Shopkick, which is behind a highly-anticipated mobile app that will send offers to shoppers when they are near a store, has raised $15 milli… Read more »
Facebook is now telling users “it’s free (and always will be)” when they sign up because some users still think the company could pull a bai… Read more »
Facebook, which had been oh-so-very slowly rolling out its Facebook Credits payment system, now seems intent on speeding that process up. Tw… Read more »
NexTag, the big comparison shopping site, is buying product reviews site Wize. Wize aggregates product reviews from around the web and provi… Read more »
The latest numbers from mobile app store monitor Distimo show major differences in apps’ prices in Google’s Android Market and Apple’s App S… Read more »
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is joining some of the other big newspaper chains in testing paywalls at several of its papers, possibly in preparation… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is making a big move into the travel search vertical, buying ITA Software, a company which provides back-end search and… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is buying Woot.com, a six-year-old online retailer that offers one steeply discounted product for sale each day. (Today’… Read more »
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to… Read more »
The good news is that the number of mobile payment users is growing. According to research firm Gartner mobile payments users worldwide will… Read more »
When Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey unveiled his latest start-up, Square, in December critics harped that the company, billed as a mobile pa… Read more »
Updated: Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which had hinted for nearly a year now that it was working on building some sort of paid content system for pu… Read more »
Social marketer Context Optional has acquired Unwrap, inc., the maker of Facebook app platform Buzzeo. The move expands Context Optional Read more »
Women-oriented blog network Sugar Inc. tells us it’s buying FreshGuide, a startup that offers daily deals in four markets targeted at women.… Read more »
Apparently, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) doesn’t think it needs to give back money to people who use its search engine anymore. The company is end… Read more »
Back in December, travel startup Trazzler told us it had raised $750,000 from an “all-star team of angel investors” — but wouldn’t say who… Read more »
Although magazines are getting a breather from the ad recovery, the realization that marketers’ spending isn’t going to make a full comeback… Read more »
One of the big frustrations developers are quick to point out about the Android platform is that its app store uses the obscure Google (NSDQ… Read more »
Disney’s new Facebook application, Tickets Together, represents the company’s latest attempt to bridge e-commerce and social media promotion… Read more »
GSI Commerce’s marketing services unit has made its first acquisition under Chris Saridakis, who was hired away from Gannett (NYSE: GCI) to… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made its second iGoogle-related acquisition in less than a month, buying up small online travel site Ruba, which fea… Read more »
The rush of private sales deal-making continues; This time, it’s Brazilian private sales firm Brandsclub, which has raised $17 million in a… Read more »
Social shopping site Groupon has acquired European imitator CityDeal, its second acquisition this month. Terms of the deal were not disclose… Read more »
Gilt Groupe, the very fast-growing online private sales startup, has raised $35 million more to expand its businesses, which in addition to… Read more »
Alibaba Group, the part-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) owned Chinese e-commerce giant, has a new investor in George Soros. Alibaba says Soros’ Soros Fun… Read more »
In the latest match-up of a media pub and and social shopping, men’s lifestyle e-newsletter Thrillist has purchased casual male apparel reco… Read more »
Consumer Reports online has long relied on the paid content format, way before it came back into fashion. It has taken its time on the mobil… Read more »
Delivery Agent, which provides e-commerce solutions for entertainment companies, has made its second acquisition in less than two weeks, pic… Read more »
Delivery Agent, which provides e-commerce solutions for entertainment companies, has purchased Billion Dollar Babes, a designer-fashions sam… Read more »
Mobile payment provider Zong of Palo Alto, Calif. has spun off from its Swiss parent Echovox and has raised $15 million to help pay for its… Read more »
Social shopping sites like Groupon and LivingSocial keep attracting investment dollars as consumers continue to look for online deals during… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may be about to make its entry into the travel search market — but not quite in the way people expected. Rather than bu… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is making a very bold argument in its latest standoff with state tax collectors: The company charges that North Carolina… Read more »
Barely six months after raising $30 million in funding, social deal-finding site Groupon has received a huge $135 million add on from previo… Read more »
UK online retailer The Hut Group, which last year salvaged Zavvi.co.uk, is taking a big £14 million ($21.7 million) investment for an acqui… Read more »
Fresh from a new round of funding and a high-profile acquisition, shopping recommendation and related lifestyles site ThisNext has tapped Pe… Read more »
The relatively positive jobs report last week could mean that recruitment sites return to healthier ad revenues. In preparation of a somewha… Read more »
Ebay is trying — again — to challenge Craigslist in the U.S. classifieds market with a relaunch of its Kijiji classifieds site. The compan… Read more »
The flurry of shopping club activity doesn’t look like abating. This time, Turkish private buying club Markafoni, which has over 870,000 mem… Read more »
Travel search engine Kayak has sold hotel information site TravelPost to an online travel startup founded by several former Expedia employee… Read more »
