food

Snapfinger Lets You Peer Inside the Restaurant — From Your Living Room

Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 5, 2011 at 7:19 am PT

Ordering food online can be a crapshoot (although we don’t mean that literally).

Viral Video: Biz Stone Talks Turkey (And Will Be Partying With Them Too!)

Kara Swisher in Media on November 11, 2011 at 11:11 am PT

Happy Thanksgiving — this time for turkeys and not the people who want to eat them.

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OpenSky Raises $30 Million for Twitter-Inspired Shopping Site

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 24, 2011 at 5:59 am PT

OpenSky is e-commerce with a Twitter twist: Follow celebrities and experts to get recommendations on the latest food, fashion, design and style.

Lot18 Turns Wine Into Wine Country Excursions

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 18, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Lot18, which offers wines online for a discount, is expanding into travel deals that are packaged especially for lovers of the fermented grape.

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Dueling Acquisitions Heat Up the Food Delivery Market

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 26, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Seamless, a New York company focused on bringing delivery and takeout services to the Web, has acquired MenuPages for its database of 35,000 menus. Seamless, which made the acquisition from New York Media for an undisclosed amount, said the combined companies have 240 employees and are expected to book $400 million in orders this year. Last week, Seamless’s competitor, GrubHub of Chicago, raised $50 million and acquired Dotmenu and Allmenus. Terms were not disclosed. GrubHub projects that order revenues will total $225 million.

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Lot18 Uncorks Investment From Diapers.com Founders

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 24, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Lot18, which offers rare or discounted wine and food items online, has closed a partial round of funding from the founders of Diapers.com, which was acquired by Amazon through its purchase of Quidsi in November. Lot18, which has 400,000 members and 80 employees, will use the funding to support growth and to launch new verticals. The amount raised was less than $1 million; in total, it has now raised $13 million.

Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT

Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.

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BiteHunter Raises $250,000 to Seek Out Nearby Dining Deals

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 18, 2011 at 8:17 am PT

New York-based BiteHunter has raised $250,000 in seed funding to aggregate discounts for dining based on location. The investor was Eyal Chomski, head of ad agency Grey Global Group Israel. Visitors to the site can search by food category, location, special events, delivery availability and other parameters. The site has launched in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, but has plans to launch nationwide as well as to come out with a mobile application soon.

So Hot Right Now: Pictures and Ratings of Food

Liz Gannes in Social on December 23, 2010 at 1:38 pm PT

Even the greatest menu in the world has all-star items and dishes that are just blah. A bevy of dedicated apps and recently launched features for existing local apps now enable smartphone users to take pictures of memorable dishes and rate or comment on them. Here’s a sampler.

Federated Media Makes Another Buy: Foodbuzz

Kara Swisher in News on November 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

Federated Media Publishing, which recently bought a community platform aimed at parents, announced tonight that it was making another buy. This time, it is a food blog community site called Foodbuzz, as FM seeks to create large networks of niche content to better sell premium advertising. According to the site, it has exclusive deals to sell advertising for 4,400 independent food bloggers, making it a top food property.

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