Based in Ottawa, Canada, Shopify is an online software-as-a-service eCommerce platform that’s enabling entrepreneurs to create new online businesses in a markedly poor economy. Shopify has powered over 16,000 online stores (ranging from Amnesty International to Angry Birds) and a user base that is spread to 79 countries across the globe since its launch in 2007. According to...
Netflix’s shares continue to get battered, hitting a 52 week low today. Investors really hate the Qwikster move. Image: Yahoo See Also: Netflix Splits In Two — The DVD Business Will Be Renamed Qwikster REED HASTINGS: Here’s Why We’re Splitting Netflix In Two And Calling The DVD Business “Qwikster” Why Reed Hastings Should Be...
Is Google a media owner or a technology company? According to Sir Martin Sorrell, The co-founder and CEO of WPP, the world’s largest marketing and advertising company, Google is a “media owner masquerading as a technology company.” The straight-talking Sorrell made this controversial observation in his annual state-of-the-union talk at Stream, WPP’s unconference held...
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While connected devices and their apps are rapidly gaining popularity, they don’t fully enable the mobile, multimedia and social lifestyle that people want. Instead of today’s fractured and frustrating experience, people need intuitive, personalized and integrated apps and services for their netbooks, e-books, tablets and other connected devices. Service providers can capitalize on their...
Stipple, a technology that allows you to tag people in images no matter where they reside on the web, is debuting a new product today—image licensing platform Stipple Marketplace. Instead of paying to license images and then running ads to hopefully offset the image’s cost, publishers can now license photos pre-loaded with revenue and...
Imagine that your brand has the power to own and individually advertise over every single image your product might be featured in. Or imagine instead that as a publisher, any photo you use on your site now has the potential to earn you money because it already belongs to a set of brand-owned and...
After conquering online retail in diapers, soaps, beauty products, most recently pet supplies, Amazon-owned Quidsi is moving into its next vertical—toys. Quidsi is debuting YoYo.com, a toy e-commerce site that aims to provide handpicked recommendations and discovery tools to make kids toy shopping easy and fun. For background, Quidsi launched with Diapers.com, which quickly...
Ian White and Neil Capel cofounded Sailthru. See Also: Behavioral Email Startup Sailthru Raises $1 Million Led By DFJ Gotham Forget TechCrunch: Arrington Is Launching A New Blog Forget TechCrunch: Arrington Is Launching A New Blog Sailthru, a New York startup that personalizes and recommends web content for users, just raised an $8 million...
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