Every year, tons of food ends up in landfills because of cosmetic issues (they won’t look nice in stores) or inefficiencies in the supply chain. Singapore-based TreeDots, which says it is the first
Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. This means people in smaller cities or rural areas need to deal with
KitaBeli, an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A. The round was led by Go Ventures, whose cornerstone investor is Gojek, with particip
Nearly all of China’s largest internet firms have established a presence in online grocery. Just this week, news arrived that Alibaba co-led the $196 million C3 funding round of Nice Tuan, the t
<a href="http://www.bagthat.com">BagThat</a>, a new UK entrant to the daily-deals/e-commerce space, has picked up an investment of £2 million ($3.2 million) to develop its service, a mash-up of two w
Group buying is moving into the commercial clean energy space thanks to <a href="http://www.wri.org/project/technology/renewable-energy-and-efficiency/solar-at-work">Solar@Work</a>, a program designed
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<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/picture-52.png" />Dog lovers, this one's for you. <a href="http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/pet_overpopulation/facts/pet_ownership_statisti
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<em><strong>Editor's note:</strong> Should media sites become group buying sites as well? Guest author Dave Chase