Today it became known, via the Wall Street Journal, that the Yahoo board has approved the $1.1 billion offer for Tumblr, a microblogging service and social destination. It’s a good thing, too, as Tumblr is poor, and revenue-low. It’s even better for the firm as it cashes out all of its investors as a positive…
Foursquare on Tuesday announced that more restaurant menus have arrived in the service’s Explore section. Furthermore, the company is working on incorporating price and service lists for non-restaurant businesses as well. The first part is possible via a new partnership Foursquare has struck with Locu, the menu dashboard for local merchants. Back in January 2012,…
Visa has updated Visa Offers, a rewards scheme that helps retailers and merchants offer exclusive discounts to Visa cardholders at the point-of-sale, with instant discounts, real-time analytics and support for third-party offer programs today. The idea is to remove the need both for physical rewards cards and purpose-built smartphone apps by tying the rewards scheme to…
Evernote Food has been updated once again for iOS devices with improved Foursquare integration, new recipe partners and an auto-lock feature to stop your iPhone or iPad from going to sleep in the kitchen. Evernote has been expanding its Food app beyond a simple recipe and note-taking service for sometime. The company is leveraging Foursquare…
We’ve all been in that situation. It’s late, you’re in the middle of nowhere and all you want – above all else – is a glorious, delicious slice of pizza. Now, you could download an app like Foursquare or Yelp to take a look at all of the businesses around you and then dive down…
This hasn’t been a great year for Foursquare. “Check-ins are no longer what they used to be,” as Ingrid Lunden observed last month. There seems to be a general consensus that “Foursquare keeps resembling Yelp more and more…” but that comparison isn’t necessarily flattering, especially since there’s little doubt that Yelp has much greater public…
Today at a developer meetup at Twitter, the company demoed some new technology that will see its existing ‘Cards’ feature to allow for three new capabilities: mobile app linking, photo galleries, and product information, such as price. Regarding app linking, inside of the updated cards, connections to mobile applications can be included. On the company’s developer…
Tableau Software in Seattle recently released a new data visualisation platform with new APIs. But it wasn’t in the cloud and we were, er, unimpressed. Meanwhile, Ducksboard in Spain is trying to disrupt the space with its own real-time dashboard for tracking internal metrics and web services. But now there’s a new kid on the…
Reputami, a startup that wants to make it easier for small businesses to analyze customer feedback on social media and location-based services, has closed a seed round today with participation from the hub:raum incubator. While the final amount raised has not been disclosed, Reputami says it will be using the new investment to improve its product and hire…
Real-time Web platform Echo has announced the release of its Echo JS SDK to help developers incorporate social media into their apps. Just like mobile platforms Parse and Stackmob work with native iOS and Android apps, Echo says its SDK will enable anyone to easily create commenting systems, forums, social chatter, badges, and even business-to-business type applications.…
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