Will SXSW Reveal the Next Technology Trend?
SXSW opened up big doors for Twitter, but do all businesses that get accolades at the festival go on to greatness? We look back at past award winners to see how they fared.
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My Mom's 3 Biggest Money Management Secrets Revealed
Everything I ever needed to know to succeed in life, I learned from my mother. Although I didn't realize it at the time, her maternal management even taught me how to make the most of my money. Here are the three best tricks she ever showed me, and how you can make them work for you.
Did Facebook Ruin the IPO Party for Everyone Else?
After Facebook's belly flop of an IPO, the next major dot-com slated to go public -- popular travel website Kayak -- is slowing down. And its not just Kayak: Twitter, LivingSocial and several others are now in an IPO holding pattern too.
5 Money-Smart Apps for Business Travelers
Business travelers are still taking to the air despite the uncertain economy, but they're being a lot more careful about their spending. Here's a look at five apps that can help you make the most of your business travel budget.
4 Types of 'Social Shopper': Which One Are You?
In a digital era defined by sites like Facebook, Foursquare and Groupon, a new breed of consumers has emerged: social shoppers, people increasingly relying on the wisdom of the digital crowd to help them make their purchasing decisions. Sound like someone you know? Read on ...
Best of the Financial Web: The Monitor Award Winners
Tens of millions of Americans take to the Web regularly to do our most important financial business. As we do, the company Corporate Insight is tracking which institutions are offering customers the best new online innovations. Here's what CI found:
5 Foodie Sites That Can Find You Fine Meals for Less
Frugal foodies, rejoice! A growing list of websites is making it easier to indulge in culinary adventures that won't take a big bite out of your wallet. Here are five sites designed to help you find foodie-worthy restaurants that are affordable, too.
What Insurers Could Do With Your 'Social Media Score'
Here's yet another reason to watch what you say and do online: Insurance companies are already surfing social media sites to get the scoop about their customers, and what their data-miners find may soon be compiled into a new way to rate you as a risk: a social networking score.
Check Out Who's Checking In at Facebook HQ
Before Facebook goes public next year, it wants to know a bit more about what you do when you're out in public. The social networking giant is acquiring geo-social app startup Gowalla.
Where the Geeks Are: Dispatches From SXSW 2011
With 20,000 attendees and corporate outposts by the score, this year's South by Southwest Interactive has a carnival-like atmosphere. From its origin as a sort of spring break for nerds, the event has grown into something more like Disneyland for adults.
What Facebook's Goldman Deal Says About Tech IPOs
Facebook and many other tech startups have realized that the hassles and headaches of an IPO in the U.S. aren't always worthwhile. Thanks to willing venture capitalists and private investors, it's easier than ever for tech companies to avoid the lure of going public.
Three Tech Trends to Watch in 2011
What's to look forward to in tech for 2011? Here are a few: Consolidation in enterprise computing, a check-in shakeout (Foursquare's Dennis Crowley pictured) and a surge in crowd-sourcing businesses.
Why Is New York VC Fred Wilson Raising So Much Money?
Wilson is known as the dean of New York City venture capitalists, an emerging community that has tracked nicely with the rapid uptick in startups in the Big Apple. Now, the word is out that he's raising a new $200 million seed-stage venture fund. Here's why.
Can Gowalla 3 Put Foursquare in Check?
Check-in service Gowalla was always prettier than mobile social network leader FourSquare, but it still could never catch up with its rival. Its new version, Gowalla 3, could change that: It allows users to easily check in on multiple social networks and track friends across them. Goodbye, check-in fatigue; hello competition.
Yelp Targets FourSquare With Merchant Check-In Rewards
San Francisco local ratings giant Yelp rolled out a new offering last week that allows merchants to provide rewards or discounts to Yelp users who check in at stores or restaurants. This move has been long anticipated as Yelp battles FourSquare.
Five Ways New Tech Is Changing Stores -- and Shopping
With retailers moving out of crisis mode, they're back to investing in new bells and whistles for their stores and websites. Such as: Apps that send coupons to your smartphone or digicams that let you post pictures of a dress you're considering to your Facebook page.
Memo to Gowalla: To Catch Foursquare, You Need Better Offers
To get me and the masses of Americans to check in more often, I think Gowalla, like Foursquare, will have to find a better way to show me the do-re-mi.
Daily Blogwatch: The Latest Perk of Working for Google
Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including posts on a misunderstanding about kickbacks at Foursquare, the second stimulus plan and the latest in Google perks: servants for its employees.
Facebook Takes on Foursquare with More 'Deals'
Facebook is adding a new feature: deals from businesses if you check in. Sound familiar? Foursquare, Gowalla already offer deals to their users, and Yelp also plans to introduce "check-in offers" this month. But Facebook has a lot more users.
Daily Blogwatch: Should Twitter Be Worth More Than Facebook?
Some of Monday's best online stories for investors: Why Steve Jobs is a success; how Pharmathene could go from $2 to $20; and why Twitter is massively undervalued when compared with Facebook.
Yahoo Rumored to Be Pursuing a Deal for Groupon
Rumors are flying that Yahoo is hot on the heels of deal-of-the-day website Groupon, with valuations pegged at $2 billion and higher. But is this a good way for Yahoo to spend its cash?
FourSquare Co-Founder: Credit Card Links and More User Rewards Likely
FourSquare co-founder Dennis Crowley predicts credit cards may soon link to social networking websites, and consumers may be incentivized to actively promote advertisers' products and services.
Motorola Buys Location-Based Software Firm Aloqa
Motorola is snapping up location-based software maker Aloqa as part of its strategy to differentiate its smartphones with the help of software. Aloqa's technology pushes information to smartphone users about events or special offers from merchants near their locations.
Venture Capital 3.0: InLab's Radical Cure for the VC Blues
This week, Greg Doyle and his cohorts at InLab Ventures dropped a bomb on the struggling venture capital sector with the public launch of a radical new model for VC. Dubbed VC 3.0, it could revolutionize the game -- but it gores a host of Sand Hill's sacred cows in the process.
Harman Buys Aha Mobile, Sees a Location-Based Bonanza
This week, the premium audio equipment company Harman International (HAR) agreed to purchase Aha Mobile. The company essentially turns a smartphone into an in-vehicle infotainment system.
Why Foursquare Is Beating Gowalla: Location
Check-in phenom Foursquare just passed 3 million users, a milestone that cements its growing lead in mobile social networking. But how did it outrace competitor Gowalla, which was born at the same time and with arguably better technology? By having the right real world social networks, of course.
Foursquare CEO: Facebook Places Service Could 'Struggle'
In just one and a half years, Foursquare has taken social networking to a new level by offering geo-location services that allow users to notify their friends about where they are shopping, eating or drinking. And it hasn't gone unnoticed. CEO Dennis Crowley shares his thoughts on the recent launch of geo-location application Facebook Places.
