Featured Report: The Future Of Wearable Technology Is In The Enterprise (At Least For Now)

Washington Post

IT digest: Smartphone sales up 20 percent in quarter compared with last year

Dec,28,2014

by: Mohana Ravindranath
Smartphone sales up 20% in quarter
Worldwide smartphone sales grew 20.3 percent from the same quarter one year ago, though overall mobile phone sales were flat, a new Gartner report showed.Vendors sold an estimated 301 million smartphones in the third quarter. These accounted for 66 percent of the total mobile phone market.“Sales of [simpler] feature phones declined 25 percent in the third quarter of 2014 because the difference in price between feature phones and low-cost Android smartphones is reducing further,” Roberta Cozza, a Gartner research director, said in a statement. Read More

Marketing Sherpa Blog

Ecommerce: Building online trust before customers click over to your competitors’ sites

Dec,23,2014

by: Daniel Burstein

All marketing is built on trust. Without trust, customers won’t subscribe to your email. They won’t open. They won’t click. And they certainly won’t buy. Keeping this in mind, I interviewed Craig Spiezle, Executive Director and President,Online Trust Alliance, about security, privacy and consumer protection. I’ve also and provided tips on how you can build trust with your customers. Read More

CNBC

2015's disruptor class: Isaacson on Elon Musk, mobile payments

Dec,28,2014
Trent Gillies
Mobile payments and Elon Musk are among several trends and innovators poised for a breakout year in 2015, according to one expert.In an interview on CNBC, Walter Isaacson, author of the best-selling Steve Jobs  biography, predicts people who are "unbanked" in society will soon be able to make Internet purchases more easily. Isaacson, chief executive of the Aspen Institute, said the lack of banking options available to some will prompt electronic payment systems to rise to the challenge. Read More

Tech Crunch

The Future Of Wearable Technology Is In The Enterprise (At Least For Now)

Dec,25,2014

by: Jonathan Shieber

The first iteration of Google Glass was a flop with consumers (almost from the beginning), most wearables ultimately go unworn, and even boosters bemoan the state of the current wearable market for consumers. Amid all the gloom there’s one trillion dollar bright-spot for the wearable marketplace. From the voice activated communication and logistics devicesmade by Theatro, to the software platforms developed by APX  Labs andAugmate, and the robotic exoskeletons like Lockheed Martin’s Fortis and HULC models or the wearable device from 1MM Corp., a startup just accepted to the R/GA accelerator in New York, for use in warehouses to reduce worker’s injuries. Read More

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Featured Report: Six social networks for the enterprise

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Six social networks for the enterprise

Dec,20,2014

by:Eileen Brown

Facebook has recently announced 'Facebook at work' for connecting professional contacts. If you don't want to mix your business and personal lives, have a look at these social networks you can use for work.  There are hundreds of social networks for use in business. Each has some great features that can really benefit workers and corporations. Here, we take a look at six up-and-coming business social networks that you might not have heard about yet.  Read More

The Social CMO Blog

Breaking the E-Commerce Sound Barrier with Matrix Retail!

Dec,18,2014
by: Admin
BOOM!  What was that noise?  Someone just broke the e-commerce sound barrier! 

In the third quarter of 2014 Williams-Sonoma’s e-commerce sales represented 51.5% ($587 million) of total company sales overtaking their store sales ($566 million) for the first time! Even more importantly this increase is not due to offsetting reductions in store sales with the $566 million in store sales representing an increase of 4.8% year over year for the quarter. Indeed Williams-Sonoma are now helping to define a new retail formula, where the sum of e-commerce and in-store sales is greater than the parts, generating competitive advantage for even a 58 year old retailer. This phenomena is something I’m now calling Matrix Retail. Read More

Fierce Wireless

Report: FCC set to fine Sprint $105M for unauthorized third-party services billing

Dec,16,2014

by: Phil Goldstein

Sprint (NYSE: S) could be faced with a whopping $105 million fine from the FCC for knowingly overcharging its customers for third-party services, according to a National Journal report. The report, which cited unnamed FCC officials, said that the enforcement action against Sprint has not yet been finalized. If approved, it would match the record $105 million fine AT&T Mobility (NYSE: T) agreed in October to settle an investigation by the FCC, which concluded the carrier billed customers millions of dollars in unauthorized third-party subscriptions and premium text messaging services. The settlement with AT&T is the largest enforcement action in the agency's history.  Read More

