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Black Friday Online Sales Up 8.5% Over Last Year, 20% Of Sales Came From iOS
Online retailers had a good Black Friday, with sales up over 8% from a year ago, and nearly 47% of online traffic coming from mobile devices throughout the day. Mobile played a big role this year in terms of both traffic and sales, and yesterday was especially notable for being the first Thanksgiving Day where mobile traffic to online retailers accounted for more than half of all online traffic. Read More
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IBM: Thanksgiving Online Sales Up 14%, One-Third Of Sales On Mobile Led By iOS
Black Friday is traditionally thought of as the first day of holiday shopping in the U.S., but with more buying options (and promotions) becoming available online, many are now starting their shopping a day earlier, on Thanksgiving. As a bellwether for how e-commerce companies will fare in the busiest buying period of the year, yesterday was a mixed (shopping) bag. Overall sales were up… Read More
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Canopy Brings A Curated Amazon Shopping Experience To The iPhone
A company called Canopy launched last year to bring a more curated and community-driven experience to shopping Amazon products, with an organized catalog of recommended items, and a number of tools for finding and saving favorites. Today, Canopy is bringing that same experience to mobile with the launch of the Canopy iOS application. Like its web-based counterpart, the iOS app offers a… Read More
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Twitter Expands Its Commerce Lineup With Twitter Offers, Which Link To Your Credit Or Debit Card
Twitter just announced that it’s testing a new commerce product called Twitter Offers.Going Out App YPlan Raises $24M As It Lays Off Staff, Plans Pivot Into Long-Tail Events
YPlan — the app that gives people with no plans a curated selection of things to do and the ability to buy tickets to do them — has some big plans of its own. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the startup has raised another $24 million — funding that comes at a key time for the company. YPlan is planning a pivot, of sorts: in a bid to boost the number… Read More
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Goldbely Debuts An App That Lets You Order Gourmet, Regional Cuisine From Anywhere In The U.S.
Goldbely, the Y Combinator-backed startup that lets you order gourmet foods from around the U.S. is now on mobile. The company just launched its first app with Goldbely for iOS, which also includes a newly added next-day shipping feature for getting its tasty treats more quickly than before – whether that’s a real Philly cheesesteak, deep dish pizza from Chicago, Maryland crab… Read More
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Ebay Now Pulled From App Store As Company Rethinks Its Same-Day Delivery Plans
Ebay Now, the same-day local delivery service from the online marketplace giant, was pulled from the App Store over the weekend, where previously it allowed mobile customers to shop from their phones in order to receive items from nearby retailers later that day for an additional $5 fee. The changes come about as eBay is rethinking how it wants to handle the high costs associated with… Read More
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Savings.com’s New App Called PriceJump Finds You The Lowest Price, Online, On Amazon Or In-Store
Amazon has a reputation for having low prices, but that’s not always the case. Savings.com recently revealed via its price comparison tool that, half the time, Amazon had higher prices than its online competitors. Today, the company is furthering its price comparison efforts with the launch of an app that helps shoppers figure out where to buy for the lowest price across three… Read More
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Sproutkin Ditches Its “Netflix For Kids’ Books” Service, Moves Into Digital Subscriptions
Parents weren’t interested in a “Netflix for Children’s Books” service, apparently. A company called Sproutkin, which launched in spring of 2013 offering shipments of just under a dozen books which parents paid for on a monthly basis but could return at any time for a new batch. The idea was that, in their younger years, kids quickly outgrew their books, and this would… Read More
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OrderWithMe Raises Another $28M To Help Small Businesses Procure Like Big Ones
OrderWithMe, a startup based out of Las Vegas that has built a platform for small businesses to come together to effectively act like big ones to source, order and pay for supplies and components – has raised another $28 million in funding. The company says the money will be used to build out its operations to new verticals — it has “multiple industry partners lined… Read More
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