Xconomy

MARCH 4, 2019

One size fits most (at best), and a women’s sizing system created during the Depression doesn’t gibe in an e-commerce business that prizes personalization. People want to buy a size,” says Patrick Donnelly, director of marketing at Fit3D, a San Mateo, CA-based maker of e-commerce software.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Austin —It stands to reason that if any industry could resist the tidal wave of e-commerce, it would be the fragrance business. After all, how can you smell a perfume or cologne online to decide if you like the scent?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Guengerich moved to North Texas in 2017 after years in the Austin tech community, where he co-founded Appconomy, a China-focused e-commerce startup, among other initiatives. Here’s an edited transcript. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2018

Zola is an “e-commerce business disguised as a wedding company,” said Shan-lyn Ma, the startup’s founder and CEO, in an e-mail. “We Most wedding registries are focused on the lead-up to the day of the ceremony.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Walmart is taking the e-commerce delivery business south of the border. The Bentonville, AR, retailer announced Thursday it has acquired Cornershop, an on-demand online service that delivers products from supermarkets, pharmacies, and specialty shops in Mexico and Chile, for $225 million. “We

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That would make Amazon’s purchase of Ring the third largest in the Seattle e-commerce giant’s history. The purchase was first reported by Geekwire, which cited a separate report from Reuters that the deal is valued at about $1 billion. The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.)

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2019

The New York-based startup said Tuesday that the new funding round, which is being led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing group, brings its total investment to $35 million. Billie, a monthly subscription service for shaving and body care products for women, has raised $25 million.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2018

Athena Club, a subscription program for feminine hygiene products, is the latest entrant into the direct-to-women e-commerce space and announced today that it has raised $3.6 million in funding.

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Xconomy

APRIL 27, 2018

In the House of Representatives, an Energy and Commerce subcommittee advanced dozens of opioid crisis bills to the full committee. This week, members of Congress exercised a bipartisan effort in both chambers to advance dozens of measures proposing various approaches to fighting the opioid epidemic. Others aim to.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2016

On my blog post announcing my move to London, I wrote : “[London went] from nowhere four or five years ago to surpassing many US cities and likely to become second only to Silicon Valley in the next five years.”. 4) Trade and Commerce: The U.K. 4) Trade and Commerce: The U.K. until they launch in the U.S., and China.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2018

But it’s an investment, and you can’t. The company is building a two-sided marketplace, with owners of haute garments and accessories on one end, and people who want to rent them on the other. You may have bought it for a special occasion or it doesn’t fit you properly anymore,” says Merri Smith, Tulerie’s co-founder and COO.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

million in a Series D investment round led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek. Poshmark , a social media e-retail company, has raised $87.5 That brings the total funding raised by the Redwood City, CA-based company to $160 million.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2019

Austin —The grocery store shelf has yet to be plugged into the increasingly digital food supply chain. Instead, inventory is typically tallied by employees by hand in a slow and laborious process.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Style trends may come and go but the apparel industry is increasingly accepting that sustainability will always be in fashion. “We We have the chance to shift the environment to a cleaner, more non-toxic place,” says Greg Altman, co-founder and CEO of Silk, a Boston-area maker of a proprietary liquid silk. That’s really our goal.”

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

Full Harvest, an online market for imperfect produce that previously would have been thrown out, announced it has raised $8.5 million in a Series A round of funding.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2018

There are few things more universal in wardrobes the world over than blue jeans. But they are also the number one item that is returned by online shoppers, says Rian Buckley, founder and CEO of Fitcode. Fit is the number one purchase driver and reason to return,” she says.

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I like to boil down the overwhelming majority of what we do on the web to just three primary activities, which I call the three C’s: Content, Commerce & Communications. It was always more likely that auto industry commerce prowess would come from LA or Detroit. We have invested $17.3 All great communication companies.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2018

Inventory management is crucial to operating a successful retail operation. And as hard as it may be to believe, retailers “don’t really know what’s on the shelves,” says Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CTO of Bossa Nova Robotics.

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Xconomy

JULY 11, 2018

Mark Cummins wondered why online search engines could help you locate a landmark halfway around the world in a second but couldn’t tell him whether the corner store had a craft beer he liked.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2018

These days, it’s not just Snow White’s stepmother who has a mirror that talks back. Thanks to augmented reality, Internet of Things, and data analytics technologies, more of us might be confronted with so-called “smart mirrors” the next time we try on clothes or accessories in a store.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 6, 2018

As much as 40 percent of food in this country is never eaten, yet 41 million people don’t have enough to eat, including 13 million children, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Stantt wants to make standard sizing anything but. Traditional sizing only fits 15 percent of guys,” says Matt Hornbuckle, the startup’s founder and co-CEO. Twins come in and get different sizes.” To connect guys with a shirt that fits well, the men’s wear startup created a database of “tens of thousands” of body scans.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2018

Applying sunscreen while outdoors is a long accepted way to help keep our skin safe from sunburn and cancer. Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says less than a third of women, and even fewer men , report using it when going outside for more than an hour.

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