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OCTOBER 27, 2020

At Nike, Buckley served as the vice president of digital commerce operations and new business models. At launch, there will be nearly fifty retailers on the site including shops like Buck Mason, Le Labo, Parachute Home, the Venice Beach boutique, Coutula 12th Tribe, Timbuk2, Zadig & Voltaire, Supervinyl and Urbanic. .

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of software to help manufacturers monitor their channel and e-commerce sites--and in particular, minimum-advertising-price (MAP) policies--has raised $2M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

The company's product is focused on what the company says is roughly 25% of e-commerce orders are returned which cannot be resold full--price. Arrive says it refurbishes, cleans, and grades those returns to be re-sold directly on branded, re-sale e-commerce sites. Arrive is led by CEO and Co-Founder Rachelle Snyder.

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JULY 19, 2012

Los Angeles investor Baroda Ventures , the venture capital arm of David Bohnett, has re-upped on online fashion and e-commerce site Fab.com , in a big, $105M third round of funding for that site. Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Bohnett is the founder of Geocities.com.

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JUNE 30, 2011

California's move yesterday to tax out-of-state, e-commerce retailers, will cause "immediate devastating loss of income" to web-based business in California, says a group focused on the affiliate marketing industry. Among firms which have cut off their affiliates as of last night is e-commerce giant Amazon.com.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based Loot Crate , which delivers monthly bundles of pop culture, gaming, and entertainment products to fans, launched a new fan commerce site, Loot Vault on Tuesday. The new site lets fans of the service snag some of the company's prior "crates", as well as special products.

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JUNE 9, 2011

ReachDeals is a relaunch of the deal commerce software platform it acquired when it acquired DealOn, a daily deals publisher, in February. ReachDeals sources deals from ReachLocal's sales team, and syndicates them to multiple online publishers. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 3, 2011

San Diego-based ShowUhow , the developer of video product guides for e-commerce sites, said today that it has named Anthony 'Tony' Wyatt as its EVP Sales and Marketing. Wyatt joins the firm from Indyme Solutions.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

How do you capture the interest of male users, and not only capture their eyeballs--but drive some e-commerce revenues? Tapiture's site centers around a visual tableau of different products, photos, videos, and more, which can be browsed, voted up and down, and which users can interact with.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com said that it has seen steep growth in its Halloween related sales this year, with more than 162 percent increases in orders over lsat year. The company said it is now offering up more than 40,000 costumes and accessories on its site, in a major expansion of its catalog this year. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

Craigslist and other listing sites leaves millions of buyers to find all kinds of goods and services. Like a virtual yard sale and a bulletin board combined, listing sites can connect everyone within a vicinity for a specific deal. It’s really aiming to go after the community-based e-commerce platform.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Marina Del Rey-based Cooking.com , the online e-commerce provider for cooking products, reported today that it has been chosen to rebuild and manage the web site for Marley Coffee. Marley Coffee is a coffee company run by Bob Marley's son. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The two said that Mogreet will power Steve Madden's efforts to reach consumers directly on their mobile devices, including information about news, sales promotions, exclusive content, and more. Steve Madden operates an e-commerce site focused on women's shoes and other fashion.

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JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. John Tomich: OneStop Internet is an e-commerce services company.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Los Angeles-based e-commerce retailer Newegg said this morning that it is expanding its lineup of products, and has expanded into textbook sales for high school and college students. The company said the move makes sense because it already has a base of students as customers, who are using the site for their technology needs.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The fashion and e-commerce site also said it had a "record number" of item sales in July. ShoeDazzle operates an online site--tied with celebrity Kim Kardashian--offering up women's shoes, handbags, jewelry, and apparel. The firm was founded by Brian Lee, Robert Shapiro, MJ Eng, and Kim Kardashian. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In what appears to be a major deal with online e-commerce site eBay , Los Angeles-based BeachMint , which is led by Diego Berdakin, appears to be powering a brand new site from eBay called FashionVault. Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the site to the press, outside of the email to users.

