242 Million E-Commerce Shoppers - Spending $40,000 per Second in China
Some staggering e-commerce statistics comming from China and published by We Are Social. China has been the world’s largest online market for some time now, but its growth shows no sign of losing...
View ArticlePersonal Finance Startup Resurfaces as Daily Deals Provider
A trend has been developing over the past two years or so, that banks and other financial services providers are racing to provide card-linked offers that deliver relevant merchant offers to consumers....
View ArticleLazada - the Amazon clone in Asia raises $20 million
Lazada, the Asian Amazon clone operating in five countries across Southeast Asia, has announced that it has raised ‘an eight digit Euro investment’ from Tengelmann, a German retail group. The...
View ArticleWanelo: Making serious inroads with younger shoppers
Fashion browsers, Pinterest and Lookbook.nu, a street photography site, are certainly brilliant at displaying dreamy and expensive-looking pictures of fashion or goods you might want to buy. But more...
View ArticleOnline retailers with record traffic in December
We already pretty much know that online traffic to US retail sites exploded during Thanksgiving 2012, but now data is coming in to show that holiday numbers were also phenomenal. In fact, the retail...
View ArticleMyTime - A variation of the Daily Deals Model
MyTime, a variation of the tradition daily deal model launched in Los Angeles this week. The service ia a convenient way find, book and pay for services like car repair, autodetailing, hair styling,...
View ArticleOlAround from Pakistan offers location based deals and Loyalty rewards
Daily deal sites aren't hard to come by these days anywhere in the world, but what differentiates Olaround is that it’s based in a part of the world not well known for its startup scene. Olaround is...
View ArticleFollowing Groupon - Square now offers POS hardware package
Four months ago Groupon released its point-of-sale system Breadcrumb and now Square is beefing up its own POS system. The company announced today that it’s releasing its new "Business in a Box,” a...
View ArticleWayfair - the Furniture Retailer - Launches Daily Deal Site
Today the online furniture retailer Wayfair launched their new daily deal site under the title Daily Fair. Although not well known, Wayfair is one of the biggest online furniture retailers in the US...
View ArticleRetailMeNot Buys Leading Dutch Online Coupon Publisher Actiepagina.nl
Online coupon supplier RetailMeNot Inc. has bought Actiepagina, a publisher of online coupons in the Netherlands. Sources estimated the purchase price at nearly $10 million. Should the daily deal sites...
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