December 3rd, 2012

Gift Platform NewlyWish Looks to Disrupt $19 Billion Annual Wedding Registry Industry

NewlyWish

NewlyWish, the newly minted winner of the Women 2.0 Pitch NYC Startup Competition, provides a custom multi-merchant online marketplace. Users can choose from and register for goods at brick-and-mortar stores which have largely been excluded from the $19 billion annual domestic wedding registry market. → Read More

May 29th, 2012

Thrillist’s JackThreads Hits 2 Million Members, Plans To Move Beyond Flash Sales

Jackthreads

JackThreads, the members-only shopping club bought by men’s lifestyle brand Thrillist two years ago, just hit a major milestone this morning: 2 million members. At the time of the original acquisition, JackThreads was really small, says Thrillist co-founder and CEO Ben Lerer. It only had around 100,000-150,000 members in total. But it soon grew. JackThreads hit the 1 million member mark in July… → Read More

March 6th, 2008

Cellphone now most irreplaceable item for most most Americans

[photopress:pewcell.jpg,full,center] More Americans would have a hard time giving up their cellphone than giving up the Internet or TV. That’s what a Pew study found, at least. Six years ago, most people said that giving up a landline telephone would be the hardest technology to give up. The results show that 51 percent of Americans would have the toughest time giving up their cellphone… → Read More