Boostable Gets $3.2M, Its Ads Get More Sales For Your Event, Crowdfund, Or Online Store

(Source: TechCrunch) Boostable doesn’t have to sell its ads. Marketplaces sell them for it. Ticket, crowdfunding, and ecommerce marketplaces make money when their users sell …

Sydney Software Firm Bigcommerce Teams Up With Alibaba To Beat Amazon

(Source: International Business Times) public offering (IPO) that raised a record $25 billion fresh capital, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) has partnered with an Australian software …

SoftBank leads $100 million investment in Indonesian ecommerce firm Tokopedia — Reuters

(Source: Thomson Reuters) SoftBank Corp announced Wednesday it will lead a $100 million investment round in Indonesian ecommercegiant PT Tokopedia, the …

In India’s e-commerce market dominated by Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, no discounting others

(Source:Financial Express) The big three of e-commerce — Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal — may be hogging the headlines with their jaw-dropping discounts this Diwali but a slew of …

How Microsoft is taking on the cross-platform challenge with Office

(Source: ZDnet) This time around, the Office team is designing mini platform abstraction layers (PALs) and trying to make smart choices about how and how much UX code to .