Gigaom: IfOnly raises $12M led by NEA to let you hobnob with the rich and...
San Francisco-based IfOnly has raised $12 million for an online marketplace of high-end experiences with A-list talent in a range of fields like sports, music and food, Want to spend the…
View ArticleResearch: Yahoo’s Best Merger Partner
Information collected based off of yahoo's best merger partner. Most said Microsoft with 26 percent. While 20 percent said other.
View ArticleResearch: Hey, retailers, mobile marketing isn’t that scary
A recent survey indicates while some retailers are increasing their mobile marketing spends, many others are staying on the sidelines as the market evolves. That's a shame because some basic mobile…
View ArticleResearch: Competitive impact of Pinterest
The majority of respondents to a Gigaom Research survey thought Tumblr would be the most directly impacted. This is not surprising, since Tumblr is positioned as a social blogging platform and…
View ArticleGigaom: Uber hires former Amazon/Groupon exec as chief product officer
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…
View ArticleGigaom: Groupon will provide almost all of its merchants with iPad-based cash...
Businesses running Groupon promotions will be required to use an iPad-based cash register running Groupon's Breadcrumb point-of-sale software and payment processing.
View ArticleGigaom: Comcast says it’s beta testing email encryption after Google calls it...
The media giant is beta testing TLS encryption, a protocol that allows for emails to be encrypted. The news came after Google singled out some mail providers on poor encryption services.
View ArticleGigaom: Priceline buys OpenTable $2.6B: Are meal deals on the horizon?
OpenTable tried offering daily restaurant deals but canned the service. Priceline could revive that model using its own travel and entertainment discounting tools.
View ArticleResearch: The mobile commerce market in 2014
Consumers and business users alike are increasingly making transactions via mobile devices, and the growing importance of this channel is spurring companies to shift resources towards mobility...
View ArticleKonekt gets $1.3M to create a Twilio for cellular connectivity
The cellular industry has been plugging the internet of things for years under the "machine to machine" moniker, but it never caught on until smartphones, ubiquitous Wi-Fi, and cheaper sensors finally…
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