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JULY 11, 2018

Los Angeles-based electronics e-commerce site NewEgg said today that it is kicking off its annual, "FantasTech" sale on July 16th--a counter to the big Amazon Prime Day sale on the same day. According toNewegg, it will offer up a four-day sale on a wide range of the "latest and greatest" tech products.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

That's what Braden Richter , the CEO of Los Angeles-based LuxeYard (www.luxeyard.com) is looking to do with the new startup, which combines the world of home furnishings with the concept of flash sales. What has evolved over the past year or so, is I've been seeing that the e-commerce business is very strong.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Mov, launched just a few weeks ago, is more than a rebranded eBay or NBA auction site. With each sale, 70% of money raised goes toward a cause of the athlete’s choice. The product started as a video e-commerce platform, basically creating a video version of eBay. “We want to make it a really special experience for the fans.”.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via PayPal or credit card), including FrontPage in the Microsoft Office Suite, and DreamWeaver by Adobe. Personalize a simple web site.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Steelhouse , the behavioral targeting firm backed by Ron Conway and Geocities' founder David Bohnett, said Tuesday that Cooking.com has been using the firm's technology to ramp sales of its online site.

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APRIL 12, 2012

There are more than 10,000 people in Japan, and they're the third largest site behind Amazon and eBay, doing over 15 billion, with a 14 billon market cap in Japan. Neel Grover: We've been transforming the site and experience quite a bit. What kinds of changes have you been making? We've also hired a lot.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Los Angeles-based online coupon site Savings.com has made a major expansion today, into the grocery coupon and shopping market. According to the company, it has launched a new app called Favado , which provides grocery coupon information, sales information, and printable grocery coupons to consumers. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2012

Brand that have Facebook fan pages are seeing less than two percent visibility on any of the posts they put out, and it's widely known that Facebook commerce is not doing so hot, and Facebook ads are not doing so well either. Does this look like a Facebook page, or is this a separate site? The numbers tell the story. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Despite the economy, it appears that online sales this year surged on Cyber Monday, according to numbers released this morning by comScore. According to the firm, Cyber Monday online spending totaled $846 million, up 15 percent from last year, as consumers flocked to ecommerce sites for their holiday shopping.

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MARCH 4, 2010

The e-commerce retailer said it saw 146 percent, year-over-year sales growth from its marketplace, which lists products from third party retailers. Buy.com said 46 percent of its orders in Q4, and more than 50 percent of its Q1 2010 site orders came from the Buy.com Marketplace, and that the sales were behind its strong Q4 2009.

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

Holiday shopping on e-commerce sites declined by 3 percent, according to the latest numbers released by comScore, which tracking online spending and internet traffic. The results were the first decrease for holiday seasons since 2001, when comScore began gathering e-commerce statistics. billion, down 3 percent versus 2007.

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JULY 27, 2012

That's exactly what Retention Science (www.retentionscience.com), the latest firm out of the MuckerLab acceleartor, helps e-commerce companies do. Jerry Jao, the CEO of Retention Science, tells us how the firm is using big data to help e-commerce firms convert more customers. What is Retention Science?

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Online e-commerce giant Amazon.com just announced a new service this morning, which looks to be one of the biggest moves the company has made in digital music recently: it is now automatically providing MP3 format tracks for CDs sold on its site, including every single CD a user has purchased since 1998.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Little Black Bag , the women's merchandise and online commerce site that is a take on the Japanese concept of a "lucky bag sale", has raised $8M in a Series B round, just six months after its Series A funding.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

Los Angeles-based fashion sites JustFab and ShoeDazzle said Wednesday that the two are in a definitive agreement to merger bringing together two of LA''s most watched fashion and subscription e-commerce sites. According to the companies, the combined company expects to have over $400M in total sales in 2014.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based StackSocial , the startup out of the Amplify accelerator offering up a way for web publishers to integrate e-commerce into their sites, is looking to expand its offerings into the world of Android smartphones, the firm said over the weekend.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In what appears to be a major deal with online e-commerce site eBay , Los Angeles-based BeachMint , which is led by Diego Berdakin, appears to be powering a brand new site from eBay called FashionVault. Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the site to the press, outside of the email to users.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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