Marketing Sherpa Blog

Paid Search: 3 things you should know while running a PPC campaign

Dec,19,2014

by: Jessica Lorenz

“You cannot sit down and wait for shoppers to get to your site,” said Victor Yacaman, Ecommerce Director, Leonisa. Leonisa is the No. 1 provider of underwear in Latin America, with 52% of sales generated from paid search. With the ability to track and measure visitors, it’s no wonder PPC has continued to be widely used by retail marketers, “[which] means you can spend more dollars on the things that are working and less dollars on the things that aren’t working” said Timothy Seward, Founder and CEO, ROI Revolution. Timothy referenced a recent study by Shop.org via Forrester, saying that, on average, “46% of [marketers’] online retail marketing budgets is spent on paid search.”  Read More

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Featured Report: Who owns health data? Supreme Court may try answering that question

Modern Healthcare

Who owns health data? Supreme Court may try answering that question
Dec,18,2014
by:  Lisa Schencker
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering hearing a case that could have implications for self-funded insurers nationwide and as many as 16 states that have passed laws creating healthcare data collection programs.  The case, Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., asks the question of whether self-funded insurers should have to hand over certain information to state databases upon request or whether those insurers don't have to under federal law. 
The state of Vermont argues that it needs such data—on claims, member eligibility and other issues—to help it improve the cost and effectiveness of healthcare. The insurance company, however, counters that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, exempts it and its third-party administrator from having to submit the information to state databases. Read More

Med City News

A mobile health startup uses doctor moms for medical query business
Dec,18,2014
by: Stephanie Baum

A mobile health startup using doctors who are mostly stay-at-home moms to respond to medical queries by text message has raised $6 million in a Series A, according to a company statement. In a phone interview with MedCity News, First Opinion co-founder and CEO McKay Thomas said the platform was designed to eliminate the needless visits to a physician, which it reckoned accounts for seven out of 10 office visits The investment round was led by first time investor Polaris Partners, with additional contributions being made by existing investors, including True Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Scrum Ventures and Monashees Capital. Thomas said the funding would be used mainly for developing strategies and partnerships. Thomas emphasized that it wasn’t interested in collaborating with insurers. Read More

Fierce Health Payer

Payers take steps forward with mobile apps in 2014
Dec,18,2014
by: Dori Zweig

In a busy year for the healthcare industry, payers tried to move beyond the technical glitches and court rulings associated with the Affordable Care Act and focus instead on the ACA's aim to make healthcare more accessible and personal.

To play into this idea of the consumerization of healthcare, payers have been busy exploring mobile applications that keep their members healthy and temper rising healthcare costs.

Of course, this has been no walk in the park--consumers have been slow to adopt insurers' mobile apps, while healthcare still hasn't been able to effectively harness data in a way to make it useful. Read More

Fierce Health IT

Study: Nearly half of patients would withhold data from providers
Dec,18,2014
by: Susan D. Hall
Nearly half of patients participating in a trial looking at patient control of the medical records withheld clinically sensitive information from some or all of their care team.

The Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health (formerly Wishard Health Services) conducted the six-month trial involving 105 patients at a primary care clinic. Patients were allowed to designate who could see their records, including information on sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse or mental health.

Patients were able to hide some or all of their data from some or all providers--and 49 percent of them did. However, healthcare providers were able to view the hidden data, if they felt the patient's healthcare required it, by hitting a "break the glass" button on their computer screens, according to an announcement. Read More

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Featured Report: What Motivates Consumers to Complete E-Commerce Purchases?

Web Pro News

Facebook Rolls Out Call-To-Action Buttons For Businesses

Dec,12,2014

by; Chris Crum

Facebook announced a call-to-action feature to “help Pages drive business objectives directly from the Page itself.” “Businesses will now be able to link from a selection of buttons to any destination on or off Facebook, allowing for a much deeper integration with Pages,” a Facebook spokesperson says. “The seven call-to-action buttons available are Book Now, Contact Us, Use App, Play Game, Shop Now, Sign Up and Watch Video.” In a blog post, Facebook shares a quote from Dollar Shave Club, which has been using one of the buttons: “Over the course of a three-week test, the Sign Up call-to-action button delivered a 2.5x higher conversion rate versus other comparable social placements aimed to drive new user acquisition.” — Brian Kim, Director of Acquisition, Dollar Shave Club Read More

ComputerWorld

Salesforce introduces custom AppExchange storefronts
Dec,11,2014
by:

Matt Weinberger

 
Salesforce today introduces AppExchange Store Builder, which lets any customer set up a curated storefront of their most favorite (or most required-by-business) enterprise apps -- with Salesforce's own analytics under the hood and its identity infrastructure gluing the whole thing together. As every company becomes a technology company -- or "app company," as Salesforce puts it -- Store Builder will make it easier to connect users in just a few clicks to the cloud-based tools changing the face of business. It's included in a customer's existing Salesforce subscription and available today.  Read More

