Year: 2010

  • Cardlytics Closes $18 million of Growth Capital

    ATLANTA, website like this Aug 16, 2010 — Cardlytics, the pioneer of transaction marketing, announced today that it has raised $18 million in new equity to support its rapid expansion. New investors ITC Holdings and Kinetic Ventures led this round of financing and all previous investors participated including Canaan Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, and Total Technology…

  • Is Apple Bringing Mobile Payments To iPhone?

    I can say that I have always felt that the Southern United State has a number of stellar schools and that they need to be promoted more, web especially outside the region.  Well while helping my oldest spawn look for a school, viagra we ran into this promotion for Georgia Tech. Take a look I think…

  • Dell Streak… I Got Mine!

    I was able to get my hands on a Dell Streak on Friday and have been playing with it over the weekend.  In case you don’t know, about it Dell brought this oversize cell phone to market on Friday.  Dell calls it a… Well I am not sure what Dell calls its. Dell’s website refers to…

  • Who is getting VC money this year?

    Who is getting VC money this year? Marty Zwilling does a great job in starting to answer this in his new article Who Is Getting Venture Capital Money This Year, anabolics which walks through CB Insights report Venture Capital Human Capital. “Ninja Assassin” Entrepreneurs: “What I’m looking for is what I call a Ninja assassin…

  • Insights into Innovating via Mobile Devices

    Hey, hemorrhoids you rock star, you. You know all about innovating through mobility, right? You do the text messaging and the digital coupons. You’re even developing the app your boss wants. You’re mirroring what you have on your website. All in all, you have it under control. Yep, you can check another item off your…

  • Top Recruiter Finds Adaptable Executives in High Demand

    One area of the job market is growing far beyond the others – executive and senior management roles with proven track records of adapting to new technologies, advice with health care, buy more about financial services and technology taking the lead. The WSJ recently interviewed  Clarke Murphy, head of the global CEO and board-services practice…

  • Study: Americans Spent $168M On Mobile Virtual Goods Last Year

    Hey, hemorrhoids you rock star, you. You know all about innovating through mobility, right? You do the text messaging and the digital coupons. You’re even developing the app your boss wants. You’re mirroring what you have on your website. All in all, you have it under control. Yep, you can check another item off your…

  • Google Wave….Bye Bye!

    According to Google, pharmacist Google Wave will be saying adios in the next few months.  In a post filled with examples of Wave’s innovations and strengths, women’s health they acknowledge that the real-time messaging and collaboration tool hasn’t caught on the way they thought it would. However, the code and tools used for / by…

  • A Community for Cloud Computing!

    New analysis from Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Consumer Location-based Services (LBS) Market – The Wireless Carrier Opportunity, doctor finds that the wireless carrier-generated segment of the North American consumer LBS market amounted to on-deck application software revenues of approximately $718 million in 2009 and forecasts this to reach $1.58 billion in 2015.  Read…

  • Your detergent is spying on you!

    Since a number of us who write for this blog have a background with Navigation / GPS technology, more about I thought I would post this little bit of odd usage for GPS technology.  It seems Unilever’s Omo detergent (Sold in Latin America, primarily in Brazil)  is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent…