Mobile Minutes: PayPal Express Checkout; Eli Lilly buys iPads; Super Bowl and social media; Google?s VR ambitions
PayPal's Express Checkout has a mobile shopping problem
Mobile sales are crucial for e-commerce retailers
and online shopping carts. Mobile traffic and sales revenue has exploded
in recent years on both major retail websites and in web marketplaces like
Amazon, not just on high-traffic days likeBlack Friday and Cyber
Monday but year-round.
Read more on PC Mag
Apple's Cook: Eli Lilly bought 15,000 iPads for workers in
field
Eli Lilly and Co. is participating in a secretive
program with tech giant Apple Inc. to make the iPad more
business-friendly.
Read more on USA Today
Facebook Super Bowl 50 sharing numbers decline despite ?sports
stadium,? real-time push
It was not a very social Super Bowl. Conversations on
Facebook and Twitter about the big game appear to have declined from 2015, the
consequence, perhaps, of a limp game between two smaller-market teams.
Read more on The International Business Times
Imagine Google's VR gadget without the cardboard. Google
does
Google's virtual reality ambitions leave cardboard behind.
Read more on CNET