Showrooming. Everybody’s heard of it by now — conniving shoppers checking out a product in a retail store, then buying it online later for less. But today it makes more sense… Read more »
Belly originally built its loyalty and marketing platform for local businesses, but it’s now gravitating toward big enterprise chains. McDonalds, Chic-fil-A, 7-Eleven and Domino’s are all running pilot programs of Belly’s… Read more »
Chicago-based Boomerang is kicking to the curb its initial local-merchant approach to social gifting. Instead it’s focusing on what it believes is a much bigger opportunity: tapping into the viral marketing… Read more »
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason fired, Google CEO Sergey Brin feels emasculated by phones but not by nerd glasses and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is putting an end to remote work. Plus… Read more »
Shares of Groupon plummeted today after the company posted a disappointing fourth quarter and lowered expectations for the current quarter, but its users are increasingly taking advantage of the daily deals… Read more »
Could one startup convince local businesses to get on board with online booking? A Silicon Valley entrepreneur is going to see if local businesses want to get on board with his… Read more »
Europe has been talking for weeks about the possibility that the Samwer brothers, Germany’s uber clonemeisters, may be taking some or all of their copycat empire public. Would it be a… Read more »