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Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining

Kara Swisher in Commerce on April 30 at 12:40 pm PT

Will a shake-up of the board of the daily deals company help its prospects?

PayPal Wants You to Shop While Straphanging In Singapore

Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 9 at 7:06 am PT

PayPal and others are looking to make mobile payments even more mobile.

Attention Shoppers: Coupons.com Grabs $30M in Funding From Greylock

Kara Swisher in Commerce on October 3, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

VCs search for a bargain in longtime digital promotions site.

Android Market to Finally Get In-App Payments, Improved Discovery. When? "Soon."

Liz Gannes in Social on January 25, 2011 at 5:46 pm PT

Android will release an in-app payment system “soon,” said Eric Chu, group manager for Android platform at Google, speaking at Inside Social Apps in San Francisco today.

Facebook Testing Social Commerce Feature "Buy With Friends"

Liz Gannes in Social on January 25, 2011 at 2:35 pm PT

Facebook is testing a new feature called Buy With Friends to give users social incentives to increase their purchases of virtual goods from games on its platform, according to the company’s product marketing manager for commerce, Deb Liu.

Kabam Raises Serious Dough to Develop Serious Games for Social

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 20, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Social games developer Kabam has raised a hefty round of funding to develop games for Facebook that appeal to a more traditional gaming demographic–and probably not your mother.

Help! I'm Addicted to CityVille

Liz Gannes in Social on December 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Among the early adopter types I know in the tech industry, there’s a sense that casual gaming on Facebook serves an entirely different demographic from their own. The thinking is that games from Zynga and the like replace relatively mindless activities like soap opera watching. But as someone who has just reorganized her virtual retail shops to be surrounded by virtual trees so as to accumulate more virtual bonus points, I see how social gaming–especially as it gets more social–might appeal to the desire for mindless diversions in all of us.

Zynga Drops the Beat With Dr. Dre in Mafia Wars

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 17, 2010 at 1:52 pm PT

Zynga has formed a partnership with rapper Dr. Dre, who is using the social gaming phenomenon to promote his first album in more than a decade.

TrialPay Brings Advertising to the Online Checkout Line

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 15, 2010 at 5:55 am PT

Here’s a company that is bringing the concept of enticing shoppers with the latest tabloid magazine, a pack of gum or a Snickers bar from the line at the grocery store to the online checkout world.

Cyber Spending Hits $16.8 Billion for the Holidays (So Far)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 5, 2010 at 4:10 pm PT

In the first 33 days of the holiday season, e-commerce spending has already jumped to $16.8 billion, increasing 12 percent over the same period last year. ComScore said in the past week alone, four days exceeded $800 million in spending, including Cyber Monday, which became the heaviest online spending day on record at $1.028 billion.