Give the gift of gifting Facebook Gifts was launched in September just in time to capture any holiday cheer that friends may want to pass on. The platform allows users to gift a ‘real’ gift or gift card to Facebook friends. During beta testing the platform was opened to a select few, however, with social [...]

A new chapter in life Maire Griffin, Director of Communications and the public relations voice at LivingSocial Incorporated is leaving the company today (Friday, December 14th). Maire signed on with LivingSocial in November of 2010 and now twenty five months later is ready to begin a new chapter in life. During her tenure at LivingSocial, [...]

Targeting millions of visitors Groupon continues to shake and bake in lieu of any rumors that the daily dealer is on the ‘for-sale’ block. The company seems to be shoring up as many platforms as possible in order to become a profitable entity. Groupon views e- commerce as a means to unload a massive amount [...]

10 million clams to work with Just last month, San Francisco based Cardfree closed a funding round that reeled in $10 million. That round was led by Chairperson Jeffrey Katz, founder of Mercury Payment Systems. Smart players can do a ton with 10 million clams, and that’s exactly what the group of mobile commerce veterans [...]

Jumped 14 spots in a week The Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance data is out and one of the big winners is Target Corporation. Target jumped 14 spots in the past week to No. 4 on Keynote’s Index. I have discussed this index in detail in the past, but the nuts and bolts of the performance [...]

Financial terms have not been disclosed Atlanta-based prepaid product and transaction services company, InComm bought a majority stake in Adility Inc. InComm, an industry leading marketer, distributor and technology innovator of stored-value gift and prepaid products, has over 225,000 partner locations. The financial terms of the agreement have yet to be announced. The reason for [...]

In violation of European data protection law An Austrian student group dubbing itself ‘Europe-v-Facebook’ feels that privacy laws have been broken. The group intends to take legal action against Facebook and is in need of financing. Is it possible that the group will use Facebook to help fund the suit? Possibly, as it turns out [...]

Net earnings more than triple For those that trade Pandora Media Incorporated shares (ticker symbol: P) it’s been a quarterly cash cow. The latest quarterly numbers that came from camp P were frickin awesome and once again, savvy traders of the shares were blessed with returns in excess of 30% during a two week trading [...]

Market cap plunges by $18 billion in the first 12 months On Friday, December 7th, Krissa Ashton of Daily Deal Media discussed what may have been behind the huge day that shares of Groupon (ticker symbol: GRPN) had. The usual suspects of short covering and trader speculation were water cooler topics and then there is [...]

What a difference a year makes Just over a year ago Groupon had just gone public and others were waiting in the wings to follow suit. Everyday my articles were plastered with job opportunities. There were literally thousands of jobs available in the daily deal industry, what a difference a year makes. This morning, the [...]