Location Foursquare's Daily Deals Partnerships Going Live According to reports, the partnership between the daily deals service Groupon and location check-in platform Foursquare is launching today in select locations. As reported in late May, the two companies have been in talks and it looks like an accord has finally been reached that will integrate the deals service into the "Explore" tab in the… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Google Missed Out on Google Music? More Invites Arrived Today Did you miss out on the initial round of invites to Google's newest cloud locker service, Google Music? Well, today's the day to hit up your Google Music-loving friends for an invite. Existing users have been awarded just two invites each, which they can give out to anyone they choose. However, the service is still U.S.-only, so you may want to… Play Sarah Perez View comments
mobile Making Money From QR Codes with Hipscan We've written extensively about QR codes, including a story that ran earlier this week about using them as a virtual tourism activity. But an announcement from Hipscan.com caught our attention about how you can actually use these curious codes to generate hard cash money. Enterprise David Strom View comments
Analysis Citibank Heads into Mint's Territory with New iPad App This week, Citibank released a new banking application for iPad, designed to give customers access to common banking tasks (balance checks, bill pay, transfers, etc.) as well as financial analysis tools. While we don't (and can't) cover all mobile application launches individually, the new Citibank iPad is an interesting case study that shows how a… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis My Love Affair With PC-DOS I am waxing a bit nostalgic this week with various assignments for ReadWriteWeb: the story on PC BIOS, another one on embargo that you will see next week on the site, and seeing Rackspace's history of programming chart takes me back. Can it be that DOS and I have been involved with each other for 30 years? That sounds about right. DOS has been a… Enterprise David Strom View comments