Affiliate marketing is extremely hit or miss. Most times, participants are being paid to spread the word about products they couldn't care less about, resulting in a poor experience for all parties involved. Enter Kickbooster: an affiliate network for crowdfunding campaigns. After signing up, users can share links to interesting campaigns, and receive a 10 percent referral fee when… Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
After years of working in mobile advertising, founder Niles Lichtenstein discovered a box of records from his late father. That compelled him to start putting together memories and online histories earlier, by documenting his mother's life history and how he first met his wife. That developed into an interactive timeline where he collected songs from when he started dating his wife…
It's been a little more than a year since Facebook launched its Local Awareness ads, which allow businesses to target ads at nearby users — the ones who either live within a given distance of their store or were recently nearby. Now it's improving those ads, particularly for businesses with multiple locations. The company says the ads can now include dynamic ad…
It seems like only yesterday that we were introducing you to 500's Batch 14, but Summer is gone, the demos have been done, we've picked our favs and it's time to introduce you to the next group going through 500's accelerator — 500 Startups' Batch 15. 500 Startups has a thesis of investing in many startups, some that they consider "unsexy,"…
Our collective thoughts of the future have moved from Deloreans to driverless cars in what seems like the blink of an eye. As technology advances, our mobility options have multiplied and changed, leading to the question — where are we going? It all starts with cities. The urban environment is central to the future, and how we all get around is a key component. Transportation networks…
There are few things more joyous than the birth of a new baby. Buying snow tires comes to mind as does the process of removing that little piece of dried E-Z Cheese from the spray can when you're ready to make a delicious midnight snack, but few other things even come close to the welcoming of new life into the world. Monica Royer and Andy Dunn of Monica + Andy want to help you…
While online traffic measurement firm comScore moves ahead on its $732 million deal to acquire Rentrak, it's selling another part of its business as it continues to streamline: today comScore announced that Adobe would acquire its Digital Analytix big data business intelligence service, in a deal Adobe says will close in December. The news was made public as part of comScore's…