Social product development platform Quirky has raised $68 million from major VC firms.
You know that feeling when you're in the fitting room, you try on that perfect item, and your friends jaws just drop? Boutine wants to capture that feeling, and bring it online.
AT&T has taken a cue from Apple and Microsoft and is focusing on its retail strategy, opening a glossy new flagship store this Saturday in Chicago.
In the race to bring indoor location technology to market, an eight-person startup is taking on big name players Google, Qualcomm and Samsung, and has the potential to win.
Samsung's transparent display technology will help usher in the future of shopping.
If you run an online shopping/ecommerce business of some kind, you're gonna want to get your mobile act together, STAT. A new survey shows that it 2012, holiday shoppers will be taking to their phones more than ever.
Electronics retail chain Best Buy reported dismal results in its fiscal 2013 Q2 earnings report today, with profits taking a 91 percent nose dive.
Editor's Pick Apple is building a new store in the heart of Silicon Valley with an extremely high-bandwidth connection to one of the Internet's major hubs.
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 …
Editor's Pick After hearing chief executives Jack Dorsey and Howard Schultz discuss how the arrangement came to be, it seems like one of the most logical unions between tech and business in recent memory.
Boutiika, a site that thousands of fashion-conscious San Franciscans and New Yorkers already use to find boutique stores in their neighborhood, is launching its public beta today.
On the eve of the launch, I caught up with the founding team, …
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 …
Retailers typically measure online ads with online results: cost per click, cost per action, cost per sale. But Helsinki-based shopping analytics firm RapidBlue recently tested the effects of online ads on offline sales. And, surprisingly, it found a strong correlation: …
Come the release of Windows 8 this fall, it may be easier for consumers to figure out which boxed copy to purchase.
Microsoft will reportedly drop the full retail copy of Windows 8 and will only offer upgrade and “System …
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The hottest megatrend in enterprise computing today is Big Data – the use of massive computational ability to solve problems that were previously unfathomable. According to August Capital partner David Hornik, “Big Data is not a thing in and of …
When you think Apple, you undoubtedly imagine the Cupertino headquarters where real geniuses are hard at work on your next favorite gadget. But the reality is most of Apple’s employees belong to its retail chains, and they are paid hourly …
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The coffee was brewing as usual, and patrons were as caffeine-crazed as any other day, but something curious was happening behind the scenes at beloved and bemoaned coffee giant Starbucks on March 9, 2012.
On that date, Adam Brotman, formerly …
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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 …
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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 …
Sponsored Post Recent research indicates that by 2014, more than one in three American Internet users will have a tablet device, and that 52 percent of tablet owners prefer to shop online using their tablets.
