Travel Organizer TripIt Sold To Concur For Up To $120 Million
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TripIt, a startup that offers mobile and online tools that travelers can use to organize their travel plans, has been sold to Concur for up… Read more »
Flush With Cash, Groupon Is Buying Its Way Overseas
It’s not all about the prospect of Groupon getting bought – now replete with a $950 million investment, the daily deals service is acquiring… Read more »
IPO Readiness: How Facebook And LinkedIn Compare To Previous Tech Giants
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Industry watchers had said 2011 would be a big year for IPOs, and, if week one of the new year is any indication, they’re already right. Bot… Read more »
Case Study: Newspapers Writing For Search Trends?
The Telegraph is amongst the newspapers chasing web audiences by analysing exactly what potential readers are looking for.
Its list of “The… Read more »
Thrillist Gets Deeper Into Local Deals Space — But Don’t Call It ‘Deals’
As media companies increasingly look to the local deals space as a way to attract incremental ad dollars and offer an additional layer of se… Read more »
France’s Bon-Prive Raises €1.5 Million In Daily Deals Craze
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With Groupon having raised $500 million over Christmas, the kindling is well alight under the deals-buying paradigm. And investments are sti… Read more »
What HMV Tells Us About the Death of Physical Media Products
UK media retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) has announced that it will close 60 of its UK stores following very disappointing Christmas period sales (n… Read more »
B&N Adds Nook Kids iPad App; 100 Interactive Titles At Launch
Just before Christmas, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) quietly released its Nook Kids childrens e-books app for Apple’s iPad. The new app came a… Read more »
Habbo Hotel Sold €4.5 Million In Virtual Goods In December
Isometric teen online community Habbo Hotel says its tenth year was its best ever. In fact, it attracted €22 ($29.53/£18.89) in virtual g… Read more »
Domino’s iPhone App Sells £1 Million In Pizza In Just Three Months
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When you need pizza fast, you need pizza fast. According to Domino’s…
“We have continued to see excellent growth in e-commerce sales duri… Read more »
A.H. Belo To Put Up A Paywall At Its Flagship Paper
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A.H. Belo (NYSE: AHC) will begin to charge users to access some content on the site of its flagship Dallas Morning News, making the 264,459… Read more »
Ziff Davis Acquires LogicBuy, Unveils Ad Targeting Platform
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Six months after former Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) digital news exec Vivek Shah became the owner of tech publisher Ziff Davis, the company has do… Read more »
SEC Watch: Groupon Raises Half A Billion In Half A Round
Some investors in local deals startup Groupon won’t have to wait for a sale or IPO to get a payout. In an SEC filing Thursday, the Chicago-b… Read more »
Amazon Brags Kindle 3 Is Its ‘Biggest Seller’ Ever But Still Mum On Figures
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After what has shaped up as a pretty promising Christmas holiday season, Amazon says that its third-generation Kindle is now the bestselling… Read more »
Groupon Hires A CFO From Amazon
Groupon, which is expected to soon raise an additional round of funding and ultimately try to go public, has hired an Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN… Read more »
EBay Buys Mobile App Developer Critical Path Software
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E-commerce giant eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) today doubled-down on its mobile ambitions: the company announced that it has bought Critical Path Softwa… Read more »
Microsoft Joins A Coalition Against A Google-ITA Tie-Up
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Not really a surprise, but noteworthy nonetheless: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is joining a growing coalition of companies that are publicly oppo… Read more »
Chicago Tribune Goes Shopping With Groupon
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Daily local deals aggregator Groupon may have rebuffed Google’s offers to acquire it, but the company is still open to shopping companions f… Read more »
GameStop Turns To IGN For Content As Part Of Digital Strategy
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Video game retailer GameStop is partnering with News Corp.’s IGN in its latest attempt to expand its website beyond e-commerce. Under a two-… Read more »
A&E, History Open Up Shop On Facebook
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Sister cable channels A&E and History are beefing up the Facebook pages of some of their most popular TV shows with an e-commerce component… Read more »
France’s Newpapers Team Up On Paid-Kiosk Initiative
Eight of France’s leading newspapers publishers and Orange have teamed to form a consortium aiming to jointly monetise electronic platforms… Read more »
Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity
For the first time in the internet’s history, the hottest thing online today is local. Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and locatio… Read more »
Telegraph Has Not Pushed The ‘Paywall’ Button; Options Remain Open
Here we go. Telegraph Media Group, like many media groups, has, for several months now, been reviewing digital opportunities including wheth… Read more »
Travel Ad Network Uses Some Of Its Big Round To Buy TravelMuse
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Travel Ad Network has made a small acquisition, as it moves from primarily serving as an ad network for third-party sites to also operating… Read more »
ProPublica Takes Press+ Out For A Spin
ProPublica is going public today as the latest customer of Press+, the payment platform from Journalism Online.The investigative nonprofit i… Read more »
Groping For Groupon: Local Deals Powerhouse In Play?
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Groupon is having a double-barreled day in the spotlight, slammed on the tech side thanks to a Nordstrom Rack offer and an Oprah mention, an… Read more »
Expedia Goes Mobile, Buys Travel App Mobiata
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It’s a surprise that every online travel property isn’t already swimming in mobile functionality, given the obvious connection between the t… Read more »
Online Classifieds Site Oodle Acquires Crowd Organizer Grouply
Oodle, a company that’s long been trying to challenge Craigslist in the online classifieds space, is hoping to better organize its social me… Read more »
DailyCandy Wants To Make ‘Deals’ With Local Marketers
As the discount shopping space continues to attract attention from media companies, DailyCandy, the Comcast-owned fashion and entertainment… Read more »
Five Mobile Trends I’ll Be Watching
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It’s been three years since I started working at mocoNews. In that time — I turned my living room into an office, which I sentimentally cal… Read more »
Glu’s Revenues Fall As It Gears Up To Launch New Game Titles
Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) reported today that Q3 revenues fell again in the third quarter, and will likely continue to slide in the fourth qua… Read more »
AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Leaves Google For Personal Reasons
Sometimes founders are obligated to stay for a year or two after their company has been acquired, and sometimes things unravel a lot faster… Read more »
Two New Mobile Payment Options, Two Entirely Different Approaches
Both Sprint (NYSE: S) and AT&T (NYSE: T) have announced two new mobile payments services this week that aren’t anything alike.
Sprint’s mob… Read more »
The Top 10 Biggest Spenders On Mobile Advertising
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The entertainment industry spent the most on mobile advertising in the third quarter, according to Millennial Media, which reported the top… Read more »
PayPal Expands Mobile Payments; Pushes Into The Sale Of Digital Goods
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Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer co… Read more »
Why Content And Commerce Is A Marriage Made In Heaven
Frédéric Court is a partner at Advent Venture Partners, an investor in Dailymotion, Qype and others.
The internet has disrupted both the… Read more »
NCR Acquires Mobiqa To Gain Expertise In Mobile Ticketing
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NCR Corp. of Duluth, Ga. has acquired Mobiqa, a provider of mobile tickets, boarding passes, and other typically paper-based items for the t… Read more »
Travel Ad Network Raises $15 Million More
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Travel Ad Network, which, as its name implies, runs a travel-focused ad network, has raised $15 million in a third round of funding. The com… Read more »
NYT Slaps Micropayment Service Kachingle With Trademark Suit
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is suing micropayments system Kachingle after the service maintained several of the flagship newspaper’s… Read more »
Sugar Buys Online Shopping Startup MyPerfectSale
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Women-oriented blog network Sugar Inc. has made another small acquisition. The company, which has been steadily diversifying its revenue bey… Read more »
