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Amazon Free Video Could Hook Non-Prime Audience

Amazon plans to introduce a new ad-supported streaming video service early next year, according to a report last week in the New York Post, which cited unnamed sources. The new service will be separate from Amazon's Prime membership offering, which already includes a video-streaming component. ...

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SMS: It’s Not Just for Marketing Any More

There appears to be a new trend emerging in the enterprise mobile engagement space, according to OpenMarket ...

Uber Exec Floats Digging Up Dirt on Journalists

Uber Senior Vice President of Business Emil Michael last week said, in comments he apparently thought were off the record, that the company should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to investigate the personal lives of journalists who reported negatively on the company. ...

Salesforce1 Lightning Connect Aims to End the Long CRM Integration Nightmare

Salesforce.com has unveiled Salesforce1 Lightning Connect, a new component for its Lightning Platform as a Service for mobile developers, which it introduced last month. ...

Money Makes the World Go Round on Singles Day

Nov. 11 is Singles Day in China -- aka the "11.11 Shopping Festival" -- and the country's millions of unhitched celebrated the event by spending some quality time with online retail giant Alibaba. ...

Texting Drivers Willing to Play With Fire

Texting while driving is dangerous. We know that intuitively; we know it because the statistics say so; we know it because we have seen any number of public service announcements warning of its hazards. ...

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Webrooming Takes the Sting Out of Showrooming

Showrooming, the bane of retailers, is the consumer practice of visiting a brick-and-mortar store to test out merchandise -- say a new TV or electronic gadget -- and then buying the same model online at a cheaper price. ...

Monster Tiptoes Onto Twitter

Monster Worldwide last week announced that it was rolling out a beta of a social recruitment ad platform, starting this Thursday ...

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Pegasystems Glides Through Social, Mobile Channels

Pegasystems has unveiled a major upgrade to its customer service application, offering new functionality both at its customer-facing end and internally for reps who use it. ...

Take a Nano Pill and Call Google in the Morning?

Google is in the early stages of developing a nanoparticle-covered pill to detect cancer and other serious health problems such as heart disease, according to Andrew Conrad, head of the life sciences team at Google X, who revealed the project last week at The Wall Street Journal's WSJDLive conference ...

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Apple Pay May Leave CurrentC in the Dust

Apple's debut of Apple Pay has been more than a little bumpy, and the company may be in for some additional negative press about its competitive position before the dust settles. ...

Facebook Aims to Deliver Real News to Mobile News Feeds

Facebook has been meeting with publishers to discuss better ways of collaborating, according to an article published this week in The New York Times ...

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Tact Premium Goes With the Flow

Tactile, developer of the free mobile enterprise app Tact for Salesforce CRM, has debuted Tact Premium, a paid version with ramped-up functionality. ...

Amazon’s Cold Fire Phone Inflames Investors

Amazon on Thursday posted a net loss of US$437 million for the third quarter, or 95 cents per diluted share. For the same period in 2013, it posted a net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per diluted share. ...

Some Apple Pay Users Get Double-Billing and Double-Talk

Shortly after Apple Pay's Monday launch, some eager early users were unsettled to see duplicate charges on their accounts. ...

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Aviso Helps Sales Managers ID the Real Deals

Aviso, a two-and-a-half-year old startup, has launched its first product, Aviso Insights. It is a sales forecasting analytics tool that uses machine learning and portfolio management frameworks to help sales managers answer a fundamental question: What deals can I expect to close this quarter? ...

Whisper Shouts Denials of Tracking Allegations

Whisper, an app that purports to send messages anonymously, has been tracking the location of its users, including those who have turned off their geolocation feature, The Guardian reported last week. ...

Debate Simmers Over Facebook, Apple Egg-Freezing Benefit

Facebook and Apple, companies already known for their generous employee benefits, are raising the bar even more by paying for egg-freezing services for their female employees. Facebook began covering up to US$20,000 in these expenses at the start of the year, and Apple will beginning covering them at the start of next, NBC News reported this week.

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SalesMesh Bridges Rep-Corporate Information Gap

AppMesh, a 2-year old provider of a mobile CRM application, recently came out of the gate with the second iteration of its flagship product, SalesMesh. Version 2.0 is a major leap in functionality for the app that builds on the cofounders' vision of developing a personal sales system for the sales rep. ...

Wireless Carriers Could Take a Shine to Ad-Blocking

Shine Technologies, an Israeli startup with an office in Sunnyvale, California, may well upend the Net neutrality issue with the launch of AdSight, an ad technology product in development. ...

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