Rearden Commerce, the personal concierge company, adds expense management
Rearden Commerce, the Silicon Valley company wanting to be your personal concierge for things like booking travel or restaurants, says it’s growing quickly.
First, it has acquired ExpenseWire, a company that will help it add business expense management to its offering. Under the terms, Wooster, Ohio-based ExpenseWire, will continue to serve its other customers.
Second, the Foster City, Calif.-based Rearden Commerce said it has added more than 800 corporate customers and 500,000 contracted individual users in the… Continue Reading
Rearden Commerce extends mobile concierge deal with American Express
Rearden Commerce wants to be your personal concierge on your mobile phone (our coverage).
Now its got the world’s largest travel management company, American Express, encouraging you to use it.
Rearden Commerce, which offers you a way to view and organize travel plans, personal entertainment and more with your phone, has just signed a deal with American Express to become the mobile service of choice for the credit card company’s corporate and other travel customers.
Under the deal,… Continue Reading
Rearden Commerce launches “Mobile Personal Assistant”
Rearden Commerce, the Silicon Valley company that offers a digital concierge service online, has launched its mobile version.
I first talked about the Rearden’s mobile service, called a “Mobile Personal Assistant” earlier this month. It offers ways to keep travel itineraries, track weather, manage your calendar and more. It gives you status updates and alerts around these items, and features a carousel that lets you reel through the items easily (see arrow in image, which points… Continue Reading
Rearden Commerce raises $100M, will launch mobile concierge service
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Rearden Commerce, a Silicon Valley company that wants to become your personal concierge everywhere, including on your mobile phone, has raised $100 million in funding from some financial powerhouses.
So far, the company has worked for years on a web-based personal assistant service, which lets you do everything from book travel arrangements to manage your calendar. But the company recently demoed its coming mobile service to VentureBeat. It is preparing for a major offensive in mobile,… Continue Reading
Roundup: Mashups at Web 2.0, Linden Lab gets new executive and more
Here’s the latest action:
Mashup companies take over Web 2.0 — InfoWorld profiles three companies making announcements at this week’s conference: Serena, which is launching an online marketplace for business mashups; JackBe, which has a new version of its enterprise mashup platform; and Kapow, which provides a hosted service to build mashups that provide web intelligence. We’ll also be writing more about Rearden Commerce and Zude in the next few days. And we just covered SnapLogic,… Continue Reading