Seth Priebatsch

12. March 2011 | 21:40

Meet Seth Priebatsch: Princeton Dropout, Serial Entrepreneur and SXSW Keynoter

Saturday, SCVNGR founder Seth Priebatsch will take the stage at South by Southwest Interactive. Priebatsch has grandiose plans to woo the crowd… (News Source: Mashable - 19:40:56)

SCVNGR Launches Spinoff LevelUp: Daily Deals Meet Location-Based Gaming

Location-based gaming startup SCVNGR , which recently closed a $15 million funding round, is entering new territory: it’s launching a spinoff service called LevelUp, which goes live today in pilot cities Boston and Philadelphia. And it’s taking on some big names, including the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial (in addition to the location-based services it already competes with, like Foursquare … (News Source: TechCrunch - 15:18:19)

Scvngr Unveils Deals Site

There’s no shortage of daily deals sites to help businesses drum up a rush of new customers. But the challenge for the companies that run specials on Groupon, Living Social and similar sites is turning those new faces into repeat customers. (News Source: New York Times - 17:53:07)

How to Turn Bargain Hunters into Loyal Customers

A new app blurs the line between gaming and hunting for deals. A new service called LevelUp aims to combine several online business trends-game dynamics, social media, and location-based services-not just to win new customers for local businesses but to turn them into regulars. (News Source: Technology Review - 23:05:58)

SCVNGR Pilots New Hybrid Mobile App for Local Merchant Deals With Game Mechanics

Location-based mobile game startup SCVNGR is releasing Thursday a second mobile application for iPhone and Android called LevelUp. This release… (News Source: Mashable - 15:26:29)

Scvngr chases Groupon market with new service

Scvngr Inc. today announced a pilot project that puts it in the race to follow Groupon Inc. for a piece of the daily deals market. The Cambridge company is spending about $1 million per city to launch its new service, called LevelUp. (News Source: Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology - 15:23:21)

Superhuman or super sleepy: Short sleepers function on four hours

For most of us, setting the clock forward in the spring is a sad occasion, a sign that we’re losing an hour of sleep. (News Source: CNN - 05:21:16)

Short sleepers function on four hours

For most of us, setting the clock forward in the spring is a sad occasion, a sign that we’re losing an hour of sleep. But for some genetically blessed people, a loss is not a problem. They naturally feel refreshed in a few hours. (News Source: CNN - 05:21:16)

A User’s Guide to SXSW 2011

For the ten days of SXSW, Austin becomes the Davos of Digital. The smartest, most ambitious, and mos (News Source: Forbes - 22:38:16)

Introducing LevelUp: Check-in, Challenge and Reward All in One Bite-Sized Unit

CAMBRIDGE, MA and PHILADELPHIA, PA–(Marketwire - March 10, 2011) - level-up [levÂ´el- uhp ] (v.) — To jump from one status to a higher one. To improve an attribute. Often used to describe positive progressions in a game or game-like setting. (News Source: Marketwire - 15:16:47)

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