Social Listing, a New York City startup launched last week at Tech Crunch Disrupt with a location-based mobile application to connect local buyers and sellers. The new app for both iPhone and Android aims to reinvent local classified advertisements by enabling users to sell anything, socially, locally and in realtime from their mobile phone. more…
Archive: May, 2011
The rumor mill has been churning Monday afternoon with reports that Twitter is working on its own photo-sharing service that would compete with the likes of Twitpic and Yfrog.
TechCrunch first reported the tip, citing multiple unnamed sources, Monday afternoon. more…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) reached several advertising milestones through the month of May, including passing Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) for the first time in display advertising.
Google’s U.S. display ad revenue share grew to 14.7 percent in the first quarter 2011 from 13.3 percent from the fourth quarter 2010. Yahoo’s display ad share fell to 12.3 percent from 13.6 percent in the prior quarter. more…
Another volley in the app wars: A new study that says Google’s Android App Market is stuffed full of free apps, but has very few people will pay for.
There are 72,000 paid apps in Google’s store, compared to Apple’s 211,000. But more important is the number of apps the stores are actually selling, and that’s where analytics firm Distimo weighs in. more…
There are still people who are willing to buy a second-hand vehicle from a stranger’s driveway. For them, we offer 10 questions they should be asking.
The endangered species list goes something like this: Mountain gorilla, giant panda, Javan rhinoceros . . . and private car seller.
Longtime Wheels readers may remember seeing four or five pages of classified ads, more…
Google’s NFC-enabled mobile wallet was announced this morning in partnership with mobile operator Sprint, issuing bank Citi and payment network MasterCard. But did you know that you don’t have to be a Citi card holder to try the service? As it turns out, Google is also offering a free “virtual” card which you can load up with funds from any account. more…
Any seasoned investor knows that past performance is not indicative of future returns. That is as true with public stocks as it is with venture capital firms. But if someone were to ask you to rank the top VC firms today based on their probability of success, how would you do it? Remember, looking at past returns won’t help you. more…
Retracing the steps of what happened after a social PR campaign “gone wild” is reminiscent of the movie “The Hangover.” Despite the right intentions, the plan just goes sideways when the mixing and mingling ends up with the wrong crowds, miscommunication, and bad decisions. The result can be quite a sobering (and unpleasant) experience.
Where’s the coffee and two aspirin? Waking up, looking around and realizing the plan didn’t go quite as planned can cause severe social media hangovers like these and worse. more…
