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TruRating, Verifone Deal Highlights Importance of Customer Feedback Data
In a move that highlights just how important customer feedback data has become to mid-size businesses, the global payments and commerce juggernaut Verifone recently announced that it’s partnering with TruRating, a comparatively small but influential customer insight company that specializes in point-of-sale customer feedback solutions.
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Solving the Dirty Data Problem in Location-Based Advertising
Our work with leading ad tech companies has shown that 80% of the location data appended to ad inventories is inaccurate. The inaccuracies come from antiquated IP positioning providers who trace ad requests through the Internet to find the hub access point and assign the hub’s latitude and longitude to the IP addresses…
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Street Fight Daily: Inside Apple Watch, Uber’s Growth Numbers
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Street Fight Daily: MaxPoint’s Shaky IPO, Square Eyes Small Business
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#LDS15 Why Payments Data Is the Next Goldmine for Retailers
What we buy often tells a lot about who we are. That’s why payments data – information about what consumers buy, when they buy it, where they are coming from and every other detail imaginable – has become a goldmine for some retailers. But many retailers either don’t collect it, or are not using it to its full potential…
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