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Groupon clone of the day: Jump On It

by Faith Merino, December 23, 2010 | Comments

The group-buying site is the Groupon of Australia

With two days left to go in our 12 Days of Groupon Clones, we’re going down under to explore Jump On It, Australia’s largest group-buying platform which launched in May of this year. Founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneurs Colin Fabig, James Gilbert, and Adam Rigby, the startup is based out of Sydney’s lower North Shore and operates in 13 ...

Pew releases study on politics and mobile

by Faith Merino, December 23, 2010 | Comments

Report finds 26% of adults used their cell phones to get election campaign information

It’s common knowledge that if you want up-to-the-minute information on a political election, you turn to Twitter. These days, that’s as easy as whipping out your cell phone. A new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that more than a quarter of American adults did just that during the 2010 mid-terms. Some 26% of ...

Parker app helps drivers find parking spaces

by Faith Merino, December 22, 2010 | Comments

The app shows available, nearby parking spaces in real-time on drivers' iPhones

Today I witnessed a Christmas miracle. This afternoon, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa and Streetline CEO Zia Yusuf together announced the launch of the Parker app for iPhone, an app that shows drivers in real-time where to find nearby, available parking in a garage or metered space. Sorry if the “Christmas miracle” thing offended anyone—that could probably offend people on both ...

Groupon clone of the day: DealOn

by Faith Merino, December 22, 2010 | Comments

	A Groupon clone with a twist Today’s Groupon Clone is one that’s taking the group buying phenomenon to the next level: not only is it offering deals of 50% off or more, but as more people sign up, the price gets lower. Yes, like a fierce poker game, it is seeing Groupon’s collective buying platform and raising it with friend-referral. The company is called DealOn and ...
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Amazon rumored to sell 8M Kindles in 2010

by Faith Merino, December 22, 2010 | Comments

By comparison, Apple is predicted to sell 12M iPads this year

Amazon is rumored to be on track to sell eight million Kindles in 2010, Bloomberg reported late Tuesday. The information comes from two unnamed sources with knowledge of the super-secret sales figures. Previously, analysts predicted that Amazon would sell five million Kindles in 2010, and Goldman Sachs Inc. predicted that the company would sell between four million and five million ...

Best shopping sites for the hard-to-buy-for

by Faith Merino, December 22, 2010 | Comments

Everyone has the hard-to-buy-for friend/relative, so here are my top picks among online retail sites

Show of hands: who hasn’t started their holiday shopping yet? Me! It’s not that I don’t care, I’m just an inveterate procrastinator and try as I might, I can’t seem to do my Christmas shopping until the week before. This makes shopping for my hard-to-shop-for friends and family all the more difficult, because I like a challenge. So here is ...

Clean tech company Elevance raises $100M

by Faith Merino, December 21, 2010 | Comments

The company produces clean, high-performance chemicals for personal care, detergents, and fuel

Elevance Renewable Sciences announced Tuesday that it has closed a $100 million Series C round led by Naxos Capital Partners, with participation from Total Energy Ventures International, TPG Biotech, TPG Growth. Founded in 2007, Elevance produces speciality ingredients in personal care products, detergents, lubricants, and fuel from renewable feedstocks and natural oils. The company uses the Nobel Prize-winning technology known ...

Biofuel company LS9 closes $30M round

by Faith Merino, December 21, 2010 | Comments

The company gets support for its renewable fuels from BlackRock

Industrial biotechnology company LS9 announced Tuesday morning the close of a $30 million round of funding led by BlackRock, a firm with over $3 trillion in assets. All of LS9’s previous investors also participated in this round, including Khosla Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Chevron's CTTV Investments. With a name like LS9, you know the company has ...

Google social researcher leaves for Facebook

by Faith Merino, December 21, 2010 | Comments

Paul Adams worked on Buzz, Latitude, YouTube, and Gmail

Another Googler has dumped Google for Facebook, but this one may sting a little more than the others. Paul Adams, Google’s research lead for social, announced Monday evening via Twitter that he is leaving Google for Facebook. “After 4 years in the awesome Google UX team it’s time for a change + I’m excited to be joining Facebook in the ...

Groupon clone of the day: Youa Tuangou

by Faith Merino, December 21, 2010 | Comments

The newest Groupon clone is a project of China's largest search engine, Baidu

I knew that Youa Tuangou was a Chinese website, but for some reason, I thought that once I got to the website, the copy would suddenly all fall into place and I would be able to navigate around with ease. No such luck. It turns out, I can’t read Chinese. Nevertheless, Youa Tuangou, which translates in Chinese to “group buy,” ...

Mint.com takes financial ed. to middle school

by Faith Merino, December 20, 2010 | Comments

Mint.com's parent company Intuit has partnered with Scholastic

I wish I’d had a more thorough financial education growing up. The end of each monthly bill-paying session ends in tears when I look at my bank statement and realize where all of my money has gone. To keep other children from growing up to end up like me, Mint.com’s parent company Intuit announced Monday morning a partnership with Scholastic ...

Groupon gets Amazon exec as new CFO

by Faith Merino, December 20, 2010 | Comments

The company has hired Jason Child, who brings 12 years of experience with Amazon to Groupon

Groupon welcomed a new addition to the family this week. The company announced Monday morning that former Amazon VP of finance Jason Child will now be Groupon’s chief financial officer, bringing along his 12 years of experience at Amazon and seven years of experience as a CPA and consulting manager at Arthur Andersen. “Jason brings a wealth of e-commerce expertise ...

Sony confident Google TV will take off

by Faith Merino, December 20, 2010 | Comments

Despite struggles with TV networks, Sony expects Google TV to come out on top

Sony is keeping a stiff upper lip despite major setbacks to Google TV. Sony’s executive deputy president Hiroshi Yoshioka on Monday told reporters at a press event that Sony’s sales of Google TVs were roughly what the company expected to see, though Yoshioka did not give actual numbers, the New York Times reported. Sony’s TV division has struggled over the ...

Groupon clone of the day: The Big Deal

by Faith Merino, December 20, 2010 | Comments

Angie's List offers steep discounts for members and non-members alike on home and other services

Monday’s Groupon clone of the day is brought to you by Angie’s List, with its social shopping feature, The Big Deal. Like other collective buying platforms, The Big Deal offers steep discounts that can only be activated once a minimum number of people sign up. Launched in the summer of 2010, The Big Deal has a few little Angie’s List-specific ...

Groupon clone of the day: Tippr

by Faith Merino, December 19, 2010 | Comments

Tippr's impressive array of patents reveals a unique group-buying strategy

Today’s Groupon clone of the day is Tippr, which emerged in February 2010 with an impenetrable net of patents and has already acquired two companies. The site differs ever-so-slightly from other group buying sites in that it offers not one, but three deals per city each day, and the company claims that its “Tippsters,” or on-the-ground scouts, have bought every ...

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