A year ago, few expected Angry Birds or Groupon to be among 2010’s stars, but the underlying trends that powered their success were plain enough. So picking individual companies to rise or fall this year isn’t worthwhile. What …
Ever since rebuffing Microsoft’s takeover bid, Yahoo has been keen to placate angry shareholders, and Carol Bartz’s latest moves are doing that still. But by failing to keep up with true social networking a la Facebook, Yahoo r…
As more shoppers spend their money online, retailers are deciding where to put their e-marketing. According to a new ForeSee study, promotional emails were still far more effective at driving traffic to retail sites than social…
Here’s a new foundation for a social network app: Storytelling. The just-debuted application called Broadcastr lets people record audio stories tagged to geographical locations. The plan: Contributors will create compelling tal…
Check-in service Gowalla was always prettier than mobile social network leader FourSquare, but it still could never catch up with its rival. Its new version, Gowalla 3, could change that: It allows users to easily check in on m…