The family of online advertising agencies has an additional member this month, with the launch of fledgling ad shop barrettSF. Aspiring art directors, copywriters and account managers may feel stirred into striking out on their own after hearing the San Francisco startup’s story. It’s the
Social media mining startup LeadSift is poised for major success if it can prove its unique software really does convert the social media leads it ferrets out into real sales for its clients. The Canadian startup, which is based in Halifax, is barely a year
It may be a vanity state, but it’s revealing all the same. Silicon Valley based tech startup BlueStacks, whose software lets users run their Android apps on PCs and Macs, has just exceeded 5 million organic installs via its homepage. As every business development associate,
Ad-tech startup ifeelgoods has unearthed a big secret about success in e‑commerce: people prefer getting something for free more than they like money off discounts. E‑commerce analysts, web content managers and e‑commerce managers alike might want to sit up and take note: ifeelgoods discovered that
Google Inc. has just acquired the e‑commerce parcel collection operator BufferBox for an undisclosed sum. The Ontario-based startup, which runs its business from the “VeloCity Garage” inside Waterloo’s startup incubator “Communitech Hub”, has clearly impressed the tech leviathan (whose regional headquarters is literally upstairs), despite not