May 7, 2015
Facebook Launches In-App Purchase Install Ads
Facebook is combining its lucrative app install ads with deep linking so a specific in-app purchase page opens once the app downloads. The result is a powerful new…
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May 7, 2015
Mattress Startup Casper Plans To Open Pop-Up Stores In San Francisco, Austin and Washington, D.C.
Casper is known for bringing the mattress buying experience online, but it’s also trying out new approaches to brick-and-mortar retail. In fact, co-founder and CEO Philip Krim said…
Read articleMay 3, 2015
With Gruberie, Your Waiter Doesn’t Need To Take Your Order
One of the hacks from our Disrupt NY Hackathon already has a customer: in less than 24 hours, Gruberie set up a site, built an app, and convinced…
Read articleApril 30, 2015
NeonMob Is A Platform For Creating, Trading, And Collecting Digital Art
Digital art is gaining popularity, with companies like Curioos dedicating entire marketplaces to the medium, but the idea of scarcity when it comes to the Internet is relatively…
Read articleApril 29, 2015
DroneBase Lets Any Business Rent A Drone And Pilot
You don’t want to own a drone. Or learn to fly a drone. Or hire someone full-time to fly a drone. And you definitely don’t want to pay…
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Fetch Lets You Buy, Book Or Schedule Anything From Your Apple Watch
A number of startups, including Magic, Operator and GoButler, are focusing on fulfilling customers’ commerce-related requests which are sent in via mobile app or SMS requests. But today,…
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Loop Commerce Raises $16 Million For Its “E-Gifting” Checkout Service For Online Retailers
Loop Commerce, a company that has developed an alternative checkout technology for e-commerce sites that allows customers to more easily buy gifts for friends without having to worry…
Read articleApril 27, 2015
Etsy CTO On Its Conservatively Crafty Tech Philosophy
The online artisans’ marketplace sells some unique products and has some unusual needs when it comes to IT. The company sets itself apart in a number of ways.…
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Discover Signs On With Apple Pay
Credit card provider Discover will join Apple Pay’s ranks beginning this fall, the company announced today. Apple Pay already supports cards from Visa, MasterCard and American Express, and…
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First Look At Uber’s Co-Founder’s Shopping Concierge “Operator”
Operator wants to “unlock the 90% of commerce that’s not on the Internet”, CEO Robin Chan tells me. After two years in stealth, Chan was finally willing to…
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