How to get your business ready for location based marketing
I think my stance on vouchers and location is well known, I am delighted to see it coming to Ireland and now its possible to market your venue based on location using Foursquare.
Imagine being able to compete against the “coffee shop” around the corner by offering a free “Top-Up”.
So how do you do it?
Well if [...]
The schoolbag of the future.
I have been dwelling over the schoolbook space for quite a while now and noticing some really interesting companies in the space.
Primary among these is Chegg a book rental scheme which saves renters 50-75% on these retail cost of college books and says it has saved its customers almost $200 million.
An interesting announcement from Chegg [...]
Withings, helping this slob turn over a new leaf in 2010
As I said in my last post 2010 involves some big changes for me.
I have this urge to get fit and not to die young, its that serious.
One of the really cool devices which I have purchased is Withings a wifi enabled scales which pushes your weight to where you decide.
I have decided its going [...]
Skype sold to Netscape founder
It seems like the rumours that I have been hearing for the last five to six weeks have been confirmed.
Skype has been sold.
Reuters are quoting two sources this morning confirming that the purchaser is a group headed by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen.
Whilst the price being mentioned is around $1.8 billion I believe that this will [...]