Kim-Mai Cutler:"That would effectively make Foursquare more like a loyalty card, as it motivates users to check-in or visit their favorite haunts more times to win deals. Plus it could charge local businesses for promotion within the app like the photo to the right."
"I think one of the simplest ways to do this is to ask people lots of questions when you meet them. I’m surprised how often people fail to do this. Besides being good manners, it’s also an efficient way to learn about the world and sometimes make important discoveries and connections."
You Say Goodbye and We Say Hello To our dear readers: Thank you, thank you very much. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher in Media December 31, 2013 at 2:00 pm PT
Kara Swisher:"These include a number of structures, including a payment of several million dollars to Twitter, along with various revenue-sharing proposals that would give Twitter a piece of the revenue made from search results."
Paul Kedrosky:"One improvement would be for limited partners to get 100% of a fund’s returns until they are fully repaid their original investment. That way, a fund’s general partners wouldn’t be pre-paid on a fund that may or may not end up performing."
Rich Miller:"As we’ve previously noted, Twitter has become an important secondary support channel for many hosting and data center providers. As such, the service’s continued reliability problems have business implications."
Michael Masnick:"The plan appears to be not to charge for news but to charge for some kind of membership club which provides additional benefits, along with the paper. So, becoming a member gives you the ability to add certain "packs" of information to your paper."