Groupon, the insanely fast-growing online-deals purveyor, has a thousand employees in its Chicago home base, half of them in sales, its founder and CEO Andrew Mason, said today.
Had the company started in Silicon Valley, he might have felt pressure …
Expedia.com and a number of other travel websites are attempting to block Google’s acquisition of ITA Software, a buyout that would give Google access to real-time flight data.
Google is looking to acquire the flight data provider for around $700 …
Appcelerator, which makes software that translates web-developed applications into Objective-C and other languages used in mobile operating systems, announced today that it has raised $9 million in its second round of funding from eBay and Sierra Ventures.
Software translation services …
Chinese online shoe retailer OkBuy.com announced yesterday that it has raised $17 million in a second round of funding from Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
The company, which can be best described as China’s equivalent of the …
For the first time in more than a year, eBay has not seen any significant revenue growth from its auctions. That has left PayPal, which continues to grow at a healthy rate, as the flagship revenue stream for the once-leading …
SundaySky, a company that generates sales videos for e-commerce, real estate and travel sites, announced today it has raised $9 million in its second round of funding.
SundaySky produces interactive videos for various e-commerce products on sites like Overstock.com to …
PlaySpan is turning itself into a one-stop shop for e-commerce and payments for online games, social networks, and video sites.
Today, the company is introducing its “monetization as a service” platform. The service is a web-based platform that combines seven …
High-profile Silicon Valley startup Chegg just raised $75 million to keep expanding its core business of shipping used textbooks to college students. But CEO Dan Rosensweig said that the company is going to woo students every day of the year, …
Adobe is moving its mobile efforts into a new industry today — shopping.
Over the past couple of years, Adobe has been fighting to make a place for its Flash technology on the wave of new smartphones from Apple, Google, …
I haven’t spent as much time writing about simple website builder Jimdo as I have on San Francisco-based competitors Weebly and Yola. But Jimdo caught up with the competition in one key respect today, with the full launch of its …
Dear Andrew:
It was great sitting down with you on stage at the DEMO conference this week. We talked a bit about the challenges of your runaway growth and the difficulties of applying your innovative collective-buying model to small, local …
VentureBeat executive editor Owen Thomas interviewed Groupon founder Andrew Mason on stage at the DEMO Fall 2010. Groupon is the group-buying phenomenon that recently raised $135 million from Digital Sky Technologies and is reportedly making tens of millions of dollars …
Needly is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Zappli is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
MobiCart is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Accel Partners, the venture capitalists behind Facebook, have a lot in their shopping bag. The latest bauble they’ve picked up: part of a $47 million investment in Showroomprive.com, a European members-only sales site.
The members-only sales phenomenon, popularized by Showroomprive …
It’s a busy time for e-commerce site Etsy, which focuses on handmade arts and crafts. The company announced yesterday that it has snagged $20 million in its fifth round of funding, led by Index Ventures. And just this morning, it …
Media is hard. Let’s go shopping!
In Silicon Valley, market-watchers are looking to digital media in its many forms — social networks, tablet apps, user-generated content — to revive the IPO market. That’s why there’s so much buzz about Zynga …
Google is in the final stages of acquiring visual search and e-commerce firm Like.com for more than $100 million, according to a report in Techcrunch.
Citing multiple sources, Techcrunch said the acquisition looks like it will happen, though it isn’t …
After operating in stealth for the past 3 years, mobile payment startup Payfone is officially stepping into the fray today after announcing an $11 million Series B financing, the company’s second infusion. While competition in the sector is fierce — …
