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Welcome to episode #254. On the show: Ordering pizza from the street; LOCALiz from Bulzi; Droneports in Rwanda; Sunshine weather app; Your opinion pays in Portland; RevTrax patent; Walgreens' discounts for steps; Salvation Army's Human Needs Index; eyeQ update; Walmart's "Magic" service called Simple Text.

Welcome to episode #253. On the show: Easy location for SMEs thanks to Localistico; Walkbase teams with Samsung for in-store analytics; Amazing Amazon's Flex; On demand clothes alteration by Air Tailor; Nescafe brings virtual reality to...coffee; BestBuy's robot Chloe; Google acquires Jibe; Foursquare adds OpenTable integration; Rentrak merges with Comscore; Binge-watch House of Cards on Virgin thanks to Netflix; Beacons for Good does good with beacons.

Welcome to episode #252. On the show: Eastsa removes waiters from the restaurant; Fujitsu partners with iProximity; Panama does location video sharing; Goodwill's GoBin; Oscar Meyer is your new...matchmaker? Thinknear's ThinkPolitical; Starbucks rolls out "order & pay" everywhere; Coke-moji's; Canadian Tire mPay & Play app; MoBeamQuity. Rob's new gig as VP Marketing at Foko.

Welcome to episode #251. On the show: Apple buys Mapsense; Wycombe Wanderers add GPS trackers to their players; Lipton's Taste of the Brightside campaign makes it rain; Pokemon Go; Mapkin's natural language driving app; UnderArmour and Sports Authority team up around MapMyFitness; Where2GetIt rebrands as Brandify; SocialGist and Foursquare team up; Zonetail raises cash; Admobilize and Verizon partner for IoT integration. Asif reviews his Bluesmart connected suitcase.

Welcome to episode #249. On the show: SmarTone Telecom complicates the KISS principle; Ikea Canada powers discounts with Twitter vending machines; SeeLight helps the blind cross the street; Area360 raises $3.5M; Yogrt rakes in $3M; Untold Music Festival trades tickets for blood...in Transylvania. Member news includes items from Mondelez Shopper Futures, Unacast and Coke, Walgreens, InMarket, Millennial Media, AOL. Special guest is Wojtek Hoch of Nomadic Uno.

Welcome to episode #248. On the show: Uniqlo's Style Your Life campaign with WeChat; Kagulu tells everyone the value of your car; Verizon makes dumb cars a little smarter; Square partners with Apple for P2P payments; Shazam your vodka. Industry news about United Airlines, Macy's Blue Bite and the Gap.

Welcome to episode #247. On the show: Asif's Jamaican journey; Wrapify wants to pay you when you drive your car; Sensewhere partners with Tencent in China; Latis works on smarter notifications; Fishbrain helps catalog the world's endangered fish; Intellibins locates recycling for New Yorkers; Ahlens of Sweden uses Instagram in a unique way; DoubleDutch raises $45 million series E; ClearChannel promotes Humans TV show in airports. Our resource is from xAd called the Global Location Snapshot.

Welcome to episode #246. On the show: Peaceful walking by Walkonomics; Forbes and Tinder partner for networking; Blind French hikers trek 80km without a guide; AwareCar helps you avoid parking tickets; Embarcadero Technologies launches BeaconFence. Member case studies from Target, Coke and the Hampton Inn. Special Guest is Thomas Walle Jensen of Proxbook.

Full show notes can be found here.

If 2014 was the year of beacon awareness and 2015 was the year of the rollout, will 2016 be the year of beacon revenue? If so, how will they earn and for which industries will they earn for? Chuck highlights a recent ABIresearch study that shows this but then offers his own thoughts on where the REAL revenue will come from.

Tata Consultancy Services released a massive global trend study called "Internet of Things: The Complete Reimaginative Force" and it is crammed with incredible insight into this emerging world. In this episode we pull out the 5 success factors for media and entertainment companies. Here's the list.