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Monthly Archives December 2011

Dec
20th

InvenSense Introduces the World’s Smallest Dual-Axis Gyropscopes for Optical Image Stabilization in SmartPhones

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November 30, 2011 – 

InvenSense Inc. (NYSE: INVN), the leading provider of MotionProcessing™ Solutions for consumer electronics, today announced the introduction of a family of dual-axis gyroscopes, IDG-2020 and IXZ-2020, that address the market needs for optical image stabilization (OIS) in smartphones. Smartphones are rapidly replacing digital still cameras (DSC) as the devices of choice for capturing images; however, their image quality has generally been worse than DSCs due to blurry images, especially those taken in low-light conditions. By incorporating OIS technology, the same method adopted by many digital still camera manufacturers, smartphone image quality can be dramatically enhanced. Continue Reading »

Dec
20th

Tagged Picks Parature for Cloud-based Customer Engagement Support

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December 20, 2011 – 

Parature, a global leader in cloud-based customer engagement software, announced today that Tagged, the social network for meeting new people, has chosen Parature for online customer support to service its worldwide customer base.

Tagged, the third largest social network, has over 100 million users in 220 countries who have joined the site to meet new people through social games, friend suggestions, browsing profiles, group interests and more. With such a large, growing user base, Tagged is taking a proactive approach to its social customer service strategy, making sure it is servicing its customers on multiple platforms, meeting its SLAs, and improving internal efficiencies. Continue Reading »

Dec
20th

Titanium Mobile SDK 1.8 RC2 Is Live

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December 16, 2011 – 

We’re excited to announce Titanium Mobile SDK 1.8 Release Candidate 3 is now available. This release fixes some issues in 1.8 RC1 and improves stability. For more information on the release, see the original blog post for 1.8 RC1. Continue Reading »

Dec
20th

Payvment Introduces Support for Mobile Shopping on Twitter

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December 14, 2011 – 

Payvment, the number one Facebook e-commerce platform, today launched a new mobile shopping experience optimized to support Twitter’s new design. Shoppers can now click on a tweet in their stream to learn more about a featured product and immediately purchase it – or click “want” to add the product to their Wish List on their Payvment profile, making it easy to shop and share on the go. Continue Reading »

Dec
19th

Revionics to Showcase Price Optimization Solutions at NRF 2012

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December 13, 2011 – 

Revionics, Inc., the leading provider of retail life cycle price optimization solutions, will be showcasing several of its new and enhanced Life Cycle Price Optimization solutions including shopper-centric pricing and promotions with social and mobile offer publishing and end-to-end markdown optimization at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) BIG Show (Booth #459), held January 15-18, 2012. Revionics will also be co-presenting with its customer, Pamida — a leading regional retailer with 193 stores in 17 states, during the company’s Big Idea Session: “Winning in the Age of the Shopper”. Continue Reading »

Dec
16th

iCrossing Acquires Red Aril

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December 08, 2011 – 

iCrossing, a global digital marketing agency, announced the acquisition of Red Aril, a data management and audience optimization platform (DMP) company. The acquisition of Red Aril enables iCrossing to build connected brands at a more personal level with clients’ audiences in real time. Red Aril’s DMP functionality includes the ability to collect, protect, model and transform data into optimized audience profiles that easily integrate into the broader marketing and advertising ecosystem. Continue Reading »

Dec
16th

A Great Opportunity: Real-Time Audience Relationships at Scale

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December 07, 2011 – 

It is with great excitement that I communicate today the acquisition of Red Aril by iCrossing (a unit of Hearst Corporation). For me and the rest of the Red Aril executive team (Kira Makagon, Sasha Berman, Kiril Tsemekhman and Carol Eckardt) today’s news marks the end of one phase and the beginning of another on our journey. Being part of the iCrossing and Hearst family means Red Aril may now offer our clients a new opportunity: integrated, personalized marketing campaigns and real-time audience relationships at scale.

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