JOOR modernizes wholesale buying for biggest names in fashion

JOOR is using software to make the journey from runway to retail stores as smooth as walking down a catwalk. The company is on track to do more than $350 million in transactions in 2013, which is more than three times the amount from 2012.

RingDNA releases mobile call tracking app to ‘make sales reps smarter’

RingDNA released a voice communications platform today that provides sales reps with relevant data so they can make the most of their sales calls. The company also announced raising a $1.9 million seed round.

LevelEleven redesigns & rebrands its Salesforce app that cleverly gamifies sales

Detroit-based LevelEleven has rebranded and redesigned its flagship app that motivates sales people to generate more leads and close more deals.

LevelEleven lands another $500K to gamify sales and CRM

Enterprise gamification startup LevelEleven has raised an additional $500,000 in new seed funds to motivate sales people around the world.

HG Data gets $2M to map connections between businesses

HG Data uses a data-driven approach to help salespeople build lists of potential enterprise customers, and is ready to disrupt the legacy IT market.

Samsung must reveal sales data in its epic Apple court battle

With these two latest private data reveals, this is turning into a unwilling corporate equivalent of an adolescent show-me-yours-I'll-show-you-mine.

iPhone 5 pushes Apple to its highest U.S. smartphone market share ever

Apple has reached the highest smartphone market share ever thanks to strong sales of the iPhone 5, according to the latest sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

With the iPhone 5 joining the 4 and 4S models still in the …

Dropbox hires sales execs from Salesforce and Apple to bolster its enterprise push

Dropbox has had no trouble convincing consumers to use its tools, but it will need a dedicated sales team to reach large enterprises. To lead these efforts, the company has brought on Harvard Business School alum Kim Malone Scott, who ascended the proverbial ladder at Google and Apple.

How a tech entrepreneur became a best-selling Amazon Kindle author

Mather started writing his novel in 2010, and by 2012 had 150,000 words and 600 pages of The Atopia Chronicals. Using his background in startups and his savvy as an entrepreneur, he created an 11-step program to market and launch the book.

Mobile commerce’s dirty little secret: it’s slow as Minnesota molasses (in the winter)

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.

Americans could spend $32B this weekend on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals

Up to 147 million Americans are planning to shake off their turkey dinners, get up early, and visit their favorite retailers this coming Black Friday. And they'll spend almost $30 billion doing it.

Field service software provider ServiceMax pulls in $27M, plots global expansion

ServiceMax offers customers web and mobile applications for scheduling and workforce optimization and contract management in the field.