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This is a fairly crazy way to buy things, but it does have a certain appeal to folks who like to thoroughly document their spending habits. You know the ones: They film themselves "unboxing" consumer electronics items, or they upload mirror pics of their new outfits to Pinterest, or they tell all their Facebook friends about the Kickstarter pledge they just made. 

the amount of time consumers spent engaged with the brand was 48 seconds when NFC was involved. This is significantly higher than the five to 10 seconds consumers typically spend at the shelf choosing a product.

eMarketer:  The research firm estimates that the total transaction value for mobile payments in the U.S. will be $640 million this year, but that will grow to more than $62 billion in 2016 as a bigger segment of the population uses their phones to buy medium-ticket items, including fast-food restaurants. The average user of mobile payments will spend $62 a year with their phones in 2012, but that grows to $1,294 in 2016, according to eMarketer's estimate.

"Newsweek's rapid descent contrasts with more stable stories at competitors including Time, The Week and The Economist (half-owned by the FT Group). Analysts even predict that magazine publishers are about to start growing again. eMarketer, a research firm, sees US print advertising budgets staying steady, slightly above $15bn, between 2010 and 2016. Growing digital spending in that period will lift total US magazine advertising from $17.5bn to $19.2bn."

"Facebook is making strides towards becoming a multi-media communication juggernaut, its head of Messenger David Marcus announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Out of Messenger's one-billion users, 300 million people use its audio and video calling features each month. That's around the size of Skype's entire user base. Facebook is uniquely well-suited to disrupting traditional home and mobile phone voice calling and their successor, video calling. It has the most complete social graph of family, friends, and acquaintances - going beyond what's in most people's phone contacts. It has a one-billion user chat app where people are already spending tons of time. And it has the technology infrastructure to support high-bandwidth transmissions."

Uber Local Offers. The premise of the program is simple: Uber riders who've registered Visa cards to their Uber accounts can rack up rewards points by using that same Visa card at various local merchants. Uber users get one point for every dollar spent at a partner merchant and are notified via the Uber app when they spend money at those local merchants. Once users have racked up 100 points, they get a $10 ride credit on Uber.

"According to research firm Gartner, by 2017 the CMO will spend more money on information technology than the CIO. It's a startling statement, but based on the rapid rise in data and analytics, is a means to better target and engage consumers."

"How much time do you spend on Reddit?  If you're anything like the average Redditor, it's quite a bit!  Yesterday Reddit reported, via Twitter, that in August the average time spent per visit was 17:29 minutes.  The month also closed with a shipping 3.4 billion page views and 42.9 million uniques.  Impressive, eh? While the 17:29 minute figure is only a one second increase from 17:28 in July, the page views and uniques saw a significant jump.  In July Reddit reported 3.1 billion page views and 39.5 million users."

Tagged for Obama's in-game ads and CARL'S JR USE OF ANIMATED GIFS!!! The rest of the examples are interesting, too, notably that PepsiCo spends 10% of its digital-media budget by investing in startups.

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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.

shopperception uses kinect sensors to spatial recognition capabilities to monitor the way shoppers interact with products on shelf -- how long they spend, which ones they touch, what are put back, and what are purchased

in 2011, 6.3% of all local online advertising was served up on a mobile device. Borrell Associates forecasts by 2016, 88% of all local online advertising will be served up on a mobile device.

Growth in online music revenue = decline in physically-packaged music

Flock is not just a brand new app; we see it as a brand new *kind* of app.  While most apps today jockey for our ever-dwindling time and attention, attempting to become one of the apps that we think about the most, Flock is different.  We designed Flock so you don't have to think about it at all.  You just live your life like you already do.  Spend time with your friends and family; take photos with whatever camera app you prefer.  There's no work for you at all, really.  Flock uses new battery-friendly location technology and sophisticated algorithms to magically know which of your Facebook friends you are with when photos are taken.  After you leave your group hike, or the night out on the town, or Thanksgiving dinner, Flock will check if anyone wants to share the photos they took and then bring those photos together into a single group album for everyone to enjoy.  And because most photos taken by iOS devices are geotagged, Flock can even work backwards in time from before you installed the app!  So if you and your friends and family install the app today, you'll likely unlock lost memories that were trapped on each other's phones for years.

But it's AOL's own properties the company aims to build up as a go-to premium buy for brand advertisers. Display revenue on AOL properties grew by 2 percent. The company is betting on premium ad formats such as its rich-media laden Project Devil units to entice brands to spend more. AOL reported that more than half of the advertisers who bought the ads in Q1 re-upped this past quarter. Armstrong admitted that last year the company's focus was not data-driven, and stressed the firm's renewed mission to ensure that data - meaning results-related numbers proving the value of buying AOL's ad products - is at the heart of its sales approach. People cannot leave the building without data, said Armstrong. Mobile and video ad revenue are key to future growth for AOL, said Armstrong, who said that last summer 75 percent of insertion orders included both platforms. Today, it's close to 100 percent, he said. The company reported that videos, video views, and video revenue rose at double-digit rates, though it did not break out revenues for video advertising.

Adaptu Wallet links accounts, monitors spending and calculates future expenses to give users an accurate read of how much money they currently have.