Social Shopping

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is ann

Twitter’s e-commerce initiatives now include livestream shopping and Walmart will be the first retailer to test the new platform. Over the past year, Walmart has invested in live shopping by hos

Instagram today announced it’s adding a new feature to help connect online shoppers to product drops through its app. Drops, which are a newer e-commerce trend, help sellers create buzz for fort

Bump, the Y Combinator-backed marketplace for streetwear, is announcing that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. Bump’s Jack Ryder told me that even before starting the company, he a

I've seen attempts before to make online shopping "social." There have been Chrome plugins, Firefox plugins, browser overlays...I'm not sure it ever worked out. A startup called Zurf that presented

Walmart's Silicon Valley R&D group @WalmartLabs is announcing this morning that it has acquired its 14th startup, social marketplace Luvocracy. As part of the deal, @WalmartLabs will bring in a to

Wish, a social shopping site and mobile application, raised $50 million in new funding in a round led by Founders Fund, with participation from existing investors Formation 8, GGV Capital, Yahoo co-fo

Nuji, a U.K. competitor to Wanelo and Lyst which also offers its users a platform to curate and share fashion and lifestyle products they reckon are worth buying, has closed a $2 million seed round wi

MallWeGo is launching at the Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley today with a social, gaming shopping experience for web and mobile. The company has built a virtual world for socialising with friends in ava

<p style="text-align:left;">Nothing says modern web tech technology like making print shopping catalogs available online - or at least that's what Microsoft and shopping search engine <a target="_blan

Some more developments for Referly, the Y-Combinator/500 Startups company co-founded by Twilio's ex-head of marketing, Danielle Morrill. In what may be a hat-tip to the adept use of APIs at her form

The same guys who built the Pinterest analytics service <a target="_blank" href="http://signup.pintics.com/">Pintics</a> spent the weekend at the AngelHack Hackathon in Palo Alto working on another Pi

<a href="https://www.jackthreads.com">JackThreads</a>, the members-only shopping club bought by men's lifestyle brand <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/thrillist-com">Thrillist</a> two years

It's not a given that a leader in search can successfully pivot into other areas like social media -- just <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/28/buzz-off-google-buzz/">ask Google</a> -- but a new

Design shopping site <a href="http://www.fab.com">Fab.com</a> is debuting the next major release of its platform today, Fab 3.0, which is going live on the U.S.-based Fab.com first. The revamp focuses

Beware, the sky is falling! Or at least that’s what we’re hearing from some experts on F-commerce following announcements from a few big name retailers in recent weeks that they are shuttering the