Though it’s not being billed as the next Groupon, Thrillist Rewards was launched upon the mobile market with bright prospects. Thrillist Rewards, however, isn’t much different from the deals giant in its street level merchant-privileges approach to spoiling loyal users. Thrillist Rewards for iPhone and Android went live during the previous week, since then it’s made [...]
The very idea that Thrillist is for sale is strange news indeed, considering the last bit of Thrillist related stuff featured here at NY Tech Blog. The phantom source circulating the fictitious fabrication mentioned a ball park figure of $150 million to be paid by a well known giant. Others claimed Yahoo, still others muttered [...]
If (and this is a big ‘if’) the ultimate criteria for success is consistency, then Eric Ashman is a very successful guy. As CFO of The Huffington Post during its most profitable years Ashman proved his acumen in monetizing new media brands. Now word has broken out that he’s joining Thrillist.com as–guess what–Chief Financial Officer. [...]