Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Monday, January 26, 2015 RetailMeNot: Consumers Optimistic, But Blew Their Holiday Budgets Austin-based RetailMeNot/a>, the online coupon and deals site, has recently started running surveys and studies on consumer behavior, and has found that consumers are very optimistic on 2015--but might have blown a bit past their budgets over the holidays. RetailMeNot says its latest report, the 2014 Holiday Shopping Retrospective and 2015 Outlook, found that consumers 38% of cons (More info...) posted on Monday, January 26, 2015(Full story) SpareFoot Recruits The Mountain To Austin Startup Games Um, don't mess with the newest "executive" over at Austin-based SpareFoot. SpareFoot said Friday that Icelandic strongman Hafthor "Thor" Bjornsson--better known to those of us here in the U.S. as "The Mountain" from the Game of Thrones--has joined the company as Senior Vice President of the company's Icelandic business. SpareFoot brought Bjornsson into Austin on the eve of this year's Austin Startup Gam (More info...) posted on Monday, January 26, 2015(Full story) GameStop Looks To Unlock Tax Refund Purchases With Sale Grapevine, Texas-based videogame retailer GameStop hopes that tax refunds will help spur some purchases in its stores, saying it has launched a promotion through March 1st specifically aimed at helping its customers spend their tax refund. GameStop said it has launched a "Re-fun Your Refund" program specifically aimed at tax refunds, with a variety of sales and special offers. The company also said it will offer layaways for Xbox One, Playstation 4, W (More info...) posted on Monday, January 26, 2015(Full story) |
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