Facebook takes on Yelp and Foursquare with Facebook Local

Facebook takes on Yelp and Foursquare with Facebook Local

Continuing its quest to replicate business models and out-innovate the competition to be an ecosystem player, Facebook has relaunched its Events app. Now re-branded as Local, the standalone app represents the social side of social networking, allowing users to find events that match their interests and proximity. With 88% of its revenue stemming from mobile, […]

Start-ups Invited to ‘Dive Into’ the Visa Developer Sandbox

Start-ups Invited to ‘Dive Into’ the Visa Developer Sandbox

Visa recently started inviting start-ups to compete in the company’s second annual The Everywhere Initiative. In partnership with start-up ecosystem company, KITE, Visa is posing three real-life business challenges to the start-up community to create innovative solutions that solve Visa business problems and drive the future of commerce. According to a provided statement, the selected […]