July 14, 2015
Google Bets Big On Cybersecurity with $100M Investment
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike announced the completion of a $100 million Series C funding round yesterday (July 13), led by Google Capital. Rackspace also participated in the round, along with existing...
July 14, 2015
Amazon Prime Day Spurs Retail Black Friday In July
Amazon’s Prime Day (July 15) has primed retailers to keep the competition fierce by creating their own July sales events. Walmart, for example, announced it will have an online sale...
July 09, 2015
Harry’s Flirts With Unicorn Status With $750M Valuation, $75M Funding...
Harry’s, a shaving subscription service a la Dollar Shave Club, has just capped a $75.6 million Series C round that brings its value to an impressive $750 million. The round,...
July 08, 2015
Sage Teams With Funding Circle To Streamline Funds For SMEs
Sage, a British software company, has teamed with Funding Circle and MarketInvoice to help provide funding access to more SMEs. In a news release about the deal, Sage said it...
July 06, 2015
Monitise Revises Revenue Projections Down … Again
Once known as one of Britain’s preeminent tech firms, Monitise has issued yet another revenue warning that estimates its full-year results for 2015 will be between £88M–£90M ($137M–$140M). In March,...
July 02, 2015
The Streaming Media Mind (And Money) Games
How much do you pay for streaming media? If you had to think about it, that’s probably good news for subscription-based services like Netflix. In the game of on-demand entertainment,...
July 01, 2015
How Distil Battles Bots Without Bothering Buyers
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]It happens to every Internet user at least once. The day she’s asked to type a simple combination of letters and numbers into a window to...
June 25, 2015
eCommerce Is Going To The Dogs
On a bad day, many parents have mentally wished Disney out of existence. There’s only so many times a reasonable adult can be forced to listen to the soundtrack from...
June 23, 2015
How eCommerce Shipping Has Been Disrupted
When the eCommerce boom hit, brick-and-mortar retail was disrupted. But the shipping and delivery business got a big boost. Two decades later, the tables have turned. Now eCommerce players and...
