MasterCard is on a roll with exciting announcements revealed at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Today, the company announced its findings from the third annual Mobile Payments Study. The study, developed with PRIME Research, tracked global social media posts across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Forums, Weibo...
Airbnb is halfway to raising another billion dollars in funding, and bringing its total valuation to $20 billion, TechCrunch reported. Word of the new round comes from sources that TechCrunch wouldn’t name, and details are scarce — some investors may be from Asia, and Fidelity...
Bitcoin users in China stuffed the cryptocash into virtual red envelopes to the tune of 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) over the Chinese New Year/Spring Festival holiday, Tech in Asia reported. According to the OKCoin Bitcoin exchange, most of those transactions were made through Tencent’s...
China’s Tencent launched a version of its WeChat mobile chat service in Africa late in 2013, and now the chat-app giant has used WeChat Africa to make its first investment in an African startup: the “micro-jobbing” platform M4JAM, according to Ventureburn. M4JAM (“Money for Jam”),...
Is Pinterest an $11 billion idea? Investors in Pinterest Inc. seem to think so and are doubling down on the image-bookmarking site to the tune of a $500 million funding round that is expected to bring the five-year-old firm’s valuation to around $11 billion, according...
Frantic shoppers roaming from store-to-store to find the last gallon of milk in the city before the next major storm hits may become a thing of the past. Record-breaking snowfall are keeping many in the Northeast from venturing out, but omnichannel merchants are keeping consumers...
Social marketplace app Shopa has closed an $11 million funding round — one of the biggest Series A rounds ever for a U.K.-based startup, according to TechCrunch. The fresh funding comes from Notion Capital and Octopus Investments, who both previously invested in Shopa’s $1.4 million...
While the world tries to determine whether social media celebrities count as real celebrities, there is little controversy around the idea that the social media famous have a big role to play in motivating the shopping behaviors of others. Everyone wants to be like the...
There is buzz that soon social networking site Pinterest will be offering users more than a chance to “pin” it – where it is defined as whatever item they are looking at a picture of. Reports are circulating that Pinterest could be adding a buy button...
