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| 24.03.2021 | Ancestry Appoints Lorrie Norrington to Board of Directors | LEHI, Utah & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 24, 2021--
Ancestry®, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, today announced the appointment of Lorrie Norrington as an independent member of its Board of Directors. S... |
| 02.10.2019 | Simon Property to invest $280M in online shopping venture | - |
| 15.07.2014 | LivingSocial names eBay's Gautam Thakar as new CEO | Former CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy announced his departure in January
Like most daily deals sites, LivingSocial has struggled a fair share as the fad of buying discounted goods online quickly wore off. The company has lost numerous executives ove... |
| 31.10.2013 | Visual Search App CamFind Passes 1M Downloads, Makes Its API Public | CamFind, the visual search app that wants to be a faster and more accurate alternative to Google Goggles, recently hit two milestones. Its iOS app just crossed a total of one million downloads (an Android version will be released in two mon... |
| 16.10.2013 | eBay Earnings Released, Revenue Up 14% | eBay just released its Q3 earnings report with a 14% year-over-year increase in revenue to $3.9 billion and net income (GAAP) of $689 million.
PalPal on its own generated $1.6 billion, up 19% year-over-year. It also gained 5 million active ... |
| 23.07.2013 | Online shopping assistant tool TheShoppingPro raises under $40,000 in angel funding | Intelligent Shoppro Pvt Ltd, the company that owns and operates , an online shopping assistant tool, has raised Rs 22 lakh ($36,865) in angel funding from Gaurav Bhatnagar and Ankush Nijhawan, co-... TO READ THE FULL STORY
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| 01.04.2013 | eBay’s Comparison Shopping Site Shopping.com Rebrands As Ad Platform eBay Commerce Network | Comparison shopping network Shopping.com, which was purchased by eBay back in 2005 for $620 million in cash, is officially rebranding as the eBay Commerce Network.
eBay says that the site has evolved from being a comparison shopping site to... |
| 18.01.2013 | Price comparison shopping engines | Price comparison shopping engines are getting more and more popular as customers wants to know where they can buy a particular item for the lowest price. But these comparison engines are also great for retailers. Because it grants you an op... |
| 28.11.2012 | Who Is Scroogling Who? Bing’s Shopping Results Aren’t All That Clean, Either | Microsoft started a rather controversial anti-Google campaign this morning that alleged Google is essentially misleading its users because all of the company’s shopping results are now paid. The “Don’t Get Scroogled” page is getting quite a... |
| 23.07.2012 | Wajam Partners With Shopping.com To Add Comparison Shopping To Its Social Search Engine | Wajam, one of the most promising players in social search besides Google and Microsoft, today announced that it is partnering with Shopping.com to add comparison shopping to its social search results. With this, the browser plugin now goes ... |
| 01.01.2012 | 6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012 | “In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time, we might prescribe apps.” Singularity University‘s executive director of FutureMed Daniel Kraft M.D. sat down with me to discuss the biggest emerging trends in HealthTech. Here we’ll... |
| 26.08.2011 | They’re in! Meet the DEMO Fall 2011 Speakers | The fall DEMO conference is only weeks away, on September 12-14th in Santa Clara, Calif. and we’re excited to reveal our lineup. Aside from the 60-plus companies launching products, we’ve got some amazing speakers and “sages,” who will be p... |
| 23.06.2010 | eBay Buys RedLaser From Boulder Startup Occipital | Online auction and marketplace eBay announced today that it has acquired the popular iPhone barcode scanning application RedLaser. The application and the image recognition technology behind it are built by Boulder-based TechStars graduate ... |
| 18.01.2010 | Russian online shopping club raises $20M to sell discounted designer clothes | Russian electronic commerce site KupiVIP.ru has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Accel Partners.
The Moscow-based company has been operating for a year and it has more than a million members in its online shopping club. KupiVIP.... |
| 22.04.2009 | eBay’s Q1 earnings dip despite Skype, Paypal boost | eBay has just released its first quarter financials for 2009, beating analyst estimates. But, like many other tech companies, the online auctioneer wasn’t exactly immune to the lagging economy.
