CreditScore.net, a personal finance blog focusing on credit and debt topics, generated an infographic offering an overview of the slowly disappearing daily-deals industry. This is a dark, visually driven tale of the deals industry’s decline. It includes the following information: Groupon turned down Google’s $6 billion offer in 2010, but is now worth about half […]

WonderVoice is a new app that essentially serves as a “Siri for Facebook.” The app, which is available in the U.S. and Canada, allows mobile users to access and interact with Facebook using their voice. WonderVoice reads a user’s News Feed, messages and events, and allows users to update their status, see who’s online, see […]

Social network Tagged, which aims to help users meet new people, has acquired location-based social discovery app Urbantag. “The acquisition will contribute significantly to Tagged’s social discovery business and to its focus on mobile,” the press release about the acquisition stated. Urbantag will fill Tagged’s need for local discovery. Tagged recently raised $15 million in […]

Shopkick, the location-based shopping app, has revamped its app to add digital catalogs and give users the ability to save product lists. The 3.0 version of the app introduces “lookbooks” that include must-have items. Shopkick is also enabling users to tag and like certain products within the app and save them to lists. When a […]

On Monday, Foursquare unveiled a brand-new home page that prominently features its Foursquare Explore search tool, which is now open to anyone, even if they’re not signed in to an account. It was a bold move and a warning shot in the direction of big local-search players like Yelp and Google. The title of Foursquare’s […]

By Paul Taylor, founder and CEO of Webmarketing123

Klout as a Resume Filter?
There has been a lot of debate surrounding Klout this week after Salesforce revealed they are using Klout scores as a factor in their hiring process.

OpenTable announced a free service for its restaurant customers to optimize their websites for the small screens on mobile devices. The service, powered by DudaMobile, aims to enable restaurants to make their sites mobile-friendly “without sacrificing the branding and elegance of the restaurant’s desktop website.” According to OpenTable, reservations booked on mobile devices accounted for […]

According to a report from General Sentiment, Facebook is the top global brand, generating $751 million of “Impact Media Value.” Apple was No. 2 with a brand value of $657 million, followed by Google with a brand value of $547 million and MTV with a brand value of $536 million. Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Disney […]

According to SophosLabs’ latest “Dirty Dozen” report, India led all countries when it came to relaying spam from July through September, accounting for 16.1 percent of the world’s spam. This was the third quarter in a row that India led the world with this regretful distinction. Italy followed with 9.4 percent, while the U.S. accounted […]

GPS navigation company Telenav has acquired Los Angeles-based ThinkNear, a hyperlocal mobile ad startup, for $22.5 million. Telenav will fold ThinkNear into a new mobile local advertising platform called Scout Advertising. The platform will enable retail stores, restaurants and other businesses to advertise to targeted audiences. Scout Advertising purports to get the targeting down to […]