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Shopflick Raises $7 Million For Video-Based Shopping Marketplace - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Jul 2008 07:49 PM PST

Shopflick, a site where merchants can show off their wares through video, has raised a $7 million first round from Panorama Capital and Venrock. Basically, the LA-based site lets third…

Borders Opens Online Store; Won’t ‘Out-Amazon’ Former Partner - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 27 May 2008 05:35 AM PST

As Borders finally takes control of its online store from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the books retailer has a lot of uncertainties ahead of it. AP provides an overview of Borders’…

Sugar Publishing Acquires TV Shopper Starbrand Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 20 May 2008 08:40 PM PST

Sugar Inc, the NBCU-backed blog network, is acquiring Starbrand Media, a company that creates shopping tie-ins with TV shows. So if you’re into Gossip Girl for example, Starbrand offers a…

Product Recommender Richrelevence Raises $4.2 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Apr 2008 10:47 PM PST

Richrelevence, a provider of personalized recommendations for e-commerce firms, has raised a $4.2 million second round led by Greylock Partners and Tugboat Ventures. It previously raised an unspecified amount from…

Ebooks Catalog OverDrive Adds MP3 Audiobooks; Borders Signs On First - 3 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 18 Mar 2008 09:01 PM PST

Ebooks distributor OverDrive is expanding its online catalog to include MP3 audiobooks, the company told us. Publishers who are participating in OverDrive’s audiobooks program include Random House Audio, Blackstone Audiobooks,…

NBCU Picks Up 35 Percent Stake In DriverTV; Seeks Ad Dollars In Online Car Shopping - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 16 Mar 2008 07:02 PM PST

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) continues its niche investment strategy by picking up 35 percent of DriverTV for about $6 million ... WSJ reported NBCU’s investment and we’ve confirmed the amount.…

Who Will Grab Pricegrabber? - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 23 Feb 2008 12:00 PM PST

The comparison shopping engines sector is going through a lot of rethink after a period of M&A: Scripps (NYSE: SSP) is rethinking Shopzilla and uSwitch, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is rethinking…

Earnings: Limelight Networks Q4 Revs Up 31 Percent; Claims Gains On Social Media; Hurt By Strike? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 19 Feb 2008 02:05 PM PST

CDN Limelight Networks (NSDQ: LLNW) has reported Q4 revenues of $29.1 million, up 31 percent year-over-year from $22.1 million. Net loss expanded to $6.2 million ($.08 per share), from $4.9…

Visual Shopping Engine Like.com Raises $3.3 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 31 Jan 2008 06:00 PM PST

San Mateo-based Like, an image-based comparative shopping engine, has raised $3.3 million from existing backers Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Venture Partners, Bay Partners and Leapfrog Ventures. The company originally raised $19…

Earnings: Amazon Q4 Revs Up 42 Percent; Net Income More Than Doubles - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 30 Jan 2008 02:08 PM PST

In a good test of the health of the US consumer, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) reported Q407 revenue of $5.67 billion, up 42 percent year-on-year from $3.99 billion. Currency effects boosted…

Shopping Engine StyleFeeder Completes $2 Million First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 29 Jan 2008 07:37 PM PST

Online shopping recommender StyleFeeder has raised a $2 million first round funding from Highland Capital Partners and Schooner Capital. The amount includes the $1 million the company raised in October.…

Online Marketer Mercent Raises $6.5 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Jan 2008 11:22 AM PST

Mercent, a Seattle-based online marketing firm, has raised a $6.5 million second round led by TVC Capital, along with Madrona Venture Group and a Hillman Group affiliate. The company’s first…

Liberty Buys Majority in Body Building Site For More Than $100 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Jan 2008 11:14 PM PST

Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) is beefing up its online portfolio, in more ways than one: it is buying a majority stake in sports nutrition and fitness info site BodyBuilding.com, for…

Cooking.com Gets $7 Million Venture Loan To Build Community, Expand - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 02 Jan 2008 09:54 AM PST

Cooking.com, a food-focused e-commerce and content site, has taken $7 million in venture debt from ORIX Venture Finance. The Santa Monica-based company is primarily centered around selling cookware, but it…

Search/E-Commerce Firm Accoona Withdraws IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 21 Dec 2007 01:55 PM PST

The only surprise here is that it took so long to be official: Search/e-commerce firm Accoona has withdrawn its IPO plans, first announced in August. Care to take a stab…

Amazon Takes Stake in Payments Service Bill Me Later - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 12 Dec 2007 07:07 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says it will take an unspecified stake in online payments service Bill Me Later, and that it will offer the company’s transaction system to its customers. The…

@ UBS Media Week: Greg Maffei, CEO, Liberty Media; Interested in IAC Assets At The Right Price - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 03 Dec 2007 12:35 PM PST

Of all the companies present at the UBS Global Media Conference Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) was likely the only one that required a minute-long introduction to explain its capital structure.…

Yahoo ‘Moving Mountains’ To Make Sure Cyber Monday Woes Aren’t Repeated; No Explanations - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 27 Nov 2007 09:01 PM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) confirmed reports of major problems with its small business servers during the heart of so-called “Cyber Monday” via a Yodel Anecdotal mea culpa from Rich Riley,SVP-Online Channel…

Intuit Acquires Early DIY Web Builder Homestead For $170 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 26 Nov 2007 09:25 PM PST

Small business software provider Intuit is acquiring Homestead Technologies, a maker of tools that allow small businesses to set up a web presence, for $170 million. It’s mainly an e-commerce…

Updated: Yahoo Small Business Servers Struggle on ‘Cyber Monday’: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 26 Nov 2007 01:23 PM PST

The moniker “Cyber Monday” is something of a PR creation, but Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is looking at a PR problem today due to glitchy small business servers, which power third…

Amway-Funded Fanista Launches for Social Shopping Meets MLM - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sun 25 Nov 2007 08:10 PM PST

Amway, the granddaddy of the multi-level marketing (MLM) industry, is backing Fanista, an online DVD and CD retailer that relies on peer recommendations and social networking. According to the NYT,…

Data On Radiohead Experiment: 38 Percent Of Downloaders Choose To Pay - 21 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 05 Nov 2007 07:49 PM PST

The first concrete analysis of Radiohead’s innovative pay-what-you-like plan for latest album In Rainbows shows thirty-eight percent of those who downloaded the title indeed chose to pay something, while 62…

Earnings: Netflix Q3 Profits Climb 22.7 Percent; Revs Up 15 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 22 Oct 2007 01:41 PM PST

Despite the bitter competition with rival video rental service Blockbuster, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) doesn’t seem to have suffered much over the past year. The Los Gatos, CA-based company posted a…

Social Shopping Site Stylefeeder Raises $1 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sun 07 Oct 2007 02:06 PM PST

Boston-based social shopping site Stylefeeder has raised $1 million from Highland Capital Partners and Schooner Capital, reports VentureBeat. The company’s site also indicates that RSS Investors, the RSS-focused VC fund,…

eBay Buys German Auction Site Afterbuy.com - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 04 Oct 2007 05:28 AM PST

eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has acquired ViA-Online GmbH, the German auction management software developer that operates Afterbuy.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The addition of Afterbuy gives eBay the…