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Grubhub announced this morning that it’s agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions like Eat24 were designed t

In spite of the fact that we now use smartphones to do just about everything, a winner has yet to emerge in the mobile payments space. Unlike mobile photo and video, consumers have yet to get fully co

As a small startup, the mobile payment space shouldn't be appealing. Every carrier and credit card company seems to have its own system, the space is fragmented, crowded and no standard for payment me

Mobile payment service <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thelevelup.com/">LevelUp</a>, an off-shoot of Boston-based SCVNGR, announced this morning that it has raised $9 million from T-Venture, the

At the beginning of the year, Square doubled its retail presence, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/04/square-doubles-its-retail-presence-after-landing-in-20000-outlets/">landing in about 20K ou

With increasing smartphone adoption and with users in turn becoming more and more comfortable using their mobile devices to do things traditionally reserved for the Web or desktops, every industry is

Back in March, <a href="http://www.scvngr.com/">SCVNGR</a> launched a product to complement its mobile scavenger hunt called <a href="https://www.thelevelup.com/">LevelUp</a> that essentially took on