Apple Hopes to Usher in New Age of Personalized In-Store Shopping With...
After months of speculation, Apple today rolled out its iBeacon technology in all of its 254 U.S. stores, allowing the company to send notifications to shoppers’ phones based on their location within...
View ArticleSquare Unveils a Redesigned Square Card Reader
Square this morning announced the release of its new Square credit- and debit-card reader, available now on Squareup.com and in the new year at partnering retail stores. The company said the new reader...
View ArticleHeavily Funded Flash-Sale Site Ideeli Is for Sale
As the winners in the flash-sale category start to emerge, one of the earliest heavily funded companies is searching for a buyer. Ideeli, which has raised more than $100 million in investments to fuel...
View ArticleWireless Beacon Startup Estimote Lands $3.1 Million, Hires GroupMe Vet Steve...
Estimote, a Y Combinator graduate that makes wireless sensors — or beacons — that can be used to transmit information to nearby smartphones in environments such as retail shops, has snagged a $3.1...
View ArticleShopRunner CEO Scott Thompson Joins Board of Lead-Gen Startup Radius
Scott Thompson, the CEO of ShopRunner and onetime CEO of Yahoo, has joined the board of directors of Radius, a startup that helps salespeople build targeted lists of prospective small-business...
View ArticleAmazon Confirms San Francisco Launch of AmazonFresh Grocery Delivery Service
Amazon announced today that its AmazonFresh next-day and same-day grocery delivery service is expanding beyond Seattle and Los Angeles and into San Francisco, as AllThingsD reported last week was...
View ArticleSquare Acquires, and Will Shut Down, Evenly
Square said on Wednesday that the four-person staff of a startup called Evenly will be joining the Jack Dorsey-led company in what is essentially an “acqhire.” The Evenly app, which will be shut down...
View ArticleMasterCard and Samsung Team Up for NFC Payments in Australia
MasterCard is partnering with Samsung to bring tap-to-pay functionality to Australian shoppers who own a Samsung Galaxy S4 and have the Commonwealth Bank of Australia app loaded on their phone. The...
View ArticleBitcoin's Biggest Bet: Andreessen Horowitz Leads $25 Million Investment in...
Coinbase co-founders Brian Armstrong (l) and Fred Ehrsam, sporting we-got-money grins. If you’re a bitcoin doubter, you might want to turn away. The doors to venture funding in bitcoin startups are...
View ArticleThe Amazon Kindle Numbers That Jeff Bezos Must Really Care About
We all know that Amazon’s annual touting of its new Kindles as the best-selling Kindles ever has become laughable since the company doesn’t provide any sales figures to back up its claims. But a...
View ArticleSailthru Raises $20 Million to Spread the Gospel of Personalization
New York City-based Sailthru, which makes a software suite that helps media companies and marketers personalize editorial content and marketing messages for individual users, has raised a $20 million...
View ArticleWorker Killed at One of Amazon's New Jersey Warehouses (Update)
A man working at one of Amazon’s new warehouses was killed two weeks ago after being crushed by a piece of equipment, according to the Department of Labor. The accident occurred on Dec. 4 at an Amazon...
View ArticleTristan Walker’s Next Act: Building a Procter & Gamble for People of Color
In his first few months as an entrepreneur in residence at Andreessen Horowitz, Tristan Walker dreamed big when it came to startup ideas. There were the seeds he planted for a new kind of bank. There...
View ArticleIf China Wanted to Ban Bitcoin, It Would Ban Bitcoin
The price of bitcoin has taken a beating in the last day following a move by the Chinese government to ban new Chinese yuan deposits in the country’s biggest bitcoin exchange, BTC China. That move...
View ArticleBraintree Officially Joins PayPal as $800 Million eBay Acquisition Closes
EBay’s $800 million purchase of payments startup Braintree on behalf of its Paypal subsidiary has closed, according to a PayPal blog post. The acquisition gives Paypal a strong foothold in the world of...
View ArticleChina Bitcoin Exchange CEO: We're Not Giving Up Yet
The largest bitcoin exchange in China, BTC China, is in peril after regulators in the country reportedly moved to block payment processors from accepting the virtual currency. The move leaves the...
View ArticleIn Wake of Card Data Breach, Target's Redcard Website Has Been Down All Day
When Target this morning acknowledged a security breach of data from up to 40 million credit and debit cards used in its stores over a two-week period beginning around Thanksgiving, it told its...
View ArticleWarby Parker Is Seeing Green After New $60 Million Investment
Warby Parker, the eyewear startup that has built a cult following in a short time, has raised a new $60 million investment led by its biggest investor, Tiger Global Management, as was first reported by...
View ArticleJack Dorsey's Holiday Gift to Square: 10 Percent of His Shares
In a rare move for any executive, Square CEO Jack Dorsey has returned about 10 percent of his stake — or about three percent of all company shares — back to the company. The move, which Fortune...
View ArticleReal-Time Marketing Hits New Low, Starring Gogo and Justine Sacco (Updated)
Shutterstock/R. Gino Santa Maria When will brands learn? In a race to be crowned the next Oreo, it seems as though every week another advertiser makes a really dumb decision on social media, by trying...
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