Back in March, Nokia invested $35 million into Obopay, a start-up that lets people transmit money to one another via text message, making it the single largest round of funding given to any such service this year. Apparently that move was designed to bolster Nokia’s own platform, as the mobile company announced a new mobile [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 28th, 2009 @ 10:00 am
Tagged with: funding, investing, investment, markets, mobile, mobile payments, mobility, Nokia, Nokia Money, retail, smartphones, start-up, US
Reports of Amazon’s acquisition of venture-backed online apparel and footwear retailer Zappos.com took over the business newswire this week, with speculation that invester Sequoia Capital forced Zappos to sell, that Zappos requested Amazon stock options instead of cash, and that Amazon is aiming for other buyouts including Netflix. Rumors aside, news of the merger has [...]
Filed under: Business, News on July 24th, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
Tagged with: Acquisitions, Amazon, brands, Business, conscious capitalism, innovation, innovative, Mergers, online, retail, Sequoia Capital, Zappos
Alice.com is an intriguing start-up that seeks to succeed in the online retail arena where so many businesses have failed before. The company endeavors to connect household brands with consumers and bypass retailers in the process. Their competition is not only brick and mortar giants like WalMart and Target, but well-established web presences like Amazon [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 10th, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
Tagged with: Alice.com, brands, innovation, online retail, retail, start-up
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.