January 31st, 2013

Wishpond Launches Eight Twitter Marketing Apps That Borrow Their Look From Twitter

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Wishpond is launching a set of eight new apps that bring the startup’s social marketing campaigns to Twitter.

The apps allow businesses to promoted different contests and offers from the Twitter account, such as Photo and Caption contests. I talked to CEO Ali Tajsekandar about the new tools, and it sounds like one of the biggest selling points is the way tehc ontests seem like a natural… → Read More

May 21st, 2012

Wishpond Launches Mall360 To Bring Your Local Shopping Mall Online

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Like Milo before it, Wishpond launched in late 2010 to build a local search engine that aggregates realtime inventory and product listings from brick and mortar retail stores — from big chains to mom and pop shops. The startup has since focused its efforts on developing social commerce solutions for retailers, launching tools like Social Store, which allows any business to quickly create and… → Read More

December 3rd, 2010

As Milo Finds An Exit, Wishpond Throws Its Hat Into The In-Store Product Inventory Ring

On the heels of Milo’s $75 million acquisition by eBay; a similar product inventory site, called Wishpond, is throwing its hat into the ring. Like Milo, Wishpond lists the real-time inventory of brick and mortar retail stores and is building its product listings platform around large chains like Target or BestBuy as well as from mom and pop shops in small towns.

On the merchant side, Wishpond’s… → Read More