Rockfish, a company that has its fingers in digital consultancy and business incubation, announced today it has launched CouponFactory, a couponing software platform for businesses.
CouponFactory is a platform that gives brands and small businesses a simple way to create …
Online ad network Rocket Fuel announced today that it has raised $6.6 million in funding.
Founded by former executives from NASA, Yahoo! and DoubleClick, Rocket Fuel uses social, behavioral, contextual, geographical, and search data to target display advertisements to customers. …
Microsoft executives are battling internally whether it should open more retail stores, Business Insider reported today.
According to sources close to Microsoft, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner are interested in matching or exceeding the number …
Microsoft announced today that it has appointed Chris Capossela to Chief Marketing Officer and senior vice president of Consumers Channels and Central Marketing Group.
The newly created Consumer Channels Group will combine Microsoft’s Retail, Mobile Operator and Distribution teams into …
Did you know that 75 percent of all job recruiters today use Facebook to evaluate a potential candidate’s online reputation?
Social networking monitoring service Reppler launched today to help you keep your online reputation clean and free of anything that …
Flirtomatic, the mobile flirting network with over 4 million members, launched a new iPhone app today that uses GPS and Google Maps to let members time-travel to flirt with others by location.
Flirtomatic’s app, which had connected members on the …
Amazon.com, the colossal online retailer, is considering a service that would let users buy goods in stores using their mobile phones, Bloomberg Businessweek reported today.
According to two unnamed sources, the Amazon Payments unit is deciding whether to start a …
TidalTV, a video ad technology company, announced today that it has raised $30 million in funding.
The company’s product helps advertisers deliver ads to target demographics across online video, mobile video, and television. TidalTV offers what it calls “zero waste …
Have you ever sat next to a friend on the train and wanted to listen to the music he or she was listening to, only to be forced to uncomfortably share headphones? MyStream, which is launching its free iPhone app …
Customer relationship management giant Salesforce announced today that it has acquired social media monitoring company Radian6 for $326 million.
Radian6 was founded on the premise that businesses need to monitor the social web in order to effectively join conversations. Its …
Limos.com, an online marketplace for limousine services, announced this morning that it has raised $10 million in funding.
Limos.com, which provides online bookings and consumer reviews, has become the largest marketplace for limo services, the company said. The company pre-screens …
CertiVox, an information security startup, announced this morning that it has raised $1.46 million in funding.
CertiVox provides application and content security, as well as on-demand encryption key generation services. The company’s cloud-based infrastructure aims to satisfy the need for …
Legolas Media, a next generation audience marketplace, has raised $5 million in a second round of funding.
The mission of Legolas Media is to provide insights to allow for more precise advertisement targeting. The company does this by providing a …
Apple announced today that Bertrand Serlet, Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering, would be leaving the company.
Since joining the company in 1997, Serlet has played a critical role in developing Apple’s operating system, Mac OS X. Although not …
Brilig, an advertising data marketplace, has raised $1.8 million in funding.
The company provides a platform for individuals and companies to buy and sell data. This allows sellers to profit from their data and gives buyers access to a library …
The servers of RSA, the security division of information storage giant EMC, have been breached and sensitive information from more than 40 million employees may have been compromised.
The information at risk is the two-factor authentication tokens used by employees …
FriendFinder Networks, an internet holding company for some of the most popular dating and adult-oriented websites in the world, including FriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder.com, and Cams.com, has filed to go public for second time.
The company plans to use the proceeds to …
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Visa took on PayPal today in the personal payment space, announcing that consumers in the U.S. would be able to receive and send funds to any eligible Visa account.
Consumers will have the option to send personal payments from …
Pricelock, a company offering online fuel hedging and price protection for businesses in the U.S., has raised over $12 million in second-round financing.
Pricelock is the first company to use technology and commodities knowledge to bring predictability to fuel prices. …
SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based business software, has acquired social learning company Jambok.
Jambok is a software as a service (SaaS) social learning company that allows anyone in an organization to create, share and find video and other content for …
