Venmo Touch allows mobile users to use the same payment credentials across a variety of iPhone apps. After launching in the U.S., Braintree is ready to bring it overseas. Read more »
Don’t expect the pace of change in web technologies to slow down in 2012. The web is far from dead. Social media may have anointed one huge player in Facebook, but… Read more »
Call it the year of lessons learned, if not quite bubbles burst. In 2011, several trends in the connected consumer space that appeared inexorable at the start of the year seemed… Read more »
One of the hottest developments in local advertising has without question been the rise of daily deals, which are now being comingled and distributed in mobile and location-based apps for a… Read more »
While Amazon was looking up, the daily online coupon business is going down, imploding under the weight of too much competition and too little value delivered to merchants. Pre-IPO valuations for… Read more »
Last week, a handful of local e-commerce and interactive marketing announcements from Groupon, eBay, and others hinted at future accelerators for the already-hot social commerce space. For social commerce to really… Read more »
Groupon is growing faster than virtually any other tech-related company in history, including Google and Facebook, and is expected to close the year with revenue of more than $500 million. What… Read more »