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Meet Stitch Fix, the Personal Shopping Service That Mixes Data With a Human Touch

Liz Gannes in Commerce on May 21 at 6:00 am PT

Silk blouse in your size and a statement necklace, coming right up.

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo: We’re Playing a Long-Term Game

Liz Gannes in News on May 20 at 11:03 am PT

“I have a view that if you build something that’s good, and you keep making it better, it lasts,” says D’Angelo.

Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures

Liz Gannes in Social on May 19 at 9:31 pm PT

Pinterest brings information from the rest of the Web deeper into its site, like any good emerging social platform.

Asana Would Like to Help Larger Companies Collaborate, Too

Liz Gannes in News on May 1 at 8:00 am PT

Today, Asana is used by lots of tech companies — Airbnb, Uber, Foursquare, Pinterest — as well as teams in industries like healthcare and real estate.

Asana Organizations - laptop & mobile images

Meet Deena Varshavskaya, CEO of Social Shopping Sensation Wanelo

Liz Gannes in Commerce on April 30 at 5:00 am PT

Two things you need to know about Wanelo: Everything is for sale, and we better be having fun.

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Pict Launches Pretty Tools for Brands to Create “Shoppable Photos”

Liz Gannes in Commerce on April 25 at 7:30 am PT

Pict today launches a set of free (for the moment) Web and mobile tools for brands to publish photos that include product information and sharing links to Pinterest and elsewhere. So, instead of a flat photo, this is a sort of embeddable rich media object (on Facebook, it looks like a video, where users click to play). Pict is backed by Lowercase Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Opus Capital, Angelpad, 500 Startups and others.

Aardvark Founder’s Social Shopping Site Luvocracy Creates Market Around Recommendations

Liz Gannes in Commerce on April 5 at 7:00 am PT

Nathan Stoll’s grandmother was an Avon lady. Now he wants to reimagine that role for the social media age.

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Pinterest Adds Free Analytics Tools

Liz Gannes in News on March 11 at 11:51 pm PT

Pinterest on Tuesday is launching a set of online analytics tools for verified website owners to see graphs and visual grids of what content from their sites is being pinned and repinned, who’s pinning it, and what’s getting clicked on. The goal of the free product is to encourage high-quality content on Pinterest, the company told AllThingsD.

Zendesk Hacker Accesses Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest Data

Liz Gannes in Social on February 21 at 9:25 pm PT

No passwords were involved, said the companies, who are alerting their users tonight.

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Hey, What Has Pinterest Been Up to Lately? It’s Now Testing a Redesign.

Liz Gannes in News on January 28 at 3:18 pm PT

Pinterest, which seems to have spent an awful lot of the last year dealing with growth, is turning its sights to improving its site. The company posted a preview of a redesign today that includes things like increased visibility for related pins, and invited users to sign up to try it out.