After making a name for itself as a useful smartphone app for in-store shopping, ShopSavvy is finally launching on the iPad today -- a shift that has forced the company to think beyond its current price comparison strategy.
It may be shocking to some men -- or at least advertising art directors -- but not all women have the stereotypical Barbie dimensions. Or the Twiggy lack thereof.
European online shoe retailer Spartoo raises $32.5 million.
In an effort to step up its game against other online retailers, eBay debuted a brand new website design today to match its updated company logo.
Brick-and-mortar retailers should embrace mobile devices if they want to stay afloat, InMarket says.
Shopsavvy is about to get a lot more useful for Best Buy shoppers.
Fab.com, one of the world’s most popular flash-sale retail sites, has just announced a new “Fab Europe” hub for its operations on the continent.
To give retailers a competitive edge, Shopify announced a partnership with ShopStation that promises to cut shipping time anywhere from a half to a third.
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 …
The rising popularity of mobile shopping apps is leading to entirely new consumer behaviors, according to a joint report by mobile data compression company Onavo and IDC.
2012 marks a key switch: the first time that more than half of retail clothing purchases -- almost 60 percent, actually -- are either online or influenced by the web.
In an online shopping frenzy, do you wish you could save all your favorite items into one handy shopping list? Wantworthy, an e-commerce tool to organize, and get feedback on products, launches today with $1 million in backing from Google …
The Echo System, a company that helps brands measure the impact of their social-network initiatives, released its Echo Rank results for June today. The results show that online retailers with solid “social” customer engagement strategies vastly outperform laggards.
In fact, …
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: …
Today’s shoppers likely spend more time looking at their smartphones than weekly in-store circulars. Hoping to take advantage of this new trend, intent marketing company LocalResponse and ShopLocal, which helps stores digitize their circulars, have joined forces for what could …
What can 100 million online shopping experiences teach you about e-commerce in 2012? Apparently quite a bit.
Monetate may not be a household name, but the company has its fingers in 20 percent of U.S. e-commerce traffic. With customers such …
KupiVIP, the Gilt of Russia, has secured a $38 million investment led by Intel Capital. The company now has now received over $100 million in total investment, positioning it well to take advantage of a Russian e-commerce market that’s expected …
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Gals, rejoice — we’ve got a new way to buy shoes. Shoes of Prey lets you customize your shoe from the sole up with leather, sequins, suede, glitter, silk, or cotton. If you’re feeling more exotic, you can slap some …
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Oh, how the times have changed for ShopSavvy. When the barcode-scanning app first launched on Android in 2008, hundreds of retailers had refused to give up their pricing and inventory data to it. Now that ShopSavvy has proven itself as …
