commerce
Google SVP Jeff Huber Steps Aside As The Company Divides Mapping And Commerce Units, Will Join Google X
A new report from the Wall Street Journal just out say that Google has made more major executive staffing and organizational changes today, breaking up the Maps and Commerce units,…
Squarespace Adds Commerce System For A High-Class Blogging/Sales Experience
Squarespace knows from fancy. They make dead-simple websites for people who require a high level of design and elegance and, unlike, say, our website, a lot of Squarespace sites are…
Yelp Misses In Q4 With Net Loss Of $5.3M, While Revenues Were Up 65 Percent To $41M
Today, Yelp announced its fourth-quarter earnings, and they weren’t as sunny as some as hoped. Net revenue was $41.2 million in Q4 of 2012 — a 65 percent growth in…
BarkBox, The Birchbox For Dog Lovers, Launches Companion Mobile App
BarkBox, the subscription-based service that sends pet owners a box of goodies on a monthly basis, has launched a companion mobile application. The app isn’t merely a mini version of…
Google Shopping’s Transition To Pay-For-Play Expands Internationally, Search Results To Change By Feb. 13
Google Shopping’s pay-to-play service is going global. The commerce-focused vertical formerly known as Google Product Search, is now expanding the roll out of its commercial model to other countries outside…
Twitter Gains Another Googler, Former Managing Director Of Commerce In Asia Pacific, Aliza Knox
Twitter has hired another Google employee, and this time it’s someone with a heavy focus on business and sales. The Googler is Aliza Knox, who ran Business and Sales for…
HashTip is a new mobile app targeting savvy shoppers, primarily moms, who want to share tips with each other about kids’ products, activities and deals. (OK, cue snarky comment about…
The Next Big E-Commerce Wave: Vertically Integrated Commerce
Editor’s note: Boris Wertz is the founder of version one ventures, and has invested in more than 35 early-stage consumer Internet and mobile companies, including Chloe & Isabel, Julep, and Indochino.…
Editor’s note: Nasir Jones is co-founder of 12Society and a multi-platinum recording artist. Follow him at NasirJones.com and on Twitter: @Nas. On July 24, I found out that my newest album…
Empty Walls Got You Down? TurningArt Nabs $1.5M For Its Netflix-Style Art Rental Service
Paddle8, Artsy, Zazzle, and Art.com are all part of a growing contingent of startups that are on a mission to democratize the purchase, discovery, and enjoyment of art by bringing…
Don’t Just Pin It, Buy It: Pinterest Rival Fancy Figures Out Social Commerce
Amid the increased speculation surrounding Silicon Valley darling Pinterest’s forthcoming revenue model, competitor Fancy, a social photo-clipping service popular among the style-conscious set, has been quietly working on revenue ideas of its…
I was just reading over the excellent (and long) story about Best Buy at Forbes and wondered, in light of today’s B&N announcement to pull the Nook financials out of…
Musings on the Mobile Web: Commerce, Apps, and More
Ever since I started contributing to the TechCrunch empire, my inbox has received a pretty steady stream of pitches for new (and not-so-new) products and services. Some of them merit…
Unity Trans-Pacific fiber optic cable to vastly increases bandwidth capacity
[photopress:fiberunity.jpg,full,right] I can’t stand the name—Unity—but I recognize its worth. Kinda. Six international companies have signed up to create a new Trans-Pacific Internet fiber optic cable that may (the numbers…
Several small towns in Britain have a problem with GPS. You know how when you’re using a GPS device and you program the shortest route? Many times, the shortest route…