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 $1.5 billion.
Fanatics also acquired sports e-commerce company …
As a student at the Harvard Business School, Bom Kim asked his entrepreneurship professor if he should drop put of school to do a startup. The professor told him no. But Kim dropped out anyway, and it was the best …
Perhaps misunderstanding what the D in All Things D stands for, online bra-shopping helper True&Co is demoing its product at the annual D10 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. today.
As seen at the opening of every infomercial ever, sometimes …
Inventory management is a boring term for what is actually the central question of any small business: How much stuff do I have left to sell, and where the @$%& is it?
Stitch Labs, an inventory management tool for small …
If you thought cloud companies lacked a sense of humor, think again. NetSuite’s SuiteWorld partner conference in San Francisco opened with a “Wayne’s World”-themed video, in which chief executive Zach Nelson (as Wayne) and founder Evan Goldberg (as Garth) talked …
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Last week, a Swedish company by the name of Wrapp made its way stateside, bringing with it a new mobile app that is helping to make “social gifting” the new buzzword in e-commerce.
Interested in what this new app had …
“Community” online marketplace Etsy is going global, despite already being global. Using a new $40 million round of funding led by Index Ventures, the company is trying grow even more by focusing on its thousands of sellers.
“With all the …
Facebook is constantly absorbing our real-life data that we contribute to the social network, but one Brazilian clothing store is taking Facebook’s data and throwing it back into the physical world.
The store, C&A, is putting “real-time Likes” counters on …
The popularity of open-ended 3D worlds peaked with Second Life around 2007. But for e-commerce companies, the dream of virtually replicating the experience of going to a mall lives on.
Yogurtistan is a 3D world aimed at simulating real-world retail …
JockTalk is a social network for sports nuts and the professional athletes they love (or perhaps love to hate). The new site, announced today at the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., combines profile pages, back-and-forth conversations, and …
Which one is more convincing: watching an infomercial for the latest juicer, or watching a guy on YouTube pulverize 12 apples into a tasty beverage?
We all know Jack LaLanne is awesome, but Looqiloo is betting that peer reviews on …
Agiliron could easily be the name of some crazy Pokemon, and funny enough, the cloud-connected e-commerce startup’s mission, like Pokemon, is to help you catch ‘em all — customers, that is.
Agiliron’s goal to provide an “integrated SaaS platform for …
We’ve been tracking the progress of Dibsie, an New York based e-commerce company that learns your tastes from your social network and displays items in the form of a dynamic shopping catalog. Today the site is coming out of beta …
