December 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The concept of linking sales to non-profits is a swiftly growing phenomenon. Websites like Nonprofitshoppingmall.com and GoodShop.com allow consumers to donate to charities through their ecommerce purchases using a click-through technology. Although these websites have been around for the past decade, their success has been limited and [...]
Groupon Co-founders Invest in Belly
December 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Belly, a Chicago-based startup formerly known as “Bellyflop,” has secured more than $1 million in funding from Lightbank. Lightbank is an investment vehicle owned by Groupon co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, that also contributed $1.5 million in seed funding to Benzinga this past May. Belly integrates [...]
Shopcade Integrates Social Networking and Ecommerce
November 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Shopcade has introduced a new social shopping application for Facebook users. Launched yesterday, Shopcade attempts to offer the millions of users on Facebook a true social shopping experience. The app allows users to browse, buy, and share products while [...]
Spotzot Provides Deals To Shoppers With Increased Relevance
November 21, 2011 By the Zippycart Content Team Spotzot is a deal targeting platform that allows retailers to target customers with offers and coupons based on location and intent. The platform searches thousands of sources for in-store and online promotions every day and then categorizes the deals and delivers them through free publisher APIs. The [...]
BookRenter Continues to Innovate On and Offline
November 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team BookRenter, a college textbook rental ecommerce solution, this week announced plans to expand its local services. The San Mateo-based leader in textbook rentals provides a unique platform on which students can rent textbooks both online and directly from on-campus bookstores. The BookRenter platform allows students to rent [...]
Ecommerce Startup ReDigi to Cease-and-Desist?
November 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The Recording Industry Association of America is demanding that ecommerce solution ReDigi entirely shuts down their recently launched website. ReDigi is an online marketplace for the buying and selling of legally downloaded “used” digital music tracks. The company’s vision is to enable users to sell their legally [...]
Room 77 Now Offers Online Booking
November 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Room 77 has expanded their comprehensive search engine and hotel room review website and will now allow travelers to book hotel rooms directly from their site. The new Room 77 feature helps travelers ensure they are booking the perfect room at their desired hotel. The site launched [...]
myTab Provides New Social Gifting Ecommerce Solution
November 9, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team myTab provides an ecommerce solution for those who want to travel but need a creative way to generate funding. For example, studying abroad is without a doubt one of the best experiences one can have when in college. However, it can also be terribly expensive, making it [...]
Lot18 Gets $30 Million For Its First Birthday
November 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Wine flash sale site Lot18 will be turning one year old next week and certainly has a lot to celebrate. Since Lot18 began selling wine last November the site has gained more than 500,000 members, sold more than 500,000 bottles of wine, grown from six employees to [...]
Giftiki Offers a Creative Approach to Collaborative Ecommerce
November 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team New collaborative ecommerce solution Giftiki is a group gift giving platform that allows friends to pool their money together to buy a friend a combined gift. Launched less than 4 weeks ago, Giftiki is in its first stage of beta but has already enjoyed more success than [...]
MoPub Marketplace Gives Mobile Publishers Control Over Ads
October 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team MoPub Marketplace is a real-time bidding platform for mobile ads that directly connects publishers with ad buyers. The marketplace acts as a virtual trading floor that allows mobile ad buyers to bid on ad space from app publishers without going through an ad network. Advertisers are able [...]
Social Ecommmerce Solution Sociable Labs Raises $7 Million
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Social ecommerce solution provider Sociable Labs has raised $7 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures. The announcement came Wednesday after the company emerged out of stealth. Existing investor Javelin Venture Partners also contributed to this round of funding. Sociable Labs, a 25-person [...]
Dropbox Secures $250 Million; Competes With iCloud
October 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Dropbox announced Tuesday that it has secured $250 million in a Series B round of funding led by Index Ventures. Dropbox is a company that uses cloud storage technology to provide a place where users can store and share files on the Internet. The service boasts 50 [...]
Shopify Announces $15 Million in Funding
October 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce platform Shopify announced Monday that it has accumulated $15 million in Series B financing. The primary investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Felicis Ventures, and Georgian Partner. The Ottawa, Canada start-up is a popular platform for businesses who are looking for an ecommerce solution but [...]
Ecommerce Software Platform, Vendio, Launches Blogger Contest
October 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Attention all bloggers! Do you live and breathe blogging? Are you passionate about ecommerce and ecommerce solutions? Can you write a more enticing introduction than this (don’t lie to yourself…)? If you answered yes to these questions, you may want to check out Vendio.com. Vendio Services, Inc. [...]
VendASnack Provides Ecommerce Solution For Snacking
October 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team You put your only crinkled dollar bill into the dated vending machine, press the button for Peanut M&Ms, and begin to shout angrily and kick the machine as the package gets stuck right in front of your face. This is just one of many frustrated interactions between [...]
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