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Google wants to transform Android phones into a kind of electronic wallet that will allow consumers to make purchases by waving their smartphones in front of a small reader at checkout. MasterCard Inc. and Citigroup Inc. have teamed up with the Internet giant to help develop this technology, reports the Wall Street Journal.Google's motive is to boost its advertising business to local retailers. The company is not expecting a cut from the transaction fees. It hopes the technology will...
SAN DIEGO, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Service-now.com, the creator of cloud services for enterprise IT management, today announced it has once again been named to the Wall Street Journal "Next Big Thing" list. The Wall Street Journal analyzed 5,743 organizations in order to identify the top 50 privately held, venture-backed companies. The publication ranked these organizations according to both financial and qualitative components and also identified intangibles as key factors in its...
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Xactly Corporation, the leader in on-demand sales performance management (SPM), has been named to The Wall Street Journal's prestigious list of the "Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies." Xactly ranked number three in the annual ranking, which was announced on March 10, 2011(1). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050906/SFF038LOGO) According to The Wall Street Journal, "To be eligible for the ranking -- compiled by research firm...
NEW YORK, March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Recyclebank®, a community that rewards people for taking everyday green actions, today announced that it has been named to The Wall Street Journal's The Next Big Thing list, which seeks to identify and rank venture-backed companies across all industries that have the capital, executive experience and investor know-how to succeed. Selected from a pool of more than 5,000 companies and ranked based on proprietary data from Dow Jones VentureSource and...
NEW YORK, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Recyclebank®, a green lifestyle community that rewards people for taking everyday green actions, today announced that it has taken the top spot on the Wall Street Journal's prestigious ranking of the Top 10 Clean-Tech Companies. The ranking was announced yesterday at the Journal's ECO:nomics Executive Conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., a forum for the world's top CEOs, entrepreneurs, policymakers and industry experts to assess the risks and...
Effective and non-invasive treatments provided by ProRehab physical therapists help alleviate back pain, often at a lower cost and with less risk than alternatives. A sharp increase in the number of treatments and tests for back pain in adults has recently been reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine and the Wall Street Journal. These findings were not paired with increases in the number of patients with...
Dr. Grady Core, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Birmingham, AL, recently grabbed the Wall Street Journal spotlight for his work as a co-developer of endoscopic plastic surgery techniques. He continues to teach this technique to plastic surgeons throughout the global cosmetic enhancement community, with specific concentration on facelifts, breast augmentation, and tummy tuck. Birmingham, AL (Vocus/PRWEB) February 01, 2011 At his Birmingham plastic surgery practice, Dr. Grady Core...
NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones' Wall Street Journal Professional has been recognized as Best News Service by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), winning the organization's 2011 Codie Award. Wall Street Journal Professional combines the worldwide news coverage and analysis of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones with the global business and news sources from Factiva, one of the largest electronic databases for business news and information in the...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent polls show that 85% of Americans are angry about the current state of the economy. But - who should they be angry WITH? The federal government's soon-to-be released and sure-to-be oversold Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report will tell them it's Wall Street. Former Investor's Business Daily's Washington Bureau Chief Paul Sperry's exhaustively researched new book - The Great American Bank Robbery: The Unauthorized Report About What...
Verizon Wireless will take the wraps off of a new Apple iPhone designed especially for their service on Tuesday, sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Saturday.The announcement will be made in New York, according to WSJ reporters Shayndi Raice and Yukari Iwatani Kane, and sources say that the device itself will become available in Verizon Wireless stores by the end of the month.This will mark the first time that customers in the United States have been able to...
