Amazon’s new tablet is much less kindle and a whole lot more fire. The recent announcement of the “Kindle Fire”, is proof that they’re finally ready to break out of the e-reader game and step into the ring with the big boys from Cupertino. Amazon has been building up the needed infrastructure, from the kindle [...]

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 [...]

Apple, the most valuable technology company since it overtook Microsoft 15 months ago,  surpassed Exxon Mobil last week making the tech giant the world’s most valuable company at $341 billion . At lunchtime August 9, 2011, Apple was trading at  $367 per share, giving the company a valuation of more than $341 billion, briefly surpassing what Exxon Mobil was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Cargoh.com, the Social Marketplace, allows artists, musicians, designers, and other creative types to build an online presence. From there, they can show and sell their work, network and build a community.

The Marsh Café in San Francisco! They found the most unique way to display their emergence into the social media world. This summer they put up a sign that read “Foursquare mayor drinks for free” in order to promote Foursquare. Foursquare is a location-based social network that helps people connect with anyone (you don’t even [...]