loyalty programs

Those traditional rewards programs, where you receive a gift or discount once you've spent a certain amount of money? That's so 20th century. Now that companies are armed with almost limitless computer processing power and databases full of individual spending histories, it should come as no...

Billeo announced a cool new feature today that brings savings and discounts to the search results of Google, Yahoo and Bing with its new Offer Assistant service. The new Offer Assistant service provides offers from more than 300 retailers, including big names like Best Buy and Nike directly in...

If you're like most savvy shoppers out there, you have reward, coupon or other loyalty cards from retailers you frequent regularly (I've got a whole key fob's worth of those little plastic bar-code tags that goes with me when I go shopping). As the recession rolls along, though, many retailers are...