IDG Connect

WiFi Direct v Bluetooth: Which Will Win?
Dec,08,2014
by:  Marc Ambasna-Jones
WiFi technology has come a long way since 1997 and the launch of the first 802.11 standard. That was the year Netflix was launched, the Facebook.com domain first went live and JK Rowling published her first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. While Rowling, Netflix and Facebook would go on to become leaders in their fields, WiFi’s rise to the top has not been without its challenges. Yet WiFi as a networking technology has produced a little magic of its own and is now unparalleled, pushing boundaries and not just in internet networking. WiFi Direct, a peer-to-peer version of the technology, has been gaining considerable ground in the last 12 months, to the extent that it is on a potential collision course with Bluetooth. Read More

Marketing Proofs

What Motivates Consumers to Complete E-Commerce Purchases?
Dec,15,2014
by: Ayaz Nanji
 Most online shoppers say they want to know what other customers think about a product before purchasing it on an e-commerce site, according to a recent report from VWO.

Some 55% of online shoppers say reviews from other shoppers are an important factor that influences their ultimate decision to buy or not buy, the survey of 1,000 mobile and desktop users found. However, 23% of consumers say they do not think reviews from others are important, and 22% are indifferent about the issue. Read More: 

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Featured Report: Almost 70 percent of clinicians at US hospitals use smartphones, tablets

EHR Intelligence 

Patient Engagement Rises with Consumer EHR Satisfaction

Dec,10,2014

by: Jennifer Bresnick

Patient engagement helps consumers view EHRs more positively and encourages them to take charge of their health.

The overwhelming majority of patients believe that electronic health records (EHRs) are useful for physicians and valuable for their care, according to a newly released survey by the National Partnership for Women and Families.  Patients were more likely to rate EHRs as a positive development when they had online access to personal health information through a portal or if they could perform routine administrative tasks like making appointments through the internet.  The survey illustrates the importance of patient engagement while highlighting the spread of health IT and its potential impact on the nation’s health.  Read More

MobiHealthNews

Survey: Almost 70 percent of clinicians at US hospitals use smartphones, tablets

Dec,09,2014

by: Aditi Pai

More than two-thirds of clinicians at US hospitals use smartphones or tablet computers at their facilities, according to a small HIMSS survey of 139 clinicians. The survey was conducted between October and November of 2014 and published in time with the group’s mHealth Summit event in Maryland this week.

“As smartphones and tablet computers are relatively new tools to healthcare organizations, it is necessary to establish a baseline understanding of the presence and impact these technologies have in US hospitals,” HIMSS researchers wrote. “By doing so, the market will have a better way to adjudicate the potential these tools have for US healthcare providers and relevant vendors.”  Read More

BBC News Health

Text messaging service 'helps people take their pills'

Dec, 09,2014

by: Staff

A text messaging service could help people remember to take the medicines they have been prescribed, say researchers. A test scheme, which involved heart patients, cut the numbers who forgot or just stopped taking their pills. One in six was helped to continue their treatment, reducing their risk of heart attack and stroke. It has been estimated that the NHS spends more than £500m on wasted medicines and avoidable illness Other research has shown around a third of patients do not take their medicine as directed. Study leader Prof David Wald said text reminders could be used by GPs, hospital doctors and pharmacists for a range of different conditions, including diabetes, TB and HIV.  Read More

Modern Healthcare

Inaccurate provider directories blamed on weak tech, network churn

Dec,11,2014

by: Darius Tahir

 Insurers are under fire for giving consumers bad information about which providers are in their plan network. The controversy raises a simple question: Is it really so hard to maintain an accurate provider directory?  The inaccuracies have drawn criticism from California regulators and proposals for stricter oversight from the nation's insurance commissioners and the Obama administration.  Reliable provider directories are more critical than ever now that millions of Americans are expected to choose their own health plans in the new marketplaces, consumer advocates say, especially given that many lower-cost coverage options have very narrow provider networks.  Read More

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Featured Report: Why You Shouldn’t Forget About Pinterest

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Why You Shouldn’t Forget About Pinterest

Dec,08,2014
by:Michael Kwan
As an online entrepreneur, Internet marketer or professional blogger, you’ll oftentimes find yourself on a variety of different websites, networking both with like-minded individuals and with your “tribe.” While it’s certainly debatable whether or not you should care about Ello, it’s pretty obvious that the bigger social networks deserve your attention. Building up your audience on social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter only makes sense, but then there’s Pinterest too.

