| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.06.2012 | OpenSky is Pinterest For Shopping (But Wait, There’s More: Frictionless Sharing!) | Despite GroupOn’s stock price struggles this year, online commerce is a market ripe for disruption. OpenSky is a relatively new e-commerce site that is getting buzz and gaining traction, thanks in part to the presence of celebrities like To... |
| 07.12.2011 | Kaboodle Team Launches Poshmark; Raises $3.5M Funding Led By Mayfield | Poshmark, a US-based mobile fashion marketplace co-founded by entrepreneurs of Indian origin – Manish Chandra, Gautam Golwala and Chetan Pungaliya (they were also behind Kaboodle – has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding, led by early-s... |
| 06.12.2011 | Poshmark sees your closet as the next big e-commerce store, launches with $3.5M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Any good spring cleaner enjoys weeding out a load of clothes, shoes and bags that still have life in them, but are just taking up close... |
| 06.12.2011 | Poshmark sees your closet as the next big e-commerce store, launches with $3.5M | Any good spring cleaner enjoys weeding out a load of clothes, shoes and bags that still have life in them, but are just taking up closet space. Poshmark launched today with $3.5 million in funding to let anyone sell their old items.
Founder... |
| 26.07.2010 | Hearst's Kaboodle Gets Into Social Commerce With Flash Sales Site PopPicks | Social shopping site Kaboodle, which was acquired by Hearst Interactive Group in 2007 for $30 million or so, is trying its hand at social commerce with new community-driven flash sales site PopPicks.
PopPicks, which is members-only, partner... |
| 18.01.2010 | Hearst's Social Shopping Site Kaboodle Gets A Realtime Makeover | Social shopping site Kaboodle, which was acquired by Hearst Interactive Group in 2007 for $30 million or so, is re-launching its site to upgrade its product-discovery engine that allows online shoppers to discover, search for, browse, and i... |
| 04.12.2009 | Social Shopping: Putting the Emotion Back in E-Commerce | What are you going to buy this holiday season? Gift cards aren’t very personal, but friends’ recommendations can be.
Richard MacManus recently covered the trends in e-commerce over the past decade. He noted that Amazon and eBay have dominat... |
| 30.10.2009 | ReadWriteWeb’s List of Top 5 Baby Registries | It’s one day before Halloween and while other bloggers are writing about horror movies and costumes, I honestly can’t think of anything more scary than the thought of myself attempting to raise a baby. ReadWriteWeb’s own Sarah Perez is abou... |
| 05.06.2009 | Rajeev Motwani, Google founders’ professor and early investor, dies | Rajeev Motwani, the Stanford professor of computer science known best for advising Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, passed away today unexpectedly. Widely praised for his investing acumen — having backed both Google and PayPal ea... |
| 21.05.2009 | Boxedup acquired by affiliate company, now looks to ramp up | Social shopping startup Boxedup has been acquired by super-affiliate Venturian Media in an all share deal, terms were undisclosed. Venturian said it would now integrate its existing portfolio of product comparison and shopping sites into Bo... |
| 01.04.2009 | How Tough Is It Today Being a VC? 10 Questions for Two Early-Stage Stars | Pity the poor venture capitalist. Times were… well, so cushy. Money was flowing, deals were being done in record time, monetization was something one worried about later, and Silicon Valley was bursting at the seams. The sweet smell of weal... |
| 26.02.2009 | Mashery: APIs the Key to a Thriving Cloud | Editor’s note: this is a “Sponsor Post” by one of our long-term sponsors. These posts are clearly labeled as such, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts, and we encourage you to suppor... |
| 09.12.2008 | 10 Wish List Websites For The Holiday Shopping Season | It’s coming up to Christmas and for many of us that means buying presents for family. If you’re in this situation, “what to buy?” becomes the most pressing question in your Christmas shopping expeditions. But what if you could take a quick ... |
| 10.11.2008 | Veedow hopes bigger pictures will entice social shoppers | Social shopping start-up Veedow.com has re-jigged its visual interface to eschew specific product search in favour of eye candy and serendipity. The beta site, itself launched five months ago, now places the emphasis on larger images and us... |
| 17.09.2008 | Skimbit tries to make social shopping more useful | Social shopping services are a strange grab-bag of sites all trying to crack the nut of how to monetise social networking around shopping, which is most social when it is real-world, not virtual. In April Wishpot took $1 million Series A fo... |
| 17.09.2008 | Skimbit tries to crack the social shopping model | Social shopping services are a strange grab-bag of sites all trying to crack the nut of how to monetise social networking around shopping, which is most social when it is real-world, not virtual. In April Wishpot took $1 million Series A fo... |
| 26.07.2008 | Techcrunch August Capital Event Wrapup | Thank you to the nearly 1,100 people who flowed through the Quadras Conference Center for our Mobile Web Wars event and the party at August Capital immediately afterwards. We were able to donate $7,500 to Malaria No More, which will protect... |
| 25.07.2008 | Details For Tonight's 3rd Annual TechCrunch Meet-Up At August Capital | We look forward to seeing you tonight at the 3rd Annual August Capital Meet-Up (the pictures are from last year’s event). Details on the event are below. If you are attending, things kick off at 5:30, right after the Mobile Wars round table... |
| 30.04.2008 | Wishpot, a gift registry and shopping service, gets $1M | Based on the same general idea of saving your shopping history and favorite items that Kaboodle, ThisNext and others follow, Wishpot has added a level of purpose to its service by targeting the gift registry market.
Potential uses for Wishp... |
| 29.04.2008 | Wishpot Takes $1 Million Series A | Social shopping site Wishpot has taken $1 million Series A in a round led by Monster Venture Partner that included H-Farm and Adrian Hanauer.
