Companies & Executives
With Shopkick, Target Takes On Showrooming
The Minneapolis retailer is using Shopkick, a mobile shopping app, to give its shoppers nationwide deals for items bought in store. It’s another move that wards off showrooming.
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Signpost Makes Deal With Newspaper Biggies
Advertising platform Signpost has sealed a deal to provide local merchant-provided content to Digital First Media, which manages two of the largest U.S. newspaper companies, MediaNews Group and the Journal Register Co., reaching 57 million Americans in 18 states.
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Ark Floats, Olive Branch Unseen
What would Facebook and Google do together if they weren’t trying to destroy each other? In it’s simplest form the answer to that question is probably build a search engine for social networks.
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Michael Moritz Cuts Back
Health concerns have forced legendary investor Michael Moritz, who backed Google among other companies, to pull back from his daily management role at Sequoia Capital.
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Teach the Internet to Forget
The author of Digital Vertigo says that privacy is a valuable commodity, and those who can teach the Internet to forget will reap rewards for their efforts.
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The Lies of Moneyball and Online Advertising
Many ad professionals can relate to the Billy Beane-Oakland A's story because they are seeing data transform their industry. But there’s data, there’s big data, and there’s data overload.
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Teach the Internet to Forget
The author of Digital Vertigo says that privacy is a valuable commodity, and those who can teach the Internet to forget will reap rewards for their efforts.
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What Made Groupon Go Pop?
When Groupon reported earnings that beat analyst expectations Monday, it was good news for the company, but now Wall Street regulators are reportedly looking into why its stock price popped before its earnings were released.
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Why the Other Entrepreneurial Zuckerberg Left Facebook
As Facebook went public, sister to the CEO Randi Zuckerberg elicited laughs at a women's business conference when she explained her decision to leave the social network she helped found for her own startup and how she had once hoped to be an opera singer.
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Becoming a Startup to Watch
Entrepreneurs always hope and believe that their idea will catch on, but how can they know for sure? One good sign: being an honoree at a penthouse party with cocktails and views of the New York City skyline.
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Inside Companies & Executives
- Signpost Makes Deal With Newspaper Biggies
- Entourage Star Disrupts Beer Industry
- Startups That Lit Up the Scene
- Accountants Join the Cloud Party
- With Shopkick, Target Takes On Showrooming
- Airtime Attracts Star Power, Venture Funding
- The Ghosts of AOL Past
- Salmon Startup Swims Against Tide
- Michael Moritz Cuts Back
- Ark Floats, Olive Branch Unseen
- In Fashion, the Human Touch Beats Algorithms
- The Jewelry Store That Thinks Like an Apple Store
- Why the Other Entrepreneurial Zuckerberg Left Facebook
- Who Loses From Tepid Facebook Offering?
- Countdown Looms for Space Startup
Can Facebook Make Mobile Pay?
Facebook admits in its latest initial public offering regulatory filing that the shift to mobile could hit its business. But the company is moving to shore up its mobile game with the purchase of Instagram and the launch of its own app store.
Are You Wiki-Worthy?
A couple of Brooklyn men will write a profile about you for Wikipedia. But only if you’re worthy.
Top Private Companies
Many thriving companies don't report earnings and don't answer to a board of directors. A look at the largest private players around the country. (Sponsored by Deloitte)
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Bagels With a Schmear of Geek
Since tech startups tend to be magnets for funding and attention, it stands to reason that other types of startups would look to their business plans for inspiration. But a bagel shop?
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