Already, like other African papers, the Nation earns modest sums from selling news alerts by text message, deducting a charge for each one from the customer's pre-paid phone plan.However, it now has bigger designs on readers' wallets.
Etsy sellers can also use the app to manage their shops, see what items are selling, get alerts, and even make minor updates.
But the album sold millions, alerted Western rock fans to South Africa's music and its problems, and revived his flagging career.
"Dataminr uses public Tweets to sell breaking news alerts to media organizations such as Dow Jones and government agencies such as the World Health Organization, for non-surveillance purposes," Twitter said in a statement to TechCrunch.
So a farm can use Spoiler Alert to sell its ugly apples to a juice maker, or carrots to a soup maker, and so on.
Functions include – An eBay sidebar that provides quick access and real-time updates on items users have bid on, are selling or watching – Status alerts, including outbid notices – Integrated eBay search – Built in support for eBay's Account Guard.
American Medical Alert sells monitoring devices and other emergency response systems for use by the elderly and people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
Ostomi-i Alert sells for £49.99 for three months, or just over 50p a day, (a price based on market research via social media) but Seres's goal for 2015 is to make the device available on prescription by proving its cost-saving to the NHS when compared to existing products.
What's more, customers can build applications with automatic triggers to make things happen when certain conditions are met such as buying or selling, or to alert humans when it's more complex and requires more sophisticated decision making.
After a stampede on the Bund, a historical tourist hotspot in Shanghai, killed 36 people on New Year's Day this year, China mandated that all tourist landmarks had to stop selling tickets and alert local authorities as soon as visitor numbers reached maximum capacity.
