Uber has hired Jeff Holden, until recently a vice president at Groupon, to become its chief product officer. We got to know ex-Amazonian Holden when he launched Pelago, makers of Whrrl… Read more »
Since founding Amazon in 1994, Bezos has spread his cash around in areas as diverse as collaborative consumption (Uber and Airbnb) and healthcare (Qliance and ZocDoc). He even dropped money into… 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 »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Check-in service Whrrl to shut down as part of Groupon’s acquisition of Pelago; News.me… Read more »
But the Cupertino giant also experienced growing pains in its new mobile advertising business as it began to take on Google and a host of other players. Read more »
There’s been a flurry of activity lately in local mobile advertising, which is often called the Holy Grail of marketing. Players like Google and Facebook have an edge thanks to their… Read more »
Location-based shopping services (LBS) have made many headlines recently, and studies have shown that users actually like receiving ads and offers well-targeted to their interests. Couple that with an influx of… Read more »
Mobile app-developer Pelago is partnering with Collective Bias, the social media arm of The Mars Agency, to create a location-aware mobile m… Read more »
The buzz surrounding augmented reality has grown deafening, and for good reason. Conceptually, at least, augmented reality erases the line between the real and virtual worlds: examples include everything from those… Read more »
Updated: Call it a coincidence, but over the past few days I have spent a lot of time with folks who used to work for Amazon (s amzn) but are now… Read more »