Everybody’s a Curator: Flipboard’s Mike McCue Talks About New Version of Social Magazine (Video)

I made a magazine about Pop-Tarts. Anyone have a problem with that?
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Google’s Head of Shopping Says Company Has No Plans to Become a Retailer

It may be giving off those vibes, but that’s not what Google is trying to do at all, said Google’s head of Shopping, Sameer Samat.
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Ready for His Close-Up: Ross Levinsohn to Join Zefr Board

The former Yahoo exec joins the Venice, Calif.-based video start-up, which is about to celebrate one billion monthly views.
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Pickie Raises $1 Million as App Catalog Trend Kicks Into High Gear

The New York-based company is part of a recent trend to make shopping on the iPad easier and more fun than sifting through an offline catalog.
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Didn’t Think It Was Possible? Amazon’s Catalog Just Increased by Thousands of Items.

Bulky? Heavy? Inexpensive? No problem. Amazon has added thousands of items it previously considered too uneconomical to ship.
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Forget About Black Friday and Cyber Monday — Catalog Spree Is Ready for Sofa Sunday

Padopolis, the company behind the Catalog Spree iPad app, which aggregates more than 100 catalogs, has raised $6.1 million in capital ahead of some of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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Wal-Mart’s New Apps Will Integrate Coupons and Voice Recognition

Wal-Mart is launching its first iPad app ever and is refreshing its iPhone app, providing a glimpse of what mobile commerce will be like for the mass market.
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Upcoming Zappos iPad App Mimics a Fashion Magazine

The new black this fall: Retailers will produce content alongside their products, like an online version of a glossy fashion magazine.
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TheFind Looks to Define E-Commerce on the Tablet

TheFind, a six-year old online shopping comparison site, is looking to define e-commerce on tablets.

Padopolis Wants to Move the Billion-Dollar Retail Catalog Business to the iPad

Instead of clogging up your mail and piling up uncontrollably on your coffee table, Padopolis wants to deliver the same content you’d find in a catalog in electronic form–starting with an iPad application. Catalog Spree, which launched yesterday on the iPad, aggregates a number of catalogs in one place, similarly to a mall, where consumers can go to one place and find multiple stores.

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