Call it the unicorn problem: beautiful, alluring, magical, and totally non-existent. Social commerce, according to the latest Monetate e-commerce report, is almost as elusive.
"It took us more than 16 years to get to one million paid households but just 18 months to double it."
A billion product recommendations a day is a significant milestone, and with 73 percent revenue growth and 43 percent customer growth in the past year to go with it, RichRelevance is hiring a new president to help increase growth.
Foursquare is checking into Yelp's territory with the addition of ratings to its listings.
Think Facebook is showing you an arbitrary or editorially driven selection of applications in its App Center? Think again.
Popular photo sharing and editing app EyeEm has today relaunched into version 3.0 on iOS and Android with a live discovery tool in what is arguably, the first of its kind.
The Silicon Valley makers of iPhone application Ness, a scientifically tuned search engine for discovering what to eat, have received a five-star, $15 million review from investors.
Those little Google +1 buttons you see littered across the web now double as handy indicators that tell you more content you might like — be it apps or articles — is just a click away.
That’s because, Google, as …
A seemingly small change that Google quietly launched yesterday has the potential to transform +1 buttons from a simple I-like-this to a find-the-best-content-here experience … and generate more interaction with Google+.
You’ve seen Google +1 buttons all over the Internet. …
Chill, the social video discovery startup, has closed an $8 million funding round to stay on top of ever-changing entertainment consumption behavior, the company announced today.
Chill started out as a Turntable.fm-style video curation site that let people on Facebook …
Nara.me is a Cambridge, Mass.-based brain trust of astrophysicists and neurosurgeons dedicated to creating “a more personal, actionable, and liberating web to achieve a life well found.”
It’s also a startup that’s just sealed a $4 million first round of …
Travel recommendations company TripAdvisor is moving to restaurant review row and taking a seat next to Yelp and Foursquare with the release of Local Picks, a Facebook application for discovering dining recommendations from friends and locals.
Local Picks, launched Wednesday …
Getting enough data to make local recommendations has proved tough. A restaurant reviewer writing for a local newspaper might write a hundred or so reviews a year. Zagat might cover several thousand in its printed books. Yelp provides near universal …
Surfacing the long-lost tips from people you trust is the promise of newly launched startup HashTip.
HashTip is a social network and content aggregator that collects, stores, and categorizes the tips previously posted by your friends on other services. The …
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With the rise of mobile marketplaces, outsourcing tedious or mundane tasks to a willing gopher has never been easier. Thursday, one startup seeks to make these mobile conveniences less intimidating for the masses.
Zaarly, one year after making a splash …
Oh Google, your aptly named new product Schemer doesn’t have us fooled. We know you’re calling it a new way to discover things to do, but we see this for what it really is — an assault against Foursquare and …
What’s for dessert? Turn to three month-old Ness for the answer, and its lovely-looking iPhone app will find you the best nearby spots, suited to your exact tastes. Today the application received its first update, and it now further personalizes …
Online auction site eBay is launching a new feature for its mobile applications today to help boost purchases from customers while they’re on the couch watching TV.
The move is part of eBay’s new “Couch Commerce” strategy. Users that open …
Wikets, a soon-to-be-released iPhone application that recommends places and products to friends, announced a $1.5 million seed round from Andreessen-Horowitz and Battery Ventures today. But will yet another recommendations product survive when reviews and opinions already litter the Internet?
I …
TasteJive wants to make wine just a little bit easier to swallow. Today the company launched its wine recommendation engine to take the jargon out and make wine more contemporary.
Wine can be intimidating and often pushes people away just …
