Design trends of 2012: The good, the bad, and the ‘die already’

Modal pop-ups! Crazy typography! Larger-than-life images! Here's all the best -- and worst -- from web & mobile design in 2012.

Fab expands Indian ties with new funding deal from Times of India

Fab is continuing its global expansion with a funding deal -- and a potential new partner -- in India.

Fab.com hits million-dollar days during Black Friday/Cyber Monday

Fab is blowing away all its previous sales numbers -- and for retail, late November is just the beginning.

Fab goes to free shipping. Permanently.

We can't bear to say it, but the holidays are sort of upon us, and design-centric flash sales site Fab.com is getting into the swing of things early with free shipping.

Fab continues international growth with Indian acquisition

Fab keeps expanding its operations around the globe, and it's next steps take it to the populous Indian subcontinent.

Is the technapolocalypse upon us as investments drop in Q3?

Venture capital investments declined in both dollars and deal volume this quarter, according to the latest TheMoneyTree report.

Funding Daily: VC helping hands lead to startup happy feet

Good thing we start happy hour late here at VentureBeat, or we would have missed Fab.com’s big news yesterday afternoon. In other $100+ announcements, Penguin took an independent, self-publishing platform under its wing, and Microsoft and Yammer sealed the deal. …

Fab celebrates its first birthday by buying a UK clone to rule Britannia

What do you get for the site that sells everything? A UK expansion via acquisition, of course!

Yes, design flash-sale phenom Fab.com is celebrating the end of its first full year in business, and part of that celebration is the …

Fab.com relaunches, and it buries other social shopping experiences

Today, Fab.com is launching its third and most ambitious version of the site, and CEO Jason Goldberg said it’s going to remind you of window-shopping with your best friends.

“Imagine you’re shopping with your friends, and one of them picks …

Fab.com hits 3M members and sells 1M daily deals

Daily deals darling Fab.com announced today it has sold one million items and already hit three million users in the last nine months.

The company does fall into the tired category of daily deals, but it is quickly finding a …

Fab.com acquires German clone Casacanda, now serving Europe

Fab.com, the wildly popular design-focused e-commerce site, has just acquired Casacanda, a German startup offering “an online shopping club for daily design inspirations.”

If that mission statement sounds familiar, it’s not just you. The Fab.com team saw the similarities as …

Pinterest, Fab, and other apps see huge growth using Facebook Actions

In the wake of Facebook’s implementation of Actions, a new way for third-party applications to get their data into your Timeline, many apps are seeing staggering new growth stats.

Already-popular traffic hounds such as Pinterest, Fab.com, Foodspotting, Pose, and several …

Fab.com launches 7-day shops for foodies, kids, pets, & more

Design-centric e-commerce startup Fab.com just keeps rolling out the goodies. Today, the company is announcing a new kind of shop on the site.

Five permanent vertical-specific shops are opening, one for each day of the week. And each shop will …

Fab.com is gonna be big — Amazon big, says CEO

When Fab.com won a Crunchie for best shopping app, no one was more surprised than the startup’s CEO, Jason Goldberg (pictured).

“To be honest, I didn’t think we were going to win, mostly because Fab isn’t very much integrated into …

Fab.com gears up for huge expansions: open doors, new shops, international ops

Fab.com, the design-focused flash sale site, has been going gangbusters lately. Today, the company announced a slew of changes aimed at a global takeover.

The company’s news is fourfold:

First, the site is nearing the 2 million member mark and …

Flash sales site Fab.com racks up $40M, now at 1.2M members

Fab.com, the flash sales site for design-oriented products, is seeing its pivot pay off in a big way.

The company, which initially started out as Fabulis, a social network for gay men, announced yesterday that it has raised $40 million …