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Digital Payments Going Viral

Three new services in the past two weeks have significantly boosted the range of digital payment mechanisms available to all kinds of businesses. With the potential to transform how they bill and collect payments, these new ways to pay open up a...

Posted February 23, 2011    

Giving it Away: How Groupon Makes Social Discounting Work

I'm always suspicious of businesses that aim to acquire lots of customers by offering their services for next to nothing, in the hope of making money from them later on. Bargain-hunters rarely turn into profitable long-term customers. So when I...

Posted January 31, 2011    

How Your Business Can Soar with the Cloud

A new generation of ambitious young businesses are harnessing cloud computing and software-as-a-service to punch above their weight. While larger, more established enterprises struggle to master the always-on, 24x7 information streams of today's...

Posted January 17, 2011