Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 12 at 5:00 am PT
First, Amazon Prime offered free two-day shipping for $79. Then it started offering add-on services for no additional cost, like streaming videos and Kindle books. What’s next?
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on March 8 at 10:59 am PT
Songkick, the four-year-old concert notification start-up, has raised a $10 million round led by Sequoia Capital. Earlier investors such as Index Ventures also re-upped. Songkick makes money via lead generation, taking fees of up to 10 percent from concert promoters like Ticketmaster. The
New York Times has a nice interview with CEO Ian Hogarth.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 18 at 8:38 pm PT
While many Facebook Open Graph partners are just porting more data into the social graph, some companies like Fab.com and Ticketmaster got a little more creative.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 13, 2011 at 10:36 am PT
Using a credit card is not much harder than using a payment-enabled phone. If you don’t get that, maybe it’s because you are getting too old (sorry if I’m the one breaking it to you).
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 22, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
SeatGeek, a two-year-old New York-based start-up that aspires to be the Kayak of sports and concert tickets, has signed a multiyear partnership with Yahoo Sports to drive traffic to its site.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 3, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Seattle-based Lockerz, an e-commerce company trying to build a rewards-based program for teens, is close to securing a third round of capital totaling $45 million.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 1, 2011 at 11:13 am PT
Groupon is announcing a partnership with Expedia at the D Conference today that will create a new discount travel service that will offer people trips at half the cost.
John Paczkowski in News on May 18, 2011 at 10:48 am PT
Good news for anyone sick of Ticketmaster “convenience” fees. Online ticketing start-up Eventbrite has raised $50 million in a new round of funding led by Tiger Global Management.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 9, 2011 at 10:10 am PT
Groupon users will soon have access to limited-time deals on a variety of concerts, sports, theater productions and other live events across North America through a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment–in other words, with the top dog of them all: Ticketmaster.com.
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Peter Kafka in Media on April 19, 2011 at 8:09 am PT
TicketFly, the live event start-up that wants to take a piece of the market dominated by LiveNation’s Ticketmaster, has raised $12 million in a round led by Mohr Davidow Ventures. The company,
which had previously raised $3 million, helps small venues run their own ticketing operations on the Web, and plays up its Facebook and Twitter hooks.
