ShopKick

Consumers love to save on everyday purchases and in 2010, stores and technology combined to offer a new way to do that in the form of location-based discounts, which reward shoppers for coming into a store. The use of location-based rewards is still pretty new, but according to Sports Authority,...

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.

Today Facebook launched Deals for Places, an add-on to Facebook Places which brings discounts and deals to Facebook users at businesses large and small. The Facebook Deals will be rolling out to users over the next few days and will be delivering buy-one get-one free deals at restaurants, cheap...

This week Shopkick, an app that allows for real, verified check-ins at retail stores like Best Buy, American Eagle, Sports Authority and Macy's, launched on the iPhone. The tool allows users to launch an app on their smart phone that can detect an inaudible-to-humans sound when you walk into...

Shopkick's smartphone app combines location-based features with shopping. The hot startup's plan: When you walk into any partnering retailer, the app will alert you to deals at that store, and reward you with "Kickbucks" just for being there.

The battle to be the "mayor" of a local store or restaurant on the popular location-sharing service Foursquare is heating up as Pizza Hut begins to offer Mayors a free order of bread sticks, starting August 10th, joining the collection of retailers offering their most frequent customers a reward....