January 6, 2012 By the ZippyCart Content Team There are several activities people engage in while drunk that are generally looked down upon like drunk driving, dialing or texting. However, ecommerce retailers are loving a new activity that is swiftly gaining popularity: drunk online shopping. According to a recent study in the UK, many respondents [...]
Ecommerce Solution Sharing Spree Combines Daily Deals and Philanthropy
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 Gets in the Holiday Spirit With Grouponicus
November 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Groupo the Bargain Bird is back and that can only mean one thing: It’s Grouponicus time! For those of you who missed it last year, Grouponicus is a holiday created by daily deal site Groupon in 2010. It is symbolized by Groupo the Bargain Bird (nothing says [...]
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 [...]
Taking a “peeq” at Ecommerce Solution “sneakpeeq”
October 7, 2011 By The ZippyCart Content Team If there’s one thing we know about online shoppers, it’s that they can’t pass up a great deal. This truth is validated by the ever-increasing number of people flocking to group-buy and flash sale sites. The booming industry, most often promoting daily deals to create a sense [...]
Is Groupon Sneaking onto the Scene of Ecommerce?
September 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Wednesday morning, daily deal site Groupon.com quietly rolled out their latest endeavor: Groupon Goods. Coming just one day after the introduction of Groupon Rewards, a customer loyalty program to officially launch next month, Groupon Goods features discounted direct buy products instead of their usual coupon deals. Unlike [...]
Yelp: Death of a (Daily Deal) Salesman
August 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team After just a year since its own public launch of daily deals, the social review site Yelp has raised the white flag and is the latest contender to bow out of the daily deal business competition. The announcement comes on the heels of social network giant Facebook, [...]
Yipit.com: Groupon and Travel Sites Are Up, LivingSocial is Down
August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Yipit.com recently compiled, analyzed and released sales and traffic data from the top Daily Deal sites for the month of July. Overall, July was not a memorable month for the daily deals industry, though there were a few clear winners. The results are not all that surprising: [...]
Group Commerce Acquires Geo-Location Startup Socialight
August 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Group Commerce, a New York based company that offers turn-key solutions for companies looking to offer their own daily deals, has acquired geo-location start-up Socialight. The Socialight team and technology will be put toward developing Group Commerce’s mobile strategy, Group Commerce CEO Jonty Kelt and Socialight founder [...]
Groupon Q2 Numbers: Growing Pains or a Red Flag?
August 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Have you ever seen a young child run too fast for its own body to catch up it becomes unclear whether or not he or she will take a tumble or just keep running at that momentum? It’s a strange analogy but it seems these days, the [...]
A Starbucks Karma-Based Social Experiment
August 8, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Jonathan Stark, a programmer and entrepreneur, has decided to try a new social experiment that is circled around the take-a-penny leave-a-penny mantra. After all this talk about mobile wallets and such we’ve seemingly forgot about the mobile Starbucks card application. This allows people to refill their cards [...]
WhaleShark Receives $10m From Google Ventures
August 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Google Ventures has decided to take a share in online coupon ecommerce solutions. Today, WhaleShark Media has announced that they received a $10 million round in funding from Google. This puts their funding total up to $133 million since inception. The company was founded in 2009 and [...]
Google Acquires Dealmap – Groupon Using Sketchy Accounting?
August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team More and more daily deal sites have been popping up in the the world of ecommerce solutions. Today, Dealmap was acquired by Google for an undisclosed amount. The website claims to have 2 million users that check the site regularly for daily deals. Dealmap currently has 450 [...]
Ecommerce Solution Snapdeal.com Gains $40 Million in Funding
July 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Groupon may be all the rage for deal-a-day sites here in the States, but Snapdeal.com is the one making waves in India. The country of 1.21 billion loves the New Delhi-based deal-a-day site, which also offers a products and “getaways” page. The company announced today that it [...]
Cardagin: The New Daily Deal Service Receives $4.25 Million
July 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Cardagin, a mobile advertising and loyalty program has snatched up $4.25 million in a Series A-1 funding round. This new influx of cash brings Cardagin’s funding up to $5.25 million after the first Series A round of $1 million. The company hopes to take daily deals to [...]
Groupon Acquires Zappedy – Local Business Focused Ecommerce Solution
July 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Zappedy, a company focused on helping local business get their ecommerce solutions up and running, has been acquired by Groupon. Pricing and other terms of the acquisition have not been stated publicly. The only thing we know is that Zappedy’s website has a very large Groupon logo [...]
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