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Starbucks is showing that mobile plays a critical role in its overall initiatives by unveiling a new application that features gift card capabilities.
The app includes the company’s eGift feature and combines the features of its iPhone my Starbucks and Starbucks Card mobile apps. The app is available for free download in Apple’s App Store.
“Conceptually the ability to send a coffee gift card to someone else via mobile would only help enhance the customers use of a Starbucks mobile app,” said Marci Troutman, CEO of Siteminis, Atlanta.
“Also, since you have to create an account to send it, and have an account to use it, this locks in more dedicated customers for Starbucks,” she said. “The ease of using PayPal for the transaction and the ‘email the card’ makes this a brilliant mobile move for Starbucks.”

Según el estudio, los iPhones lideran la revolución de la publicidad vía teléfono móvil alcanzando ratios de clic más altos que los dispositivos con otros sistemas operativos.
MediaMind analizó más de 230 millones de impresiones móviles entre octubre de 2010 y marzo de 2011 y descubrió que los dispositivos basados en el sistema operativo iOS de Apple alcanzaban el doble de rendimiento que los teléfonos con Android de Google, y cinco veces más que los teléfonos BlackBerry.
Además, los anuncios por móvil obtuvieron un impresionante 0,61% de CTR, cifra bastante superior al 0,07% de CTR que registraron los banners de display estándar para PC.