It is indeed an honor when a year-old startup with two or three million dollars in annualized revenue scores a $100 million investment. An unusual honor, as well. But there's method behind the madness.
Editor's Pick Mick Jagger can't get no satisfaction, but apparently a lot of 14-year-old boys can. So too, fortunately, can Apple, Amazon, QVC, and NewEgg clients.
That fancy new app the marketing department wants so you can sell more paperweights may not be your best investment. In fact, unless you're lucky or really, really good, the app might just end up being the digital equivalent of a paperweight itself.
Mobile commerce has been the next big thing for some time now, and it's not all hype: 16.3 percent of all online Black Friday online sales were consummated over mobile.
Editor's Pick When you're looking to scale quickly, it helps to be a high-growth company in a high-growth industry in a high-growth country.
Tomorrow, the Paris-based company that built MasterCard's PayPass API and counts McDonalds and Reeboks as its mobile commerce clients will release the Airtag Kit: a full collection of everything developers need to start building mobile payment apps.
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 …
Physical retailers need to stop being afraid of the mobile shopping revolution and play to their strengths instead, a panel of executives told the audience at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit today.
VentureBeat brought together Google’s head of mobile Jason Spero, PayPal’s …
Consumers shopping from mobile devices over the holidays played a significant role in record online sales. But which retailers won these mobile shoppers over with the best experiences?
Consumers were most satisfied with the shopping experiences on Apple and Amazon …
If the name “Cyber Monday” makes you think of your shameful AIM exploits in the late ’90s, a new trend may make your day.
According to data from eBay, PayPal, IBM and GSI Commerce, mobile activity spiked yesterday as early …
Mobile commerce in the United States will reach $31 billion by 2016, Forrester Research estimates in its latest report. But while that represents significant growth for mobile commerce, it will still remain just a tiny portion of overall ecommerce sales …
Guest Post
2011 will be a year of economic recovery and continued drama in Silicon Valley, marked by the hyped battles of Apple vs. Google, Google vs. Facebook, and Oracle vs. the rest of the enterprise world. Without further ado, here is …
[Update: Corrected to reflect exact wording of Andreessen's quote]
Marc Andreessen, partner of venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is sick of carrying his wallet around. What, is all that money he made founding Netscape and Opsware and investing in …
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.…
