Thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest the sad state of the economy, but online, it appears that business is booming.
Online shoppers are spending more than ever, dropping $9.67 billion between Nov. 1 and Nov. 20, …
Mobile rewards startup Shopkick has partnered with credit giant Visa to incentivize purchases made within a brick and mortar retail store, the companies announced today.
Customers who shop at a handful of partnering stores now have the ability to accumulate …
Should you buy that new digital camera at Best Buy, or order it on Amazon? Or should you hold off altogether for a new model?
Decide has been answering those sorts of questions with its website for the past few …
Discount shoppers, rejoice. Mobile shopping startup Shopkick has added Old Navy, a Gap Inc. brand, to its arsenal of retail partners, the company announced Tuesday.
With the Shopkick iPhone or Android app, you earn rewards points, called “kicks,” by just …
New York City-based Centzy makes it easy for you to find the best place to get that haircut you’ve been putting off. And unlike Yelp, it has accurate pricing about local companies to let you make a fully informed decision.…
Google launched a new version of its Product Search page today that’s far more visually driven than any of its other search pages.
With the new Product Search site, it seems like Google has finally realized that retail store windows …
Wantlet is a new social shopping site that lets consumers compare product listings across several retail stores.
The service, which launched today at the Demo Fall 2011 conference, helps consumers who are looking to purchase something compare prices and find …
Decide.com, a service that tracks consumer electronics prices and release dates to let you buy without regret, now also tracks mobile phones, the company announced today.
Additionally, the site now makes it easy for you to follow the multitude of …
DoubleClick cofounder Kevin O’Connor has a new startup, FindTheBest, aimed at helping you compare everything from air purifiers to venture capitalists.
Now, with a $6 million funding round from Kleiner Perkins that closed Tuesday, FindTheBest should be in a good …
New York-based Ideeli, a members-only shopping community — known commonly as a “Flash sales” site — has raised $41 million in its third round of funding.
The site, which has over 4 million members, offers limited-time offers on apparel, accessories, …
As part of Google’s ongoing battle to conquer the mobile advertising market, the company commissioned research from Ipsos OTX to understand how smartphones are used in people’s daily lives. Mobile ad network InMobi also just released some data on consumer’s …
Group shopping site Groupon is continuing its buying spree, acquiring the parent company of check-in service Whrrl late Monday, dubbed Pelago, which the company said in a blog post it would retire on April 30.
Pelago was one of the …
Christopher Poole, also known as “moot” and the founder of online imageboard 4chan, has a new image-sharing startup called Canv.as. Now he just needs to build a community around it as successful as — but hopefully a bit tamer than …
Group buying may be all the rage via companies like Groupon but ShopWithYourFriends, which launches today, adds a new twist to social shopping by enabling group shopping sessions online.
The Dutch startup uses co-browsing technology to share the screen between …
Procrastinators rejoice! Amazon announced today that it will offer free one-day shipping for thousands of products, including electronics, video games and jewelry, until the end of the day on Wednesday, December 22. (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pictured right.)
Clearly, Amazon …
Svpply (pronounced “supply”), a social shopping service that helps users discover new products, announced today that it has raised a $550,000 seed round.
The service takes an innovative new approach to shopping: Instead of working out of a pre-existing catalog, …
Discount deal site Offers.com said today it has closed first-round funding of $7 million as it seeks to add more staff and take on an already-crowded online coupon marketplace.
Unlike the spate of online deal site fundings we’ve seen over …
Chinese online shoe retailer OkBuy.com announced yesterday that it has raised $17 million in a second round of funding from Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
The company, which can be best described as China’s equivalent of the …
Most entrepreneurs (and investors) like to talk about how their startups are a force for good. Mostly, that’s connected to some airy mission statement like “trying to make the world a more open place,” but once in a while, companies …
We’ve been hearing for weeks now that business-review site Yelp was working on leveraging its relationships with local businesses to offer deals to its customers, and take on sites like Groupon in the process. Today the company gave us a …
