Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads

Visa and Mastercard are pushing in to a new business: using what they know about people's credit-card purchases for targeting them with ads online.

"Their plans, if implemented, would represent not only a technological feat—tying people's Internet lives with shopping activities—but also an erosion of the idea of anonymity on the Web. It's an effort by the two companies to profit by selling access to the insights they gather about people with every credit-card transaction."

The full article can be found at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204002304576627030651339352.html

Apple refuses to rely on rival Google Map App

Technology Reveiw 

Name:Jonathan Bartel
-"Apple Charts a Course for 3-D Maps to replace Google Maps App".
-"In that year, it bought a mapping company called Placebase; last year, it scooped up a 3-D mapping company called Poly9. This week, 9to5Mac confirms that Apple has now purchased a third mapping company, C3 Technologies, which mysteriously shut down in August following its acquisition from a then-unnamed buyer."

New App Helps You Diet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20128604-76/are-you-going-to-eat-that-new-app-helps-you-eat-better-video/?tag=mncol;txt

I thought that this new app for smart phones was pretty cool because it allows for people to monitor the food the eat over extended periods of times. Check it out!