Imagine a world where your phone, computer, TV, and just about anything else can access all of the same information, all of the time. Imagine a world free of annoying backups or tedious emailing of files to yourself. Each day we move closer to this world as more and more applications make their way into [...]

People all seem to have the same nightmare at one point or another when grabbing a bite to eat, whether it be in a five-star restaurant, a casual cafe or a swank little happy hour spot. You sit there for upwards of ten minutes before the server even comes to the table. Your server forgets [...]

Local San Diego tech start-up ‘Deal Current’ was one of the first full-service, white label, daily deal software vendors in the world.  The success of the software has grown the company’s revenue by over 1,000% since 2008, and if you’re looking for a cool, hip, energized place to work, they’re hiring. Not too shabby for [...]

According to eMarketer data compiled in January 2011, the U.S. virtual goods market is expected to generate $653 million in revenue this year, up 28% from 2010.  Virtual goods, in case you’re not a shut-in, are digital representations of goods for which one pays actual, real money. An example would be a digital sweater for your avatars girlfriend [...]

Visa has announced that it will implement the switch over to EMV contact (chips found in credit cards) and contactless chip technology in the United States and abroad for use in mobile phones. Mastercard has also partnered with Google on NFC payments with the trial launch of Google Wallet.
Visa says that the transition to these types of chip [...]

In late June Google rolled out their version of Facebook, Twitter and Skype combined, which they claim to be neither, both, and all three.  Google+ is the latest effort by one of the ‘Big Five’ (Google, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Linkdin)  to protect their revenue share in the online advertising market. At the very least Google [...]

Professional Social Media site LinkedIn leapfrogged MySpace last week to take the number two slot in the industry under the number one behemoth Facebook (160 million users). After a splashy public offerings debut in March the site hit 100 million users, the holy grail number for emerging social media sites. According to LinkedIn CEO Jeff [...]

These statistics and facts from the Facebook Press Office demonstrate the incredible growth in Social Media marketing and the importance of such sites in marketing to consumers:

The average Facebook user has 130 friends.
More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) are shared each month.
Over 300,000 users helped [...]

In just four years the fledgling blog-site Tumblr has overtaken their predecessor and major competitor WordPress in the number of registered users by incorporating social-media features into their dashboard. By expanding on the capabilities of  the Twitter-like format to allow limitless text, simultaneous visual feed and a blog-forwarding option Tumblr is poised to become a powerful and potentially priceless format for breaking news and [...]

Over here at gWave, its critical that we stay on top of what’s hot and what’s effective in the marketing world. One of the trends that we’ve been noticing lately is the power and effectiveness of YouTube to market a brand. An increasing amount of our clients have been requesting and implementing marketing strategies via YouTube.
Here’s [...]