Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 12 at 8:54 am PT
Bonobos, the New York-based online clothing brand, says it has closed $16.4 million in new funding from Nordstrom and that it will start selling its pants at the high-end department store.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 28 at 11:18 am PT
After a test phase, online payments giant PayPal is rolling out its “offline” in-store payments system across the U.S.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 3 at 6:00 am PT
Walmart is typically associated with its everyday low prices, not with technology. But the mega-retailer is trying to change that by building a tech center just south of San Francisco.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 7, 2011 at 11:15 am PT
People seem to separate their online professional identities from their personal identities more than they used to, now that the tools are available. Web users increasingly use LinkedIn to sign in to business-oriented sites, according to the social toolmaker Gigya.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 24, 2010 at 9:22 am PT
After two days of struggling with an embarrassing pre-holiday system failure, Skype appears to be running again today. The company is offering free service to customers, but hasn’t yet explained what happened.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 21, 2010 at 7:17 pm PT
EBay has launched an offshoot of its main site called
GiftsNearby, which helps holiday shoppers pick up last-minute presents based on local inventory. In particular, a special relationship was formed with Best Buy that lets users pay for products online and then pick them up at the store. For eBay, it extends the shopping season beyond limitations of the post office. The service leverages information from Milo.com,
a company eBay acquired earlier this month.
John Paczkowski in News on December 14, 2010 at 2:32 pm PT
Autorite de la Concurrence, France’s antitrust watchdog, spent the better part of the past year studying competition in the French Internet search advertising market and you’ll never guess who it determined to be the dominant player.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 1, 2010 at 7:49 am PT
Another paid option for mobile music: Thumbplay, which offers an all-you-can-eat subscription service that already works on BlackBerry and Android handsets, shows up at iTunes, too.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 17, 2010 at 4:52 am PT
More fuel for the “everybody’s watching TV and the Web at the same time” meme: Data from Nielsen showing that lots of people are watching TV and the Web at the same time, at least during big live events.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 21, 2010 at 1:46 pm PT
Eric Schmidt’s tender feelings for Apple won’t stop Google from competing directly with Apple’s iPhone: The company spent much of the time on its Q4 earnings call discussing its large mobile ambitions–without talking about specifics, of course. Meanwhile, the search giant posted a big jump in quarterly revenue. But not enough for twitchy investors, who are pushing shares down in after-hours trading.
