eBay’s chicer cousin The RealReal unwraps $14M from VCs

The RealReal has raised $14 million to grow its luxury online resale marketplace, which it claims is "second only to eBay."

Vertu creates $10K luxury Android phone for the wealthy and depressed

For roughly $10,000, wealthy and self-aggrandizing egotists will get a luxury phone along with the latest version of Android. Happiness, however, is sold separately.

StyleCaster launches The Vivant, a destination for luxury-obsessed millennials (exclusive)

Fashion and beauty media company StyleCaster has launched a new web destination called The Vivant, a site dedicated to young people obsessed with travel, luxury, and "the good life."

Nokia to dump world’s most ridiculous luxury-phone brand, Vertu, for $265M

Troubled phone-maker Nokia is attempting to unload its luxury mobile-phone brand, Vertu, for a reported $265 million (€200 million), the Financial Times is reporting. Nokia is being advised by Goldman Sachs on the deal and is currently in talks to …

Exclusive: Sneak peek at Pursuitist’s social network for affluent consumers & luxury brands

It’s the country club come to the Internet: Pursuitist, the website about all things high-end, is getting ready to unveil a new social layer for those who live the good life.

Right now, as a Pursuitist spokesperson noted in a …