July 8, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team BitCoin users who have yearned for a more legitimate solution for exchanging the online currency may be in luck. A new ecommerce solution called Camp BX is looking to legitimize BitCoin, the strictly online currency that is popular with the tech community. Camp BX founder Keyur Mithawala [...]
How to Attach a $3,000 Lens to your iPhone 4
July 8, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you’re one of the many who own an iPhone 4 and want to upgrade your camera lens, today’s your lucky day. A company called Photojojo has created an iPhone SLR mount that converts the smaller built-in camera into a much larger contraption. With the mount you [...]
eBay Buys Ecommerce Solution Zong
July 8, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team PayPal and its parent company eBay announced their purchase of mobile ecommerce solution Zong today. Zong provides consumers the opportunity to purchase and pay for products online via their monthly phone bill, rather than a credit card. Zong will receive a cool $240 million in cash in [...]
Guest Blogger Monday Official Submission Page
Hi, my name is Jack Cieslak. I’m the SEO Content Marketing Manager here at Zippycart. We set up this page and the form below to tell you about a new content campaign that we’re super-excited about: Guest Blogger Monday! Please read this entire page (you can tell when I’m being serious when I use bold [...]
TapJoy Lands $30M In Funding – Switches Focus
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team TapJoy, a leading developer of mobile games, has announced that they have raised $30 million in Series D funding. The funding round was led by JP Morgan, and also had some of TapJoy’s previous investors, namely Rho Ventures and North Bridge Ventuer Partners. Just six months ago [...]
Spotify Announces Official US Release
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In what is possibly some of the biggest news this year for the US music industry, Spotify announced that it will officially hit the US market within the next two weeks. Spotify, currently available to European customers only, is an online music service that allows users to [...]
Microsoft Now Targeting Samsung for Android Royalties
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Android is an extremely lucrative business for Google but according to recent reports it could also churn a heavy profit for Microsoft. The company has signed various patent licensing agreements with Android manufacturers and in the process of a lucrative deal with Samsung. There are currently 500,000 [...]
LocalUp Makes Food Delivery Very Local
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team GrubHub is a service that allows you to easily order food for delivery or takeout from in-city restaurants. The service makes it easy to find restaurants that deliver, but only in big cities. LocalUp has taken that model and is implementing it into smaller town and cities. [...]
Major Banks Selling Consumer Shopping Cart Info
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Major retailers interested in where, what, and how consumers are purchasing online can now buy that information from US banks. Major US banks such as Wells Fargo, Citi, USAA, Sovereign Bank and Discover have started selling their clients’ shopping cart data to major retailers in exchange for [...]
Kanye & Jay-Z’s ‘Watch the Throne’ Available for Preorder
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Def Jam has begun taking pre-orders for the highly anticipated album Watch the Throne recorded by super-group H.A.M. The stars that compose the hip-hop group are made up of Kanye West and Jay-Z, with guest appearances by Bruno Mars and Jay’s wife Beyoncé. Fans who just can’t [...]
Verizon to Eliminate Unlimited Data Plans
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It may be time to ditch that old Verizon phone and add a new smartphone to your shopping cart from Sprint. The country’s biggest cellphone carrier, Verizon, announced that its users will have to sign up for a usage-based data plan to accompany their handset. AT&T has [...]
Wag.com Shows New Tricks for Online Pet Supply
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Quidsi, the people behind Diapers.com and Soap.com, have started a new pet supply venture called Wag.com. The new company will be owned by Amazon and will sell over 10,000 different pet care items, including food, kennels, and vitamins. The site is currently in beta, but is open [...]
UK Survey Sheds Light on Shopping Cart Issues
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A recent ecommerce consultancy survey powered by the Toluna Quick tool has come back with a lot of interesting and useful information about the way ecommerce sites and shopping cart solutions are doing business – or just as importantly, where they are losing business. The survey gathered [...]
Eminem Breaks 1 Million Album Downloads
July 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team At first glance this story may seem a little odd: Eminem, the highly controversial rapper and Detroit native, is the first musical artist to ever sell 1 million digital downloads of an album with his latest full album “Recovery.” Any strangeness connected to this story isn’t from [...]
BrightStar Acquires FlipSwap For Undisclosed Amount
July 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team With cellphone technology progressing at a mile a minute, more and more people log on to their favorite ecommerce solution to grab the latest smartphone or other device. Most people end up throwing their old cellphones away into landfills, when they can actually be recycled. Many environmentalist [...]
UppSite Puts Your Blog In The App Store
July 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A new startup out of Israel that utilizes the built-in notification system on Android and iOS 5 to help you keep track of your blog has recently launched. UppSite allows forum and blog owners to create an iPhone or Android native app, just by installing a plugin. [...]


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