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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 24 at 4:30 am PT
San Diego-based Zebit has raised $25 million in a fourth round of funding to grow its platform, which enables retailers to assess the risk of selling items to an individual consumer on credit. Mohr Davidow Ventures led the round, with Crosslink Capital, Leapfrog Ventures and QED Investors also participating. To date, Zebit says it has completed more than a million transactions.
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Emily Glazer, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on April 23 at 2:03 pm PT
The Avon Lady needs to spend more time on Facebook. Avon Products Inc., famous for sending its representatives door to door, is losing traction in the U.S., where many time-stressed consumers are increasingly buying their cosmetics on the Web.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 16 at 7:44 am PT
PCs still amount to about half of Dell’s business. But there’s another way to look at the company — from the point of view of its enterprise business.
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Lauren Goode in News on February 23 at 1:23 pm PT
For the first time, more U.S. TV buyers are looking to purchase LED TVs rather than cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) TVs, according to a
new report from IHS iSuppli. Consumers who planned to buy an LED-backlit TV jumped to 54 percent in the last quarter of the year, a 32 percent increase from the third quarter; the share of CCFL-backlit LCD TVs dropped to 25 percent from 56 percent. The report comes just a couple days after Samsung, the world’s largest LCD-panel maker, said it would
spin off its LCD business to focus more on higher-margin OLED screens.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6 at 7:00 am PT
PayPal’s VP of Mobile David Marcus makes the case for why its mobile payments strategy will prevail in a market surrounded by incumbents.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6 at 6:30 am PT
Check out the photos from a recent visit to PayPal’s San Jose headquarters, where
AllThingsD got an exclusive peek at the company’s brand-new “Shopping Showcase.”
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 31 at 9:00 am PT
Alice.com, an online marketplace for household goods ranging from diapers to dog food to toothpaste, has raised $3.6 million in funding. A bit like Amazon-owned Diapers.com, the Middleton, Wis.-based company allows big brands to use the platform to connect with consumers and offer coupons. The round, coming from a group of Spanish investors, closely follows Alice’s expansion to Europe through Alice.es. The company has raised $18.2 million to date.
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Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 17 at 2:33 pm PT
Google today rolled out a new effort designed to educate consumers on technology terms like “cookies” and “IP addresses” and explain a few things about privacy online.
Lauren Goode in Mobile on December 1, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
But will it save snacks from vending machine spiral purgatory?
