The next round in CityDeal poker: Not two months have passed for the Groupon clone since their first 4 million euro, and now they are getting a 5 million euro injection from the Samwer house: + Read more
Not a long time ago, Groupon clone LivingSocial raised $5 million for itself. A few days ago, they put another $25 million on top: + Read more
After the departure of CEO Gunnar Piening last December, his successor Ralph Werner has also left Swoopo at the beginning of February (after only 8 months). + Read more
This is a further post for our loose series on “Shopping Systems of the Future”.While the next e-commerce generation has long been hoping for new and more sales oriented shopping systems, in the classical warehouse oriented e-commerce world, Amazon is still the ultimate role model for online trade. + Read more
2010 is the year in which most Marketers are shifting from social media and mobile dabblers to believers. The challenge Marketers face is that the enabling technology is still designed for dabbling. Nearly every Marketer is forced to create one-off Facebook apps, separate iPhone apps and separate websites with no common content management system, analytics, testing or targeting. This creates a significant challenge as Marketers move to scale their efforts up and measure results. + Read more
Everything is suddenly possible again in the e-commerce world. In the US in particular, interest in extreme e-commerce models is rising steeply (“Are you ready for extreme retailing?”).Joshua Goldman from Norwest Venture Partners gave a short introduction to Swooponomics at the Retail Innovation & Marketing Conference: + Read more
Brands4Friends Goes the World: It feels almost like there aren’t any more countries where B4F founding investor Oliver Jung and his cohorts haven’t got a shopping club investment stake.A few days ago an announcement came by email which mentions for the first time publicly the “global shopping club alliance”: + Read more
Overambitious lawyers are the bane of every serious startup company. At the moment, Groupon is finding it necessary to defend against a class action lawsuit in the USA - and is doing so with its customary tongue-in-cheek style (“Groupon Organizes Class Action Against Itself”): + Read more
Private Sales is one of the hottest online retail concepts with: + Read more
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Facebook is getting serious with their efforts to create a global web currency. With the start of their closed beta phase, Facebook will burden their Facebook credits with a 30% fee. + Read more
At latest since Facebook, the gameification of the (web) world is continuing its steady advance: "Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era." What can be learnt with this presentation, amongst others: + Read more
Be it Spreadshirt, Threadless, Etsy or now Polyvore, nowadays you can set your watch against the time it takes between a big round of financing and the point where investors lose their patience and get a professional CEO to take the reins.And it isn’t as if they aren’t making enough efforts: + Read more
Interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times about blogs which combine “shop the look” with celebrity photos. + Read more
Hollrr is the answer to the question we raised earlier: how should a Twitter for shoppers look like?Even their tagline “Shout about the things you love!” is pretty close to the question/slogan we put out in the German language “Was ist gerade cool und angesagt?” (what is cool and hip?) + Read more
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