Social shopping startup Fashism just announced that it has raised an angel round of funding led by A Grade Investments, the fund created by actor/entrepreneur/professional oversharer Ashton Kutcher.
The New York startup offers a way to get fashion feedback before …
Mertado, a startup incubated by Y Combinator, has been working on bringing a fun, deal-based social shopping experience to Facebook. Today, it’s offering game developers and website publishers a way to make money from its deals too.
Basically, the Palo …
Montreal-based Shwowp is the latest company trying to add a social element to your shopping history.
Chief executive Tara Hunt, who wrote the social network book The Whuffie Factor, described the product on-stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in …
Select2Gether is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
Select2Gether, a company that …
Zappli is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Accel Partners, the venture capitalists behind Facebook, have a lot in their shopping bag. The latest bauble they’ve picked up: part of a $47 million investment in Showroomprive.com, a European members-only sales site.
The members-only sales phenomenon, popularized by Showroomprive …
Media is hard. Let’s go shopping!
In Silicon Valley, market-watchers are looking to digital media in its many forms — social networks, tablet apps, user-generated content — to revive the IPO market. That’s why there’s so much buzz about Zynga …
Trying a little of its own medicine, social buying juggernaut Groupon went on something of a shopping spree Tuesday, announcing that it has bought Japanese and Russian rivals Qpod and Darberry, respectively. While the terms of the deal were undisclosed, …
Swipely, a site where users can share their purchases, is opening to the public today after spending about three months in an invitation-only preview. And it’s introducing some new features into the mix, by awarding badges for specific kinds of …
Facebook and Amazon.com partnered Tuesday in what could be one of the social network’s most important integrations yet. Amazon.com now offers a personalized page, where consumers can see product recommendations influenced by friends and their own tastes. They get notifications …
The tide of group buying sites, which mix discounting with viral marketing to make marketing offers more effective, isn’t abating anytime soon. Yipit, a New York-based startup that aggregates deals from about 90 different social buying companies, says four newbies …
Payvment, a San Francisco-based startup aiming to provide a single shopping network across Facebook, raised $1.5 million in funding from BlueRun Ventures and angel investor Dave McClure.
The company builds storefronts for retailers on Facebook so users can buy products …
