RetailMeNot Acquires Pickie for Personalized Shopping App

Online coupon site RetailMeNot announced on Tuesday that it will acquire the team behind personalized shopping startup Pickie, according to TechCrunch.

Pickie provides an email newsletter and iPad app to show customers products that they would like to buy, based on their interests and by friends on social networks.

As part of the deal, Pickie will be shut down immediately, and some members of the company will move to Austin to become part of RetailMeNot.

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