PlacePop joins mobile loyalty program frenzy, gets funding boost
PlacePop, a company that allows any company to create and maintain virtual loyalty cards, launched their iPhone app today.
It also announced fresh funding of $1.4 million from a number of angel investors.
PlacePop wants to replace the clumsy, physical loyalty program cards people carry around in their wallets or forget in their desk drawers. So it’s joining [...]
Live from London: The Europas Awards
The Europas, the tech startup awards from TechCrunch Europe, will be streamed live from this post from 6pm tonight London time/GMT (10am SF, 1pm NYC). We’ll kick off with a startup pitch competition, followed by a panel of some of the leading lights in tech consisting of: our own Sarah Lacy, Jolicloud founder Tariq Krim, [...]
I Am Stunningly Uninterested In Diller And Malone’s Opinion Of Twitter
The Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin, reporting from the prestigious Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference for the media and business elite, says “Sun Valley: Diller and Malone Pessimistic on Twitter.”
She adds “Diller was pessimistic about Twitter’s prospects for making money,” and:
Malone said he didn’t think that an advertising model made sense on Twitter, [...]