Daily Archives: June 12, 2012

SittingAround.com lets babysitters accept credit cards

June 12, 2012 – 2:09 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING SittingAround.com, a Boston-based social network that connects parents with able and qualified babysitters, is giving a free Square dongle — the plug-and-play swipe-card reader that facilitates easy P2P payments via smartphone — to babysitters who sign up to be members of the network (TechCrunch.com, 25 May 2012). That will allow […]

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Mexicans can add prepaid divorce card to the grocery list

June 12, 2012 – 2:06 pm

by Monica Kvamme WHAT’S HAPPENING Mexicans can now pick up a divorce … right next to their milk and bread. A group of lawyers in Mexico City has created a prepaid card available in the grocery aisle that puts buyers on the road to singlehood. Named the Libera Divorce Pass, the card is meant to […]

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Black and Latino beer drinkers change the market for everyone

June 12, 2012 – 2:02 pm

by Amber Davis WHAT’S HAPPENING Beer brands are turning their attention to African American and Latino consumers, whose increased consumption and influence on white drinkers is set to have a massive impact on the market. Industry experts expect African American and Latino consumers to drive 70% of market growth between 2000 and 2020 (Advertising Age, […]

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GAMES WITHOUT BORDERS

June 12, 2012 – 2:00 pm

by Robert van Alstyne WHAT’S HAPPENING Eighteen years after inception, the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo remains a prime spot to take the digital pulse of the videogame and media industries. This year’s installment of the massive, three-day trade fair has, as usual, featured plenty of compelling game titles, but evolutions in hardware are the real […]

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