla paghetta che i ragazzini prendono per buttare la spazzatura o togliere le foglie dal vialetto), ma nell'era dei videofonini si declina in maniera inedita: Gigwalk è un social network che permette ai suoi membri di guadagnare soldi compiendo attraverso iPhone semplici incarichi, richiesti direttamente dalle aziende interessate.
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How can Hollrr.com pay bloggers for spotting new products? | Board of Innovation
Hollrr.com is a very interesting business concept and that for many reasons. First of all, Hollrr gives regular consumers more tools and power in the business ecosystem. Secondly, it sets a perfect example how businesses are evolving when embracing new currency transactions as descibed in our 10 building blocks model .
10 Business Models That Rocked 2010
The business models that defined 2010 visualised. If you think there are better/strong/more inspiring innovation cases on the use of business models feel free to give us a tip! More...
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The Mesh by Lisa Gansky - Why the Future of Business is Sharing
author of The Mesh Lisa is, at heart, a marketect and "impact junky" with a strong interest in breaking the edges of formerly happy business models and bringing together not-so-likely characters in the form of new offerings, teams and partnerships.
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We’ve featured countless online exchanges over the years that connect buyers and sellers of a wide variety of goods. Zeroing in on the agricultural domain there’s been Eggzy , for example, targeting home chicken farmers, as well as Veggie Trader and Local Dirt , to name just a few. The latest spotting, however, is an international agricultural marketplace based in Russia that aims to help both companies and individuals around the world market their agricultural goods. Whether it’s livestock feed, forage crops, timber, land, livestock, produce, personnel or equipment, Farmbook gives buyers and sellers of such items a way to find each other and connect, regardless of where they live. Participants begin by registering with the free site and then posting the details of the products or services they want to buy or sell, including any photos or videos. Companies can also simply create and post an electronic business card.
Connecting buyers and sellers of agricultural goods & services - Springwise
Trailmeme is a new kind of end-to-end publishing model built around a technology incubated at XRCW. The technology allows you to tell complex stories with hyperlinks, by creating visual maps that users can navigate in both Web-like and book-like ways. Our vision is to create an end-to-end new media publishing pipeline that extends from valuable collections of Web content at one end to all types of consumption media at the other, ranging from computers, tablets, smartphones and eBook readers to on-demand print.
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Startup Helps Small Restaurants Get Online
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark . If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . Name: BistroSquare Richie Ward’s family has been in the restaurant business for three generations.Da oggi gli MP3 si comprano al supermercato - Gizmodo IT - Il gadget weblog
Nell’imprevedibile arena della musica digitale ogni tanto compaiono giocatori che mai ci saremmo aspettati di vedere. Questa volta è il turno di Esselunga . Avete capito bene, la catena di supermercati ha appena lanciato il suo MusicStore , in partnership con Play.me di Dada .What is your business model?
“What is your business model?” is a question I get asked often ever since I started my own business in 2006. Initially, I used to go blank as I really did not have anything to say other than the fact that I was into “Consulting”. In Indian context, “consulting” is almost equivalent to “training” (This is something I realized over last 2 years). I had not even defined my first training offering then.Recent research into international trade has highlighted the role of trade costs in determining the geography of trade. We propose that the notion of comparative advantage has to be expanded to include different capacities to transact and the pertinent factor endowments (organizational and social capital). In a ‘transactional regime’, sets of transaction-enabling tasks (TETs) are arranged to overcome a given pattern of trade resistances. We argue that transactional regimes impact the flows and contents of information that guide the decision making of producers and therefore also shape the resulting international division of labour. Transactional regimes can be classified according to a three-dimensional state space of trade resistances covering certain most generic aspects of information.
Transactional Innovation and the De-Commoditization of the Brazilian Coffee Trade by Pierpaolo Andriani, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
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