Say someone wanted to buy a bus ticket from Greyhound, a partner of PayNearMe.
Bus ticket vending machines in central London could start to disappear from the beginning of 2013, Transport for London (TfL) has said.
"We earn very little, but at least I can buy a pack of maize meal, some chicken pieces and a bus ticket, " she says.
Once she could walk, Verna was given five dollars and a bus ticket and instructed to return to the guardianship of her mother, because she was still a minor.
When it was evident that the worst had happened, she bought Verna a bus ticket and shipped her off to a church-run Home for Unwed Mothers on the outskirts of Toronto.
With a major two-lane highway running through it, Mikumi National Park might be one of the only places in the world to offer views of wild animals and grassy savannahs for the price of a bus ticket.
Hugh himself, if he is to marry his Roda, will have to convert to Islam, a process that is daunting for an Egyptian Copt but which, for a foreign Christian, turns out to be as easy as buying a bus ticket.
Slimtrader is a promising start-up that launched a commerce platform a year ago using the tools available in the developing world: feature phones and SMS. A traveler in Lagos, Nigeria can enter the text shortcode for a bus ticket and get a reply with a schedule and prices.
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The algorithm could be of great interest to Twitter, which could charge a premium for ads linked to popular topics, but it also represents a new approach to statistical analysis that could, in theory, apply to any quantity that varies over time: the duration of a bus ride, ticket sales for films, maybe even stock prices.
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Turnover and profits at bus and rail operator FirstGroup were boosted by increased ticket sales at both its UK rail and US Greyhound bus division.
Buying a ticket for a tour bus, she said, the cashier had been very surprised to learn she was Romanian.
People in New York take obnoxious pride in their iPod playlists, curating them with precise attention to hipness and currency, as if they're fearful Lou Reed will peep over their shoulder on the subway, see the Black Eyed Peas on the screen and buy them a ticket on the first bus back to Connecticut.
The roadworks will last until April and then work will begin at the bus station with new shelters and a ticket office installed.
Police have released images of a person they want to trace after a gun was pulled on a bus driver who challenged a passenger about his expired ticket.
The Scotland-wide concessionary travel scheme for bus journeys already uses 7, 000 smart-enabled ticket machines.
And for the cost of a cheap public transport ticket you can ride the harbor boat-bus around the entire channel and see the same sites as the tourist boats (and even hop off and on along the way).
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