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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

BigCommerce

Technology is restructuring how money moves. From crypto-currencies to peer-topper payments and one-click checkouts, modern innovations are shifting the basic payment infrastructure of our economy. 2003: 95 million cell phone users worldwide made a purchase via their mobile device.?. And the wallet is its next target.

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Hiring Top-Notch Marketing Talent Out of College

eCommerceFuel

And I don’t know why this stuck out at me, but you mentioned, I think it was even in one of your bios, that you’ve been teaching at MSU since 2007. Jake : So one of my favorite books is a book called “Diffusion of Innovations,” by a guy named Everett Rogers, and he studied why people adopt technology.

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How Jack Dorsey helped build Twitter

365 Retail

In 2007, having started to quickly gain users, Twitter was spun off as its own start-up, Dorsey was named chief executive, and the company secured a first round of major investment funding. On March 21, 2006, Dorsey sent the first public tweet as the group began testing the platform – a message that read “just setting up my twttr”.