Yesterday Barclays launched Pingit, their person to person money transfer app.
The free app from Barclays is predicted to change the way that people and small businesses transfer money by making it easy and quick putting the ability to transfer money right at your finger tips - all you have to do is put in the … Read more about ‘Would you trust your mobile with your money?’
The door is now ajar for another new step forward for the world of the internet, and it comes from ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in the form of personalised gLTDs (generic top-level domains).
Last week ICANN started taking applications from businesses to gain their own gLTD and ushered in the expansion of the restricted 22 … Read more about ‘Will we see .apple or .iCloud?’
As part of the multi-channel shopping experience analysis for this year’s Retail multichannel experience report (coming soon – watch our twitter feed for its release!) I evaluated how well companies make their customers aware of the different channels they do business through. So, for example, do high street bricks-and-mortar stores champion ecommerce channels or other … Read more about ‘Beware – security guard!’
I was reading an article the other day that talked about how Ikea were changing the way their book shelves are designed in a pre-emptive stance or maybe in reaction to the growing trend of e-books and the premise that books aren’t or wont be what people want to store in books shelves any more.
As … Read more about ‘Do designs respond to customer needs or push changes in behaviour?’
Terms like multichannel marketing and multichannel business strategy have been cropping up a lot in articles, industry news, board meetings, brainstorm sessions, presentations, workshops … you name it. This prefix has been going around for a while now and has become a must have strategy for most businesses.
What’s interesting though is actually seeing it being … Read more about ‘Multichannel this & multichannel that’