By the numbers, the San Jose, Calif.-based com... |
| 17.03.2009 | Study: EBay Needs to Return to Its Roots | Over the last year, eBay has been trying to slowly move users away from its auctions and more towards purchases of fixed-priced items. Last week, however, eBay announced that it plans to return to its roots and that the company wants to put... |
| 16.03.2009 | Tekarma centralizes product reviews, customer support (invites) | Tekarma, a web site that compiles user-generated product reviews and tips in one place, launched its private beta last week. For now, the site is focused primarily on electronics, household items, cars, video games and sporting goods. Users... |
| 26.02.2009 | Mashery: APIs the Key to a Thriving Cloud | Editor’s note: this is a “Sponsor Post” by one of our long-term sponsors. These posts are clearly labeled as such, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts, and we encourage you to suppor... |
| 02.12.2008 | Bell&Ross BR03: For the French! | Just in time for the holidays we have a new Bell&Ross watch designed for the French Air Force. As you see, they’ve stuffed the same quartz movement you’ll find in the Breitling Emergency into what I’d say is a very beefy and actually qu... |
| 31.10.2008 | Product review site TestFreaks scores $3M | TestFreaks, a product review site that says it’s growing steadily, has raised $3 million in a second round of funding.
There’s a lot of competition out there — for example, we’ve covered Retrevo, which sifts through all the information onli... |
| 21.10.2008 | CheapFlights Founders Launch Retro Deals Site CheapToday | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
At a time of dwindling portfolios, mass layoffs, impending recession, and general financial queasiness, Web entrepreneurs should to go back to basics, focusing on services tha... |
| 01.08.2008 | PowerReviews aims to become the AdSense of product reviews | Updated
In early August, PowerReviews, a company that, yes, powers product review functionality for e-commerce sites, will launch a self-service platform that will enable e-merchants of any size to add reviews to their sites with a few line... |
| 25.03.2008 | Become.com raises $17.5M to take on web shopping leaders | Become.com, a startup that wants to be the Google of comparison shopping, has raised $17.5 million in a third round of funding. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company seems to be fulfilling the promise we wrote about back in 2005.
At the t... |
| 07.02.2008 | Amazon Quietly Launches Product Ads; Secretly Wants to Become a Shopping Search Engine. | Sometimes I think that Amazon secretly wants to get out of the physical retailing business. It gets much higher margins from selling digital goods, or from collecting an affiliate fee from any sales it directs to an third-party Amazon Merch... |
| 07.02.2008 | Amazon launches Product Ads, a high relevancy program to drive traffic and sales to 3rd party vendors | Amazon has just launched a trial of a new advertising program known as Product Ads. Basically an outside retailer lets Amazon know what products they would like to sell, Amazon then showcases these products in advertisements on relevant pag... |
| 15.01.2008 | Proximic Signs Deals With Yahoo and eBay To Turn Product Listings Into Contextual Ads; Taking on AdSense | A tiny 14-man startup in Munich called Proximic wants to give Google a run for its money. But it is not going after search. It is coming from behind with an attack on AdSense. Proximic has signed deals to syndicate product listings from bot... |
| 19.11.2007 | Retrevo launches clever new way to shop for consumer electronics | Today, Retrevo, the search engine for gadgets, is launching a well-executed attempt to solve the information overload problem ordinary people face when they shop for consumer electronics online.
We’ve written about Retrevo before and have b... |
| 07.05.2007 | Tumri gives you more control over ad widgets | Tumri, an online ad network, today releases a service called Tumri Publisher to give publishers more control over ads displayed on their site.
Tumri Publisher allows users to create custom, branded ads called AdPods based on product categor... |
| 07.05.2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| 29.03.2007 | The courtesan sisters of comparison search, and Thefind | Updated
If you’re searching to buy a product online, there’s no single “branded” engine that stands out — and for a reason. All of the major shopping engines sites have sold out to advertisers.
This may represent a grand opportunity: If a G... |
| 05.01.2007 | Consumer electronics search engine Retrevo raises $3.2M | Updated
Retrevo, the search engine for consumer electronics products, has raised $3.2 million more in venture capital — timing the news to generate buzz ahead the CES consumer electronics conference in Las Vegas next week.
The Sunnyvale com... |
| 23.11.2006 | Top Web Apps in Serbia | Written by Dejan Bizinger, a web
manager at Serbian media company B92.net, and edited by Richard MacManus
Serbia is a country located
in Southeast Europe with around 9 million people. Around 1.5 million Serbians use the
Internet and the maj... |
| 16.11.2006 | Yahoo! Acquires Contest Site Bix | Online karaoke and contest site Bix has signed an agreement to be acquired by Yahoo! Bix CEO Mike Speiser will continue running Bix but will also take on responsibility for product management for Yahoo! Groups, 360, and Photos under the tit... |
| 21.08.2005 | iPod Shuffle to see upgraded capacity? | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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