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Beautiful, sophisticated and creepy? Visualead rolls out new QR code...
Fresh off a $5-10 million investment from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Visualead, the Israeli startup that makes QR codes more beautiful, has unveiled what they call dotless visual codes — these...
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Inaaya is a fashion startup endorsed by Amal Alamuddin
For ten years Naushaba Brohi, founder of Pakistan-based fashion startup Inaaya, was an employee at a local television channel, producing shows centered on lifestyle and fashion. Describing the job as...
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How SAXA is changing the fashion industry
When Valeryana Allemand’s husband relocated to Ireland to work for Google, she found herself without a job and with spare time on her hands. So she enlisted the help of a developer friend and launched...
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Could Wallapop be Barcelona’s first billion dollar startup?
Do you Walla? If you live in Spain, it’s likely that you already have the secondhand marketplace app Wallapop installed on your phone. From their cheeky TV ads to their irresistible UI that just lets...
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South Korean e-commerce titan Coupang confirms $1B investment from Softbank
Almost exactly a year after raising $100 million from Sequoia Capital, South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang confirmed rumors on Wednesday with its announcement that it has raised $1 billion in funding...
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This Indian startup helps you become a designer and make money, for free
A fan of Modern Family would remember the T-shirts Jay Pritchett made for Claire, Haley, and Manny: Claire and Present Danger, Haley’s Comet, and Who Da Manny. Now who would forget the T-shirts Joey...
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Alibaba makes a Netflix-esque foray into subscription video
Alibaba will be launching its paid subscription service Tmall Box Office (TBO) in a mere two months, Reuters reported on Sunday. Liu Chunning, president of Alibaba’s Digital Entertainment Business,...
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Alibaba, Foxconn in talks to jointly invest $500M in Snapdeal
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Taiwanese electronics contract manufacturing company Foxconn Technology Group, are reportedly in talks to jointly invest about $500 million in Snapdeal, a deal that...
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O2O: Why China leads the ‘online to offline’ revolution
O2O was one of the main buzzwords talked about during the GMIC Beijing conference, the leading mobile event in China with 20,000 attendees and a platform for all the Chinese tech giants to announce...
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Alibaba just threw $1 billion into the battle for China’s O2O services
E-commerce titan Alibaba announced on Tuesday that it’s forming a $970 million joint venture company to focus on web-connected on-demand services, such as food delivery. Alibaba is forming this joint...
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Sizing up Navabi, the German startup tapping into plus-size fashion
Despite huge opportunities in the plus-size fashion market, this sector remains a largely underserved sector in the retail industry. Plus-size departments both online and offline are often neglected...
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ProSiebenSat.1 acquires German online price comparison business Verivox for...
Media giant ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired an 80 percent stake in Verivox, Germany’s largest independent consumer portal for energy, telco, insurance and finance products, to bolster its e-commerce...
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Konga’s bold attempt to revolutionize online payments in Nigeria
Nigeria boasts over 80 million mobile internet users doing all kinds of stuff online. Yet, as big as the Nigerian tech landscape is, getting customers to pay online is still a major obstacle for...
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Chinese ticketing site LY.com lands nearly $1B in funding
LY.com (formerly 17U.com or Tongcheng), one of China’s largest ticketing websites, has secured more than 6 billion RMB ($967 million USD) funding from a consortium led by Chinese real estate...
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This food-tech startup uses IoT to bring your inner chef alive
Ever thought of a food delivery service that can shop for all the fresh and exotic ingredients, chop and wash them, prepare secret sauces, and pack them all for you to the precise measure with simple...
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MySmartPrice bags $10 million in value-for-money India
MySmartPrice, a Hyderabad-based price discovery and comparison platform, announced on Tuesday that it raised $10 million in series B funding from Accel Partners and Helion Ventures. In December 2013,...
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Amazon Prime Day disappointment highlights Alibaba’s superiority
When I first heard about Amazon Prime Day, I thought: Finally Amazon is going to copy Alibaba’s Singles Day. Prime Day, which many Asian readers probably haven’t heard of, was billed as a massive sales...
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Israel’s Como acquires Keeprz customer loyalty platform for $50M
If you’re a retailer in the United States, particularly a small bricks-and-mortar shop, you’re probably running scared. Not only is e-commerce eating into your market share, but retail sales as a whole...
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Meet Fyndiq, the online bargain marketplace that has ‘outgrown eBay’ in Sweden
In 2009, Fredrik Norberg purchased some Vietnamese bamboo vases in the hopes of reselling them on his interior design webshop. As it turns out, no one was interested in buying these vases, despite...
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Zalando sales climb up to €738M in Q2, but profit takes a hit due to ‘an...
The Berlin-based company, which operates only in Europe today, grew revenues to 727-738 million euros in Q2 2015, up 33-35% compared to 546 million euros in sales in the second quarter of last year....
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