The second Linux-related IPO of the week, Andover.Net, is a network of Web sites with content, community and e-commerce, targeted to the Linux and open source community.
Bombfell isn't the first subscription commerce startup targeting the male fashion market, and it won't be the last, but it combines an ease-of-use, affordability, and personalization that few others can match.
Todd Sotkeiwicz, the chief operating officer of Bigwords.com, an e-commerce retailer targeting the college market, is also careful.
In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart technical team.
It also works with online sites like Fab, Hulu, Zappos and others, but the bigger vision is about providing e-commerce-like targeting tools to the offline retailer.
According to a September report by mobile analytics firm QuestMobile, Mogu controlled an 8.1percentt penetration rate among e-commerce apps targeting women under 24 years old.
With today's launch of Dinda.com.br, the founding team behind Brazil-based Baby.com.br, is expanding into a new vertical following the success of its original, but more traditional, e-commerce offering targeting new parents.
Diapers.com, the Amazon-owned e-commerce site targeting parents with new babies, is today launching a native app on the iPad, after seeing its mobile traffic increase more than 100percentt year-over-year.
CardBlanc, a new e-commerce application targeting millennial spenders officially launched today, introducing a financial platform for easier mobile checkout combined with social activity similar to what you'd see on sites like Pinterest or Wanelo.
There's lucrative video ads, low-bandwidth slