Happycar, a European car rental comparison site with its sights set on worldwide expansion, raised $1.58 million in its latest funding round, TechCrunch reported late last week. One of the most notable backers includes Global Founders Capital, the venture arm of German eCommerce giant Rocket...
Amazon might still be a baby in the grand scheme of Indian eCommerce markets, but it’s giving well-established local companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal a run for their money with its special offers for Diwali, the widely celebrated Indian festival of lights. The Seattle, Washington-based company, which...
The consumer banking unit of Citigroup Inc. has said it will launch a unit to be known as Citi FinTech, geared toward what the company termed a “radically simple, connected mobile banking solution,” Reuters reported Friday (Oct. 16). The newswire said that Heather Cox would...
Late last week, Bloomberg reported Russian hackers had targeted the servers of media company Dow Jones in order to steal stock trading information. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating...
Restaurant discovery platform Zomato, which serves 22 countries around the world and has a $1 billion+ valuation, is restructuring its business with a 10 percent staff layoff and change in data collection methods. The layoff will cut 300 of its 3,000 employees — many of which...
Almost a month after Apple celebrated its latest mobile operating system update achieving the fastest adoption rate ever, with iOS 9 being downloaded on more than 50 percent of Apple mobile devices, it looks like that quick adoption has come to a halt. Data from...
With the banking trends moving more and more toward mobile, there’s often less attention given toward the personal touch that consumers used to experience. The days of catching an actual human to speak with are few and far between, and even finding the number to chat...
Amazon is requiring its Prime Fresh grocery delivery service members to pay a $299 annual membership to use the service in Seattle and elsewhere, which GeekWire has said is “upping the ante” and pushing some frequent users to say they’ll look to use Amazon competitors...
ECommerce is quickly adopting the maxim to sell everywhere and anywhere, and one app is ready to help brick-and-mortar retailers reach customers to make sure even the busiest get what they want. GeekWire reported that FlyBuy, a Seattle-based startup founded in 2014 that specializes in...
