Randy Shoup, the architectural guru credited with scaling eBay, tweeted Monday evening that he has left the online auction giant to co-found a new consumer-focused e-commerce startup, Shopilly.com. He and another… Read more »
Last week, a handful of local e-commerce and interactive marketing announcements from Groupon, eBay, and others hinted at future accelerators for the already-hot social commerce space. For social commerce to really… Read more »
Who will set 2011’s standards in NewNet technologies like social media and real-time feeds? In terms of growing user adoption, revenues and technology innovation and influence, there are three types of… Read more »
Groupon is growing faster than virtually any other tech-related company in history, including Google and Facebook, and is expected to close the year with revenue of more than $500 million. What… Read more »
I’m seeing some innovative business models for social gaming today. TheIceBreak is holding back details, but it’s got a dating if not matchmaking element to it. Apps Genius will return 50%… Read more »
If you needed any more evidence to prove that social gaming is a huge category with lots of possibilities for web entrepreneurs, then how about this: Zynga, which makes some of… Read more »
eBay CEO John Donahoe says the company wants to make its PayPal unit the de facto payment system for Facebook games, Twitter money-sharing and every other kind of social game or… Read more »