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Prof. Anindya Ghose on Shazam's plan to partner with retailers

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Excerpt from Inc. -- "Anindya Ghose, an IT and marketing professor New York University's Stern School of Business, has spent much of the past few years studying mobile marketing, interactive retail beacons, and consumer privacy around the world. He says in Asia, where I reached him over telephone, beacons are increasingly popular in retail environments, and customers universally seem willing to give up a little bit of their data in exchange for the right rewards--say coupons or discounts. The primary hurdle to retailers using in-store mobile marketing is consumer awareness. But, Ghose says, 'given that a lot of consumers have the Shazam app, it is a brilliant play.'"

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