ClickWithMeNow aims to making the experience of online shopping less solitary and more collborative.
This isn't ephemeral, like online advertising or virtual Credits for virtual livestock. Facebook Gifts is as real as it gets, and that reality is what the stock market is looking for from the Internet's biggest success in a decade.
Facebook has just launched Gifts, a new feature that will let you send and receive gifts -- real-world products, not animated cattle -- with your friends. You don't need to know where they live or work; Facebook'll take care of that for you.
Fab.com, one of the world’s most popular flash-sale retail sites, has just announced a new “Fab Europe” hub for its operations on the continent.
Edo has raised $15 million in third round funding to brings its local-offers technology to small businesses across the country.
Warby Parker, a New York City-based startup offering stylish-yet-inexpensive glasses, has raised $36.8 million in a new round of funding.
You know that feeling when you're in the fitting room, you try on that perfect item, and your friends jaws just drop? Boutine wants to capture that feeling, and bring it online.
Bigcommerce has taken a big $20 million to accommodate its rapid growth and accelerate product development. The platform helps small business owners create professional online stores so they can "Sell More."
To give retailers a competitive edge, Shopify announced a partnership with ShopStation that promises to cut shipping time anywhere from a half to a third.
For shopaholics, it’s easy to pile up credit card debt, and lose track of how much you’re actually spending. ShopVibe, a Silicon Valley-based startup launching today, was founded by two serial entrepreneurs who needed a better way to help their …
2012 marks a key switch: the first time that more than half of retail clothing purchases -- almost 60 percent, actually -- are either online or influenced by the web.
In an online shopping frenzy, do you wish you could save all your favorite items into one handy shopping list? Wantworthy, an e-commerce tool to organize, and get feedback on products, launches today with $1 million in backing from Google …
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is raising more than $8 billion in a new round of funding, the majority of which will be used to buy back half of its shares from Yahoo, the New York Times reports.
The deal …
Stitch Labs, a startup that helps small business owners track orders, inventory, and shipping, has rolled out a free option.
The San Francisco-based startup is an inventory management tool that promises to make it easier to run a business. Stitch …
Thirty percent of online shoppers research a product on Amazon before they purchase it, another sign of Amazon’s incredible dominance in e-commerce, according to new research from Forrester.
“Ever since Amazon.com opened for business in July 1995, its impact on …
Startup StackSocial has raised $800,000 to help take its tech deals platform public, the company announced today.
StackSocial basically provides a white-label daily deals-like store for news publications to place within their website. The startup drums up a number …
Whether you’re interested in trading dollars for yen, donating to a school in Costa Rica, or buying a top-of-the-line office chair, tech companies are raising money across the board to help you do just that, as today’s funding news shows.…
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How are Amazon’s sales growing so dramatically — 30 to 40 percent quarterly for the last umpteen quarters — when even the big retailers are struggling to grow 1 to 2 percent? In record time, Amazon has taken on the …
Sports-centered e-commerce site Fanatics, owned by Kynetic, grabbed the attention of Silicon Valley venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Venture Partners to raise a $150 million round of funding at a $1.5 billion.
Fanatics also acquired sports e-commerce company …
As a student at the Harvard Business School, Bom Kim asked his entrepreneurship professor if he should drop put of school to do a startup. The professor told him no. But Kim dropped out anyway, and it was the best …
