online marketing
Have a Free Flight to Mexico With Your Taco?
Virgin America is the latest company to use location-based apps for marketing.
Flipboard Stumbles in Its First Days
Flipboard’s early stumbles illustrate the challenges of public relations in the age of Twitter.
Readers Are Abandoning Print, Yet Don’t Trust the Web
A new report finds that even as people abandon print publications, they distrust the information they read online.
Google Ventures Funds a Search Marketing Start-Up
Google Ventures has invested in Trada, which matches small businesses with search marketing experts.
The Economics of Privacy Pricing
When you have privacy, you value it more. But when the starting point is that you don’t have privacy, you value privacy far less.
Amazon Releases Kindle App for Android Phones
Amazon is offering a free Kindle reading application for phones running Google’s Android software.
Sugar to Offer Local Deals Alongside Celebrity Gossip
Sugar Inc. enters local e-commerce by acquiring FreshGuide, a daily deals site for women.
Wikinvest Introduces Tool to Track Investments
Wikinvest, the wiki site with information about stocks, has a new tool that is like Mint for investments.
Gilt for Restaurants Comes to New York
VillageVines is a members-only site offering restaurant reservations and discounts off the bill.
Find the Cheapest Beer or Barber Near You
The Dealmap, a new site from Center’d, aims to gather all the local deals on the Web in one place.
Bon Appétit! Yelp Goes to France.
Yelp introduces Yelp France, its first non-English site, for reviewing local French businesses.
What We’re Reading: Android Gains
On the reading list: Android phone market share and Blippy’s attempt to recover from a security breach.
