Founder Stories host Chris Dixon continues his conversation with Thrillist Co-founder and CEO Ben Lerer by discussing customer acquisition. Recognizing the line of thought that it’s not optimal to pay for customers, Dixon inquires about Lerer’s customer acquisition strategy and says, “a lot more tech businesses including Groupon and including I believe Thrillist are actually...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. Remember when phones were used for, you know, phone calls? Janet Hall, senior consultant for TMNG,...
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Microsoft says it tried to work with Google on buying patents, contradicting what Google wrote in a blistering blog post. Earlier today, Google’s chief legal officer accused Microsoft and Apple of participating in a “hostile, organized campaign against Android,” being “waged through bogus patents.” He also claimed Apple and Microsoft bought the patents of...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. As new firms enter the Web-based help desk services arena, we are seeing a blurring of...
Earlier today, we, along with a more than a dozen other companies, were hit by a class-action complaint making privacy-related claims. The suit relates to a browser technology allegedly used by one of our vendors, KISSmetrics. (Read the full complaint here. ) We want to assure our readers that the claims against GigaOM are...
Clearwire, the wireless broadband company, on Wednesday announced that it is trying out a new LTE-Advanced-based network that would allow it to offer a network with speeds of 120 Mbps. To our readers, it wouldn’t come as a surprise – both Stacey and I have reported on the eventual move to LTE for Clearwire. It was...
When Lion was released, we linked to a page detailing how to create your own bootable Lion drive. But if you absolutely must have a GUI and don’t want to go mucking around in the app package, you might find this little tool useful. Lion Diskmaker is a simple app that extracts the necessary...
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Apple has today enabled the Find My iPhone and Find My Mac features of iCloud.com for developers. The device location service has a completely revamped interface which features a pleasant looking world map that sits on a wooden desk and features iPad-style modal popups. The Find My iPhone feature allows users to locate any...