GigaOm by Ryan Kim | January 14, 2012 - Don Kingsborough could have called it quits. The man who founded Worlds of Wonder Toys, famous for Teddy Ruxpin and helping lead the introduction of Nintendo in the U.S., and the former president of of consumer products at Atari, was just winding down his time last year at Blackhawk [...]
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PayPal Looks to Expand in Boston
Boston Globe by Scott Kirsner | January 13, 2012 - PayPal, the electronic payments arm of Internet auction site eBay Inc., is looking to add as many as “several hundred’’ jobs to its Boston operations, company officials said, becoming the latest name-brand technology company to expand its local presence. Governor Deval Patrick and Lieutenant Governor Timothy [...]
PayPal: Mobile Payments and Location-Based Offers Go Hand-In-Hand
GigaOm by Ryan Kim | January 3, 2012 – As we have been reporting, PayPal is gearing up to launch an in-store payment system that will compete with Google Wallet, Isis, Square and others. But the company isn’t just building out a point-of-sale transaction network. It’s looking to engage consumers well before they set foot [...]
eBay Uses WHERE to Send Shoppers to Local Chain Stores
eCommerceBytes by Ina Steiner | January 2, 2012 – In April, eBay acquired WHERE, a provider of location-based services including mobile advertising and search and recommendation services. WHERE CEO Walt Doyle explained on the PayPal blog last week how WHERE fits in with PayPal’s vision of helping brands reach consumers in multiple ways. Doyle described [...]
Using Google’s Data to Reach Consumers
The New York Times by Andrew Adam Newman | December 22, 2011 – THE viruses that Google researchers usually focus on are those that strike computers, but in recent years, they have studied those that infect people, too. Google correlated billions of flu-related Web searches from 2003 to 2008 with actual Centers for Disease Control [...]
I live in Boston, and there’s an app for that: 5 must-have apps for Bostonians
Boston.com by Whitney Prior | November 11, 2011 BOSTON – As someone who is never without my iPhone, I can say with some level of confidence that I know a thing or two about what makes an awesome mobile app. And since an iPad is out of my budget and my laptop is packed away [...]
CEO of Where, Walt Doyle Joins Celtra’s Board of Directors
BostonInnovation by Gregory Gomer | October 4, 2011 BOSTON – Cambridge based Celtra has just made a big strategic move in appointing a new board member. According to an announcement today by Celtra, current president and CEO of Where, Inc., Walt Doyle, will be joining Celtra’s Board of Directors. Celtra offers the most flexible and [...]
Mobile ad market gets more muscle
USA Today by Jon Swartz | July 15th, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — The mobile-ad market is scorching hot, in part because companies are getting more comfortable with using those ads to reach the third of American adults who own smartphones. That shift is coming despite consumer concerns about privacy and the amount of detailed data [...]
eBay to Acquire WHERE, a Leading Location Media Company
eBay Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WHERE, a leading location media company and local discovery mobile application. WHERE is expected to enhance the company’s position in local and mobile commerce and deepen its ability to connect retailers with consumers. Founded in 2004, WHERE is a Boston-based business at the forefront of the [...]
Mobile App Talent Pool Is Shallow
The Wall Street Journal by Joe Light | April 15th, 2011 This year, magazine publisher Hearst Corp. intends to add five software engineers to its mobile development staff. Social-networking company Ning Inc. plans to nearly double its mobile development team. And Web start-up Where Inc. is on track to double its mobile staff this year [...]
