Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER, and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. In the era of ubiquitous smartphones and omnichannel social media ...

QR codes are cool, but they haven't quite caught on en masse yet, because finding cool uses for them have been challenging. One popular use for QR codes is printing them on business cards. Sharon ...

A QR code is a machine-readable matrix barcode and it stands for “quick response” code. You can use the camera app on any phone to scan a QR code. After being scanned, the QR code will send the user ...

Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square “quick response” codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan ...

Consumers in Japan are used to seeing fuzzy little code boxes on just about everything—advertising posters in subway stations, McDonald’s sandwich wrappers, beverage packaging, receipts, T-shirt tags, ...

In the same way that websites, then MySpace URLs, and more recently Facebook pages started appearing in TV, magazine and newspapers ads, we’re starting to see more QR codes appear in traditional ...

The last two years have been something of a renaissance for QR codes in the United States. Brands across industries were forced to embrace them to deliver products and services in contact-free ways.