Many retailers in all sectors are grappling with this challenge: Safeway, Waitrose and Macy's have all deployed various micro-location technologies to provide customers with notifications, offers and inspiration.
Like native apps, the mobile Web apps can work online or off, deliver push notifications and offer in-app purchasing capabilities.
For example, a commerce company could send push notifications that offer its customers' calculated ETAs for their deliveries, and these could include a map showing the delivery's location within a message.
Here, they can then track their balances and receive notifications of offers and other discounts, designed to encourage them to spend their balances with the retailer.
Then, based on how many points you have, your location, and your interests, Loudie will send you push notifications with offers for free tickets for the first people who redeem.
On Android, Craigslist Notification (free) offers an experience roughly similar to the iPhone apps, although it is less refined.
Moreover, opportunistic STI screening is mostly implemented at STI clinics, where also safe sex counselling and partner notification are offered.
You can get rid of upcoming offer notifications, fun company news emails, or reservation notifications, for example.
The startup also plans to add an enterprise plan for businesses, which will offer notifications, analytics, as well as the ability to mark certain files as fully "private".
They all offer notifications from your connected Android smartphone, they all allow for voice commands, and dictated response to messages in apps that support those features.
