One application Trout mentions is using mobile as a medium for social payments.
But it also faces a challenge from mobile over the medium term, as its games are best suited to high-powered PCs.
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Rask: Mobile is the only medium where you can map a full path to purchase.
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Apple had previously committed to using NFC chips in upcoming devices, and an iWatch could be the ideal medium for mobile payments.
Mobile is a really powerful medium because you have your phone with you all the time.
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They know that 38% of small and medium businesses depend on mobile apps.
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Online marketing services company ReachLocal has recently expanded from its service targeting small to medium sized businesses with mobile consumer app Bizzy.
But in the mobile era, more small-and medium-sized American companies are entering China and partnering with Chinese companies with better reach.
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Mobile is a new and completely open medium, so resorting to the same tactics we used in print and even desktop web will simply not work.
He adds that a mix shift to mobile and international is hurting growth in the medium term.
Intermedia manages more than half a million hosted email accounts for small and medium sized businesses and it tracked mobile device activations for September to November.
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The mobile phone, therefore, has also become also a direct medium for literacy learning.
For medium and longer videos, viewers are watching from mobile and tablets.
In small-to-medium sized businesses, more than a quarter of employees are mobile at any given time.
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Out-of-the-box, the LeafPresenter provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with a feature-rich mobile ordering and checkout device capable of accepting payments via their choice of processor or next-generation payment methods such as PayPal, LevelUp and other mobile wallets.
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In addition, Toshiba is also debuting Mobile Broadband-ready versions of the recently unveiled professional laptops targeted at small offices and companies, medium businesses and large enterprises: the Tecra M11, A11 and S11, and the ultra-slim Satellite Pro T110 and Satellite Pro T130.
They were also more trusting of the medium, and more likely to give out personal information such as bank, credit card and mobile phone details.
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