Google Offers is expanding in the USA today. Google Offers is the daily deal service from Google that has been hyped up, but doesnt seem to have grown like the other services in the market. Anyways.. Google Offers will soon be available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa.
You can check all the debut deals for the new cities here and sign for the service over at www.google.com/offers.
Spotify announced a new API platform for publisher a few days ago, which will give users a lot of great new applications to find and recommend new music. The new version of Spotify with the applications is yet to launch as official release, but if you want to test out the new application you can do so already.
All you need to do is select from these beta clients:
Apple is opening the worlds largest Apple store in Grand Central Station in New York. Here is an inside video to see what it is like.
We previously wrote about Apple entering Grand Central about six months ago.
It seems like the heavy weights of the industry are joining forces to try to gain some advertising marketshare away from Google (im not sure if 3 on 1 is fair). Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft will be offering each other’s premium non-reserved online display inventory to their respective advertising customers. This will all start in 2012 and they say the partnership is non-exclusive so it will mean they will still compete on getting agencies and the bigger contracts.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Microsoft and AOL and bring to market what we believe will be a more efficient, effective and more effortless way to access true premium inventory and formats,” says Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo! EVP of the Americas. “There has a been a significant shift in how inventory is bought and sold, and we’re now 100% focused on controlling our own destiny, working directly with marketers and agencies and driving better returns for our advertising partners.”
via – Yahoo
Spotify is about to release their own version of Gift cards that will be in store in time for Christmas.
Gift cards will come in £10, £30 and £50 options. You can redeem the cards for Spotify subscriptions or download tracks.
To redeem a card just head over to our ‘Redeem your code‘ page and enter the PIN number on the back of the card. Starting today Morrisons will be the first store to start selling our gift cards. Spotify will be dding many more retail shops in the near future, stay tuned.
Over at FlowingData they have put together a great infographic, which shows the most disliked videos on YouTube of all time. It seems like Justin Bieber is doing amazingly well to have five of his music videos in the list.
It seems like Gdgt is having a very busy 24 hours at the moment. There have been reports that Gdgt has signed a new deal with Engadget to provide product based information at the bottom of all their articles. This is a big deal for Gdgt as it provides them with millions of readers each month and opens the doors to a lot of the AOL network.
Additionally, Gdgt is rumoured to be in talks with Cnet who want to acquire the company. There were no details on the numbers and founders declined to comment.
Gdgt is a great technology product database and its great to see them growing nicely.
p.s. It also helps if your founders also founded Engadget.. the largest gadget site on the web!
Wikileaks seems to be fighting their biggest battle yet! Funding!
“WikiLeaks has lost an estimated 95% of donations due to financial blockade,” WikiLeaks spokeswoman Kristinn Hrafnsson said. “It could have received 40 million to 50 million Euros if it weren’t for the blockade,” she added.
Wikileaks has been blocked via Paypal, Visa and more. However, there are other ways to donate. All you need to do is check out their support page for full details.
p.s. not sure if these donations are tax deductable.
As newspapers are really struggling to transition over to the online world, it seems as though the Huffington Post is going from strength to strength. The Huffington Post is already live in the USA, Canada and UK and is preparing to launch in France before the end of the year.
The Huffington Post has partnered with Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes (LNEI) to launch ‘Le Huffington Post’, a French edition of the news and opinion portal. The new joint venture is currently recruiting editors to prepare for a launch before the end of 2011.
Steve Jobs had a great vision to keep Apple in Cupertino and even acquired land from HP to do so. Here is his presentation and I really hope to see this build being developed in the near future.