Wishpot is a social shopping service that lets you collect and and share information about items y... |
| 01.04.2008 | Rasba Brings Social Shoppers and Retailers Together | Rasba, a new social shopping site founded by a 16-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur, recognizes that money and friends are powerful tools of persuasion.
The idea behind Rasba isn’t entirely new; others such as Kaboodle, ThisNext, StyleHi... |
| 01.02.2008 | Social shopping site ThisNext draws $5M | [update 2/5: The company said it will “in the next couple weeks” close an unspecified venture debt funding, Chief Executive Gordon Gould told VentureWire. ]
Social shopping has proven to be a popular concept lately, with a number of compani... |
| 05.10.2007 | StyleFeeder joins social shopping frenzy, raises cash | Very few people like to go shop for clothes by themselves. It’s a social experience: Always better with the input of friends.
So it is online. Until recently, online shoppers had to go solo, but lately, several sites have emerged to enable ... |
| 12.08.2007 | Glam to sign $1 billion ad deal — and draws critics | updated
In an era when Web advertising networks are red hot, Glam lays claim to being one of the hottest.
Focused on gathering up female-oriented Web sites, and then selling advertising on their pages, Glam says it is the fastest growing pr... |
| 10.08.2007 | Psychological salary… Social shopping sites… Bar-goers remember ads… Shoppers don’t just stick to online | Psychological salary
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Can’t afford to give your staff a pay rise? Boost their egos instead with a significant sounding title. A recent surv... |
| 08.08.2007 | Hearst buys Kaboodle, a social shopping site | Hearst Corp., the large media organization that owns the San Francisco Chronicle and sundry magazines, said it will acquire Kaboodle, a site that lets people bookmark items they find while surfing the Web, and then recommend and share them ... |
| 30.01.2007 | Mobio — the useful mobile service | Mobio, a Cupertino start-up, is distinguishing itself by creating simple, useful services for the mobile phone.
We wrote about the company when it released its movie service — which lists movie reviews, times and maps.
Today, Mobio kicks of... |
| 19.12.2006 | The Social Shopping Faceoff | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus
It’s no accident that Time magazine
choose YOU as their Person of the Year. In 2006, the Web was all about the social.
User generated content was king this year – and the Time editor in ... |
| 28.08.2006 | Shopcasting | I like this term – shopcasting.
It describes a way of social shopping that I think is going to start to take off on the web. I’ve been shopcasting since I started my blog with my "in heavy rotation" list of music you can buy on Am... |
| 04.08.2006 | Evernote raises $6 million to save all kinds of notes | EverNote, a Sunnyvale start-up that wants to let you save all aspects of your online and offline life, has raised $6 million from individuals, the company told us yesterday.
There’s increasing competition in this sector. So it wants to diff... |
| 26.07.2006 | Stylehive raises more than $2 million for stylish shopping site | StyleHive, the Tiburon start-up launched in April to provide another online bookmarking service, has raised $2.62 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
There is a lot of competition in this online bookmarking area, from Kaboodle to P... |
| 07.07.2006 | The locust swarm of bookmark sites: ActiveWeave, Blue Dot, Searchles…. | It is fun to bookmark pages, and neat to share that information occasionally with other users.
From the dozens of Silicon Valley and other start-ups feverishly developing new technologies to let you do this, you’d think it is the latest Int... |
| 09.06.2006 | eBay and Kaboodle To Launch MyCollectibles | On Monday eBay and Kaboodle will jointly announce a new service called “MyCollectibles”, which will be tightly integrated with the core offerings of both companies. The service is live and available at both ebay.com/mycollectibles and mycol... |
| 20.04.2006 | Stylehive is Looking Good | Stylehive is a social bookmarking site that is focused on shopping. I believe that there is promise in this space, which includes the just funded Kaboodle, as well as Wists and the upcoming Plum. Why? Because 80% of online shopping is “rese... |
| 17.04.2006 | Kaboodle gets lots of angel help | Updated
Here’s our Mercury News story (free registration) from the weekend about the increasing number of companies, including Kaboodle, Jeteye and Plum that let you save all the work you do while surfing on the Web — so that someone else c... |
| 16.02.2006 | Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Tomorrow | I’m pretty excited about the Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party tomorrow night starting at 7 pm.
We’ve been working hard for weeks to get the event together and, thanks to our sponsors, this should be the best one so far. A huge tent is u... |
| 08.02.2006 | Plum launches — to help you collect everything in one place | Plum, of San Francisco, is a start-up that launched yesterday at DEMO. It wants to let you easily collect all URLs, emails, photos, documents, on a particular topic and save them as an easy-to-access collection — and then let you share it a... |
| 07.02.2006 | A Taste of DEMO 2006 | DEMO 2006: 70 companies gather at a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona to compete head on for our attention. $15,000 buys you 5 minutes in front of 700 people, and a chance to make history (which is not recorded real time because the wifi is crushed... |
| 18.01.2006 | Naked Conversations Party at TechCrunch | UPDATE: This event is now full. I apologize to everyone who did not get on the wiki list.
The fifth TechCrunch Meetup is on Friday, February 17, 2006 at the TechCrunch house in Atherton, California. We will celebrate the launch of Naked Con... |
| 25.10.2005 | Kaboodle Launch: Bookmarking + Wiki | Company: Kaboodle
Launched: October 26, 2005
Status: $1.5 m in angel funding
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Kaboodle opened its doors this afternoon for an official launch on Wednesday.
I met with Manish Chandra, the CEO, earlier today for a wal... |
