Daily deals site Groupon today issued a pretty significant revision of the financial results it previously reported for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2011. According to the company, it actually made $14.3 million less in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2011 than it previously reported — $492.2 million, compared to the [...]
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Groupon’s Profit In 2011 Was Actually $22.6 Million Less Than They Previously Said
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“Girls Around Me” Creeper App Just Might Get People To Pay Attention To Privacy Settings
March 31st, 2012 akimolux Cult of Mac has a great write-up of an app for iOS called Girls Around Me, which essentially displays the public check-ins and profiles of girls around you. With a little shift in context it could easily be confused for a hot new startup (discoverability meets speed dating!), but no, it really is just a [...]
Hallmark Greets Digital, Acquires SpiritClips To Let You Send Photo/Video E-Cards
March 31st, 2012 akimolux Photos and video can be even more personal than a handwritten card. That’s why Hallmark has just acquired SpiritClips, an online video production and streaming service that also makes personalized digital greeting cards. It looks like Hallmark customers will soon be able to create and send e-cards by uploading their own photos or choosing from [...]
Essentials: Matthew Waldman
March 31st, 2012 akimolux Spotlighted in the latest edition of Hypebeast’s Essentials series is Matthew Waldman, Founder, President and Chief Creative Officer of New York-based design company Nooka. With an ethos based around futurism and a commitment to progress and optimism, Nooka has carved a niche for itself with its signature aesthetic, as the brand’s accessories are a culmination [...]
Casio G-Shock 2012 Spring/Summer GA-150A Collection
March 31st, 2012 akimolux Last month we offered an exclusive first look at Casio’s latest creation, the G-Shock GA-150A Collection, and today we present detail images of the expected April releases. Blurring the lines between digital technology and classic chronograph timepieces, this stone-tough collection offers a unique dial treatment in which the dial has a concave design that sinks [...]
PRO-Keds 2012 Spring/Summer Royal Lo Sport Red
March 31st, 2012 akimolux PRO-Keds has long been a staple within the world of footwear, originally solidifying its roots as an athletic footwear purveyor off-shoot in 1949. Remaining relevant until today, PRO-Keds reissues its storied Royal Lo in an updated “Sport Red” color iteration. Boasting a customary white outsole, the pair is treated in a colored canvas upper. The [...]
Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others
March 31st, 2012 akimolux Wikidata, the first new project to emerge from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006, is now beginning development. The organization, known best for its user-edited encyclopedia of knowledge Wikipedia, recently announced the new project at February’s Semantic Tech Business Conference in Berlin, describing Wikidata as new effort to provide a database of knowledge that can be read and edited [...]
Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others
March 31st, 2012 akimolux Wikidata, the first new project to emerge from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006, is now beginning development. The organization, known best for its user-edited encyclopedia of knowledge Wikipedia, recently announced the new project at February’s Semantic Tech Business Conference in Berlin, describing Wikidata as new effort to provide a database of knowledge that can be read and edited [...]
Amid UDID Uncertainty, AppRedeem Creates New ID Scheme, Groupon Adopts
March 31st, 2012 akimolux Six months ago, Apple began making some big changes to its operating system ahead of the release of iOS5. Among them, was the news that it would begin ramping up the deprecation of the UDID — Apple’s go-to identifier that ties users to their specific iOS device. The company remained silent for months, but, as [...]
Amid UDID Uncertainty, AppRedeem Creates New ID Scheme, Groupon Adopts
March 31st, 2012 akimolux Six months ago, Apple began making some big changes to its operating system ahead of the release of iOS5. Among them, was the news that it would begin ramping up the deprecation of the UDID — Apple’s go-to identifier that ties users to their specific iOS device. The company remained silent for months, but, as [...]
