StubHub has not released details of what its international expansion will entail beyond the UK
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How do social logins and sharing affect e-commerce: infographic - 2 views
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More than a third of US consumers (40%) prefer social logins to creating a new/guest account on e-commerce sites, according to a new study from Monetate. Of course this indicates that a majority of consumers prefer creating new accounts, but merchants still cannot afford to ignore social logins altogether.
StubHub hires director for UK resale site launch | TicketNews - 0 views
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he UK secondary ticket market is estimated to be worth $1 billion, which is about a quarter of the size of the United States resale market.
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estimates US ticket resale market at $4 billion and UK at $1 billion
4 mobile payments startups to watch - 1 views
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Mobile payments is a sector on the cusp of exploding. The Nilson Report recently found that 73% of smartphone owners have used their device while shopping, yet only 2% claim to have used a mobile wallet or made an in app purchase.
Startup de brasileira no Vale do Sílicio recebe aporte de US$ 8 mi - Guia de ... - 0 views
TidBITS: How to Prevent Google from Monetizing Your Face - 2 views
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How to opt-out of Google new approach for ads using your face
Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves | MIT Technology Review - 1 views
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Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”Elaborating later on Negroponte’s hacking comment, Ed McNierney, OLPC’s chief technology officer, said that the kids had gotten around OLPC’s effort to freeze desktop settings. “The kids had completely customized the desktop—so every kids’ tablet looked different. We had installed software to prevent them from doing that,” McNierney said. “And the fact they worked around it was clearly the kind of creativity, the kind of inquiry, the kind of discovery that we think is essential to learning.”
Rio bets it can become Brazil's Silicon Beach | Reuters - 0 views
The Facebook Stats Game: Brazil Has The Highest Active Reach; Bangkok Tops The List Of ... - 1 views
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Brazil has the highest active reach of Internet consumers using the social network from home/work computers. Some 38.1 million Brazilians visited Facebook during March 2012, equivalent to 76.7 percent of all people who were active online that month from home and work computers in the market
Don't Let the Minimum Win Over the Viable - David Aycan - Harvard Business Review - 3 views
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The prospect of pivoting down the line can encourage entrepreneurs to pursue a passion to build without evaluating their hypotheses up front
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But successful ventures don't just dive into a single direction, confident that if they're wrong they can drastically change course. The reality is that a single concept is a collection of variables expressed as a whole. Some are core to the vision, while others are educated guesses.
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Sketching or mocking up experiential prototypes and then testing them with consumers or potential partners, while also explicitly jotting down your operating and business assumptions and using them to discuss the business with industry experts, allows you both to pick a promising route to invest in the development sprint and to pivot with confidence.
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