A new shopping platform that exposes in-store inventory from local merchants to web shoppers launched this week. The Wishpond RetailConnect service lets merchants set up stores on Facebook and sends retailers’ product feeds to Google Product Search and Bing Shopping. Wishpond Technologies Inc. is a shopping search engine designed to help consumers find the products they [...]

Alliance enables retailers to instantly import product inventory into Wishpond’s RetailConnect and publish it in search engines, social networks and mobile applications Deep integration of Retail Pro with Wishpond’s RetailConnect significantly reduces cost and complexity of publishing product inventory for merchants Retail Pro Business Partners can realize new recurring revenue streams through Wishpond Alliance Retailers [...]

After Google’s failed attempt to purchase Groupon for an est. 6 Billion USD, they decided to launch a direct competitor: Google Offers. Of the six locations announced, only Portland went live at launch. Today, Google has announced that Offers has now launched in New York and San Francisco; being tailed closely by LivingSocial which has [...]

When realizing you have a choice between taking a mandatory elective online or in class, most reactions will be to choose online. If you don’t want to listen to a professor rant about pre-Confederation Canada for 3 hours- surprise, surprise, you’re not the only one. As of now, 50% of students enrolled in higher education [...]

Last week CEO and founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg announced on the brink of Google plus, that Facebook will be unavailing something “awesome” very soon. Today “awesome” was announced. Google has been working with Skype and have unveiled their new video chat instalment. Facebook’s blog announced that “A few months ago, we started working with Skype to [...]

With Google’s recent unveiling of Plus, a social network rivalling Facebook and Twitter. The potential opportunities it provides brands and businesses are exciting. Why report on it now? Google is providing some innovative new social tools brands can use to connect with their fan-base, namely Sparks and Hangouts. Sparks Sparks allow people to share interesting [...]

Last week Wishpond worked hard on our entry video to the Launch@Grow contest for start ups. After a couple of long days we have submitted our video describing just what we do at Wishpond. Our goal is to land in the top four and get the chance to demo on stage at the GROW 2011 [...]

One of the largest attractions to social sites is keeping tabs on our favourite brands, and Mashable explains in this article how “many brands have highly optimized their marketing and PR strategies to accommodate [this] behaviour.” Some of the highlights that you may not know include; around 40% of users followed brands to get access [...]

Written by Sarah Kessler, Turn Your Ecommerce Site Into a Facebook Store With Wishpond There are more potential consumers on Facebook than there are logging into eBay and Amazon combined. Local shopping engine Wishpond is the latest startup to tap into merchants’ desire to reach them. It’s launching a Facebook commerce solution Tuesday.illustrates how Wishpond’s new service, [...]

LinkedIn has become the ultimate business social network. As it is so new though, many businesses are unsure how to use it properly in order to build their company presence. The following four steps can be undertaken with ease in order to garner exposure and a stellar reputation throughout LinkedIn and the entire business community. [...]