Many people, mostly male, have immediately dismissed Pinterest as a site for women to share home baking recipes and flirty outfit ideas, but there’s so much more to the image-focused social network. Indeed, you might remember a post on this blog talking about how you can make $1,000 a day on Pinterest by sharing the right kind of content in the right kind of way. Read More

e-Marketer

Yahoo Poised to Pass Twitter in US Mobile Ad Share by 2015 
Dec,04,2014
By Staff
Yahoo’s US mobile ad revenues are not only material now, they’re significant, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. Yahoo reported its mobile revenues for the first time in Q3 2014, and eMarketer estimates that the company will take nearly 3.2% of the $18.99 billion US mobile advertising market in 2014, launching itself into the mix as a competitor. Next year, Yahoo’s US mobile ad revenues will account for 3.74% of the country’s mobile ad market, pushing past Twitter for the first time—which will take 3.69% share in 2015—according to eMarketer. By 2016, Yahoo’s share will near 4.2%, which still trails Google and Facebook by a wide margin. However, the company’s 1-percentage-point gain from 2014 through 2016 represents the largest among companies that we tracked for this latest forecast. Read More

TechCrunch

Six Drivers Of The $700B Mobile Internet
Dec,06,2014
by: Tim Merel

Mobile internet is all about big numbers. Revenue will more than triple to $700 billion by 2017, there was over $19 billion invested and $94 billion exits in the last 12 months, average sector returns were up to 15.6x all of the money invested over the last three years, public stock market returns were up to 78 percent in the last year, and there are 32 billion-dollar mobile Internet companies already Understanding what’s driving these big numbers is critical for entrepreneurs, investors and corporates, so let’s dig in. Read More

e-Week

Microsoft's Torque Wearable App Heads to Android Phones 
Dec,07,2014
by: Pedro Hernandez

In the mobile waters, Microsoft is swimming against the current somewhat. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant announced on Dec. 5 that its Torque app is making the leap from wrist-worn Android Wear devices to Android smartphones. Since Torque's debut in October, Android smartphone users have been clamoring for the ability to shake and search, according to Microsoft. Today, the company is honoring their request. "We have incorporated that feedback into Torque 2.0 and added support for Torque on Android phones," said Microsoft's Torque Team in a blog post. The update also offers "new answers including local events and flight status, a way to launch applications with the twist gesture, and more reliable gesture and voice recognition."  Read More

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Featured Report: Revised federal data show U.S. healthcare spending growth hit 53-year low in 2013

Modern Healthcare

Revised federal data show U.S. healthcare spending growth hit 53-year low in 2013

Dec,03,2014

by: Melanie Evans

 U.S. healthcare spending apparently grew more slowly last year than at any time in the past half-century—including the Great Recession—as Medicare squeezed outlays, millions of Americans continued to go without health insurance and those with health plans spent at a slower pace on hospitals, clinics and pharmacies.  The nation spent $2.9 trillion on healthcare last year, an increase of 3.6% from the prior year and the weakest growth since 1960, after federal actuaries and economists revised recent estimates. That spending remained weak in 2013 was not surprising: U.S. health spending growth fell below 4% in 2009 with the recession that stripped private health insurance from millions of individuals. But newly revised numbers show an acceleration in 2012 to 4.1% before a slump last year. Read More

MobiHealthNews

MDs may be more interested in DIY health services than patients are

Dec,04,2014

by: Brian Dolan

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute (HRI) published a report on top trends for the health industry in 2015, which was based on findings from a survey of 1,000 consumers in the US and additional interviews with healthcare executives. “With consumers leading the way, bearing more costs and making more decisions, change is erupting throughout the health industry,” Kelly Barnes, PwC’s US health industries leader said in a statement. “Established healthcare companies and new entrants are rapidly developing cost-efficient products and services tailored directly to consumers.”  Read More

Fierce Mobile Healthcare

Report: To succeed, wearables need more than fitness focus

Dec,01,2014

by: Judy Mottl

Unless mHealth wearable makers want innovations to go stale the way some fitness devices have, they'd better start making more appealing and relevant products, says a new Juniper Research report.  "The key is making the devices provide meaning as well as data--counting steps is all very well, but will not keep consumers interested unless that information can be contextualized and made useful for them," James Moar, a research analyst with Juniper, told FierceMobileHealthcare in an email interview. Read More

iHealthbeat

Can the U.S. Health Care System Realize the Promise of Digital Health?

Nov,20,2014

by: Kate Ackerman

NEW YORK -- Embracing digital health is key to curbing out-of-control health care costs, increasing access to care, improving care quality and encouraging patient engagement. But the current regulatory and policy landscape could get in the way of the U.S. realizing the full potential of health IT. That was the message from speakers and attendees at the New York eHealth Collaborative's fourth annual Digital Health Conference in New York City this week. Read More

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