Businesses put a lot of thought into the consumer experience: where a store is located, what color the menus are. But few seem to acknowledge that music can make or break a customer's time spent shopping or eating.
Many grow tired of hearing the same old songs at the bar every Friday night or cringe entering the retail chain that plays one holiday album on repeat throughout December. Now, with Roqbot for Business, consumers can play DJ, and voice opinions about what music businesses choose to play.
PayPal's startup rival, Dwolla, has begun offering something its larger competitor doesn't: "guest checkouts."
That means that you can make a payment using Dwolla without having to sign up. Dwolla takes a .25 cut of every payment, though. The Des Moines-based firm announced the feature to developers over the weekend. The company plans to showcase the functionality in an end-of-year fundraising effort on Reddit for Kiva, Charity: Water and F Cancer, among others
The guest checkout is an attractive option for consumers who don't want to give up their personal information. Coincidentally, Facebook rolled out a feature for its Android Messenger app on Tuesday that similarly doesn't require users to be Facebook members
Yahoo has acquired live video chat platform OnTheAir for an undisclosed amount, the startup announced on its website Monday.
This is the second known acquisition Marissa Mayer has made since she took over as CEO five months ago, following the acquisition of Stamped in late October.
Like Stamped, Yahoo is acquiring OnTheAir not for the product itself, but for the talent behind it. OnTheAir's CEO Josh Schwarzapel told Mashable that the startup's five-person team will be joining forces with Yahoo's mobile division in San Francisco to begin working on undisclosed projects. OnTheAir will no longer continue to exist as a standalone product.
Last.fm helped re-define the way people discover music in the early 2000s. Now, the company's founders are back with a new startup that hopes to change the way people discover content online.
The co-founders, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel (seen above), teased their new startup called Lumi in a blog post Tuesday. "When we started Last.fm in 2002 we tried to show that with the right kind of technology it’s possible and easy for people to discover new music they like," they wrote. "We always thought that by taking a similar approach for the Web as a whole it should be easy for people to discover all sorts of content."
Evernote launched a premium version of its flagship app in seven countries on Tuesday. The new app, called Evernote Business, is specifically geared towards enterprise use and will cost $10 a month per user.
Evernote Business applies the note-taking model to companies by letting teams quickly share meeting notes, research, tasks and more through Business Notebooks.
There is also the option to share these notebooks to a larger library that serves as a directory of important documents for the larger company.
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