July 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, officially launched its “Facebook For Business” page last night. The move is likely a push to get ahead of Google+, which launched last month and already has over 20 million users. Google has come under some fire from business owners, [...]
WhiteHat Security Acquires $8 Million in Funding
July 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team WhiteHat Security, a leading online security firm specializing in ecommerce solutions, financial institutions, and healthcare outfits has announced that they’ve raised eight million dollars in investment funding from Investor Growth Capital (IGC). IGC specializes in growing organizations organically from the inside out, giving them the capital and [...]
Netflix and Walmart Duke It Out with Streaming Movies
July 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In the wake of Netflix’s gutsy decision to increase the prices on their streaming movies plus DVDs-by-mail combo package, their stock is down and a new contender has entered the ring (but will you be putting their digital movies into your shopping cart?). About two weeks ago [...]
Amazon Ecommerce Solution Patent Woes
July 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Something is always going on at Amazon – as the world’s largest ecommerce solution, it would be hard not to. With their wildly successful ebook/ereader business, online music system, and developing tablet/cellphone possibilities, they are going in a lot of different directions. However, a legal challenge has [...]
Adorama Implements TurnTo for Q and A
July 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Technology moves fast. Everybody knows this. Technology has moved fast for as long as technology has existed. And the more technology is created, the fast the landscape for everything that touches it will change. TurnTo is one company that exemplifies the rapid changes that the world of [...]
Exclusive Interview with Zmags’ CEO Michael Schreck
July 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Every once in a while we’re fortunate enough here at Zippycart to snag some quality time with a leading figure in the world of ecommerce. Today we’re presenting a special interview that we had recently with Zmags’ CEO Michael Schreck. He gave us the inside story on [...]
Airbnb Raises Another 100 Million Dollars
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Startup valuation are all over the place these days. With ecommerce solution Zillow’s IPO skyrocketing even before the stock went on the market, as well as the LinkedIn and Pandora IPOs (and the still-looming shadow of Groupon, with its incredibly high valuation [which many believe may be [...]
Geekatoo Aims At Best Buy’s Geek Squad
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Yet another bird-related startup name has emerged in the world of tech. Geekatoo is taking aim at Geek Squad and other local computer-fixers everywhere. The website is very similar to Freelance.com’s ecommerce solution, and hopes to help keep people from getting taken advantage of. Geek Squad charges [...]
Apple CFO All But Confirms iPhone 5 in September
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Following hot on the heels of Apple’s massive quarter, the CFO of Apple essentially confirmed the upcoming September release of the iPhone 5. The new phone is expected to be a massive hit, as a recent report claims 35% of the US public is waiting to add [...]
Mobile App Solution Canvas Secures Series B Funding
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The world of mobile apps is growing every day and in every imaginable direction. However, even amidst all this rapid expansion, not every company that wants or needs a custom mobile app has the ability to create one to suit their needs. That’s changing with the advent [...]
Forever 27: Amy Winehouse Music Sales Surges
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team One of the most sobering moments in life is the untimely passing of a talented artist at a young age. Consider those in the music industry — Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, all young artists who have mysteriously passed at the [...]
French School Teacher Loses Internet Privileges
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team For those of you who hate going through ecommerce solutions to actually buy music or movies, do not go to Europe to steal your media! Unlike running nude on beaches and a huge beer festivals, the internets of Europe are tightly controlled. And with a newly implemented [...]
Ecommerce Solution SavingStar Gains 500,000 Users
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Coupons are great, but most of the time it’s a pain to find the coupon, clip it out and make it to the store without forgetting them altogether. Lots of companies have tried in the past to make digital coupons easier to use, but SavingStar is a [...]
Send The Trend, Launches “My Style” – Still $30 Per Month
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A recently launched ecommerce solution, Send The Trend, has just launched a new service dubbed My Style. The site is concentrated around the world of accessories! (OMG, yes i’m serious). Their new service, My Style, allows users to help their friends find the best additions to accentuate [...]
Average iPhone and Android In-App Shopping Cart Reaches $14
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Most iPhone and Android users are familiar with how freemium App content works. First, the user downloads a game from their respective App Store, which they can then play for free. The number of features or levels available to the free user are intentionally limited, encouraging the [...]
Panasonic Raboo Goes Into Japanese Shopping Carts
July 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The Japanese have a unique ereader/tablet to put in their shopping carts starting late last week. The Raboo (short for RAkuten BOOks, after the country’s biggest ecommerce company) started selling overseas and has a lot of people talking. The Panasonic product will roll out with immediate access [...]


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