Author Archives: Joop Rijk

Tweet Even with the penetration of smartphones rising to 50% of all US mobile users by the end of the year, mobile ecommerce remains a work in progress for many medium-size and small retailers. Online retailers who did not yet … Continue reading →

Tweet Despite the sluggish US economy research firms specializing in media and advertising have only recently begun downgrading global ad spending forecasts with minuscule amounts. Domestic online ad spending forecasts have been very positive so far with eMarketer projecting a … Continue reading →

Tweet CampusBuddy, an online service where college students can access official grade records and reviews about colleges, is launching a new service called CollegeBudget, which aims to bring daily deals and group buying, including food, clothing, textbooks and student loans … Continue reading →

Tweet Glue Mobile Has Acquired Two Game Development Companies Mobile game developer Glu Mobile has acquired two game development companies to increase its game development capacity. Over the past year Glu Mobile has been active with developing free-to-play social games … Continue reading →

Tweet Livingsocial Claims Their Deals Are Working For Merchants After Business Insider published the disappointing results of a survey it conducted among businesses that had run their daily deals promotions on Groupon, competitor LivingSocial reached out with the results of … Continue reading →

Tweet Dealmap, a daily deal aggregator start-up, has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum; but certainly less than the $6 billion Google offered for Groupon last year. The acquisition provides a path forward for Google to enhance desktop … Continue reading →

Tweet Webtrends, a veteran in web analytics, claims it is taking social media and Facebook marketing to the next level with Webtrends Social. This free suite of Facebook Page management tools allows Facebook Page administrators to build apps Facebook Pages, … Continue reading →

Tweet Groupon and Foursquare have agreed to work together to bring real-time location-based Groupon Now offers to the Foursquare service. Foursquare earlier this month made similar arrangements with LivingSocial, AT&T Interactive, Gilt Groupe and others. Foursquare users in the US … Continue reading →

Tweet The latest entry in the crowded daily deal market, dominated by Groupon and LivingSocial and a host of other recent entries, including Google, Facebook and AT&T is publisher Gannett. The newspaper chain announced Tuesday it is expanding nationally a … Continue reading →

Tweet Electronic Arts Social and Mobile Game Revenues Rise in Q1 2012 Electronic Arts reported its Q1 FY2012 earnings this week with GAAP total net revenue at $999 million. This is a 22% increase compare to same quarter last year. … Continue reading →