Pegged by GlobalWebIndex as the fastest-growing social media site in 2014, all eyes are on Pinterest right now. And with an anticipated valuation of around $11 billion, it’s turning heads. Last week, Pinterest secured another $186 million round of funding led by Goldman Sachs and...
Tugboat Yards – a startup that helps content creators connect with their fans for financial support – has been acquired by Facebook, who will soon be shutting the whole thing down. Tugboat allows publishers (and other online content controllers) to tap into their fan base by...
Send a tweet, get a pizza delivered to your door. That’s the thinking behind Domino’s upcoming “tweet to order” service, set to debut May 20. Once the feature is in place, notes USA Today, the pizza chain will be the first big-name restaurant to implement...
“We don’t have any plans to announce a buy button at this time.” Thus spoke Eva Smith, Pinterest’s head of marketing and communications insights, commenting on the social media site’s user study, according to The Wall Street Journal. That study found overall that users don’t...
It is a good time to be Lending Club. Shares in the P2P lending platform ticked up 4 percent this week, according to the Associated Press, following a stronger than expected Q1 result and a revised outlook for the rest of the year that has improved,...
A real estate development and investment company is looking to crowd some hotels — or at least fund them that way. iCrowd Hotels Inc. announced yesterday (May 4) the launch of its namesake crowdfunding platform. Focused on the millenial market, the company touts the platform...
Chase kicked off National Small Business Week with a bang, to the tune of (an eventual) $2 million in grants to the type of companies being celebrated. Yesterday (May 4), the bank announced the launch of its 2015 Mission Main Street Grants program, which will...
Pinterest’s API isn’t just for marketers anymore. The virtual scrapbooking site announced yesterday (May 4) the beta version of the Pinterest Developers Platform, which is a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow developers to build apps and integrations based on Pinterest users’ Pins,...
As the physical and digital worlds of retail continue to interweave, more and more beacon solution providers across the market are recognizing the need for retailers to have better tools to gather data on their customers. But Gimbal, for one, is in a unique spot,...
