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Daily Makeover's proprietary facial recognition technology lets women upload a picture of themselves (or use a model's picture) and then try on makeup, fashion and hair styles virtually. Women can try on specific brands of makeup, clothes and more in all different shades and styles. The site powers more than 20 million makeovers monthly.

"The Mini could help expand the overall tablet audience, which tends to be more affluent than the overall mobile audience. "We know from industry studies that 56% of tablet owners make over $75,000, and 46% have made a purchase after interacting with a tablet ad, so this creates a new, potentially very lucrative frontier for digital marketers," noted Kurt Hawks, general manager of mobile ad network Greystripe.

Amazon's same-day delivery service Prime Now, which is today available in more than a couple of dozen U.S. metros, is experimenting with another type of service that goes beyond traditional purchases: it's offering consumers the ability to test drive cars. Specifically, Amazon has partnered with Hyundai to offer test drives of the 2017 Elantra through a new program called "Prime Now. Drive Now."

DoorDash started off as a restaurant delivery company - but, like many on-demand delivery companies, its ambitions are certainly much higher than that. And it's taking one step beyond food delivery today by adding the ability to purchase alcohol through DoorDash.

 46 percent of the respondents who shopped online within the past six months first checked out the product at their local retail stores and then made the purchase online walmart led at 41% and target at 25%

Zeebox still hasn't launched in the US, but shortly after the London-based social TV company scored a large round of funding they're launching clickable TV ads across their platform. Their press release reads, "in a world first, UK users will be able to purchase products advertised on TV through their tablet or smartphone in real time." Zeebox seems to be one of the only major players in the UK giving them the opportunity to really build a great product in their market and then come to the US with a fine-tuned model and case studies. On the other hand, Shazam, Viggle and the other US social TV startups are working with brands to finally figure out how to make ads useful.

Taking just the use of paid content on tablets in Q4 2011, Nielsen found that in the U.S., a majority of tablet owners have already paid for downloaded music, books and movies, with 62 percent, 58 percent and 51 percent respectively saying they have already made such purchases. The one area that really fell down in the U.S. was news, where only 19 percent said they had ever paid to read news on their tablets.

"The study, which aimed to analyze consumer shopping behavior from the point of sale backwards, found that 31 percent of shoppers used YouTube to shop for apparel. And, 37 percent watched a video on a retail website to make a purchase."

a brwoser add-on that keeps an eye out on prices for products you want. will notify you when it drops to a sale price you would purchase it for

"By enabling developers to sell physical goods inside of games, it will not only open up a new way for them to monetize their applications, but it will also be a key point of differentiation for Amazon in going up against Apple and Google, which don't have physical distribution capabilities."

Check-in and leave gift cards for Clingle or FB friends at a location

Pulls you to mobile site, but you can't make purchases there and must go in-store.

Those who receive gifts must check in at the business with the Giftly app on their smart phone, and purchase whichever items or services they choose, after which they are immediately reimbursed by Giftly.

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Use the app to scan a barcode (or search for the item if you don't want to go in-store) and then purchase the item through amazon (via that app, another amazon app, or amazon.com) for 5% off. Select item categories and only Dec 10th. 

In November and December, the number of online transactions increased by 37 percent, and overall sales jumped by 25 percent. But the average ticket size declined by 9 percent, according to Chase Paymentech, which analyzes information across the top 50 e-commerce retailers.

watch capable of RFID payments.  it has a mastercard paypass technology can can pay for purchases that take paypass is accepted.

In Barnes & Noble's largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It's the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.