Foursquare doesn’t have a revenue problem — it has a user intent problem

Foursquare may be a great app, but it suffers from some fundamental deal-breaking paradoxes.

It’s so easy to start a company, everyone’s doing it now

Why are there so many Pinterest clones and subscription-commerce sites? It's all thanks to a decade of engineering that has made it cheaper to start a company than ever before.

Gold, silver, and bronze: the real winners of the Social Olympics

This year's Olympics earned the nickname "Socialympics." It has inspired huge waves of tweets, brought down the reputation of old media giants, and earned athletes millions of new followers.

Just Shopkick it: Mobile shopping app delivers $110M revenue to partners in 2011

More than just a nifty mobile app for consumers, Shopkick is also helping its retail and brand partners generate significant revenue. The company announced today that it drove more than $110 million in revenue to its partners in 2011, its …

Shopkick is on a mobile shopping tear with 3M users, over 1B offers viewed

Shopkick, the app that lets you earn rewards and deals simply by walking into a retail store, is kicking butt.

The company has pulled in over 3 million active users since launching over a year ago, it said today. And …

Shopkick partners with Visa to give customers more incentive to shop at a physical store

Mobile rewards startup Shopkick has partnered with credit giant Visa to incentivize purchases made within a brick and mortar retail store, the companies announced today.

Customers who shop at a handful of partnering stores now have the ability to accumulate …

Old Navy doles out deals to Shopkick app users

Discount shoppers, rejoice. Mobile shopping startup Shopkick has added Old Navy, a Gap Inc. brand, to its arsenal of retail partners, the company announced Tuesday.

With the Shopkick iPhone or Android app, you earn rewards points, called “kicks,” by just …