Online brokerage sites like E-Trade and Ameritrade as well as Bloomberg terminals also have analytics and price information.
ProfitLogic was the leader in the world of retail analytics and price optimization solutions.
The Commodities & Commercial segment consists of business-to-business companies specializing in commercial and commodities markets that deliver their customers access to high-value information, data, analytic services and pricing benchmarks.
HubEdu: A young, San Diego-based startup that provides universities with a suite of analytics, tracking and price comparison tools to help them increase their revenue and make course materials (and higher education as a whole) more affordable for students.
Mobile Roadie is also bundling its Android and iPhone creation together – previously they were paid for separately – adding more analytics and consolidating its pricing tiers.
At a basic level the company will be charging subscriptions for access to its business intelligence and analytics around car pricing and the best place to sell a vehicle.
Through its smart pricing analytics, and algorithm-powered intellectual property, Sold "finds the buyer and the right price, and makes the selling worth your time," DeVincenzi said.
With the lines being blurred, retailers need to make the online experience ever more robust with better functionality, user-friendly interfaces, enhanced content, data collection and analytics, price modeling, and advanced customer communications.
These software packages, still known as "terminals" from when Bloomberg made the hardware, can be found on virtually all Wall Street trading desks, housing huge amounts of data and analytics, from price quotations for fixed-income and derivative products to complex risk analysis -- making Bloomberg a live-on-Wall-Street, die-on-Wall-Street enterprise.
Now, sources say that Yahoo has closed in on an acquisition that could potentially boost its role in mobile further: it is buying Flurry, the mobile app analytics and advertising startup, with a price that could be anywhere between $300 million and $1 billion.
Uber looked at drivers, cars and pricing and then created an end-to-end service delivery using mobile, social, cloud computing and analytics.
