Mobile
May 2, 2014
Starwood Preferred Guests app
By Joe McCarthy
NEW YORK - Brands and retailers should use mobile to guide the consumer journey instead of viewing revenue as the central metric, according to a top analyst from Forrester Research May 1 at the Mcommerce Summit: State of Mobile Commerce 2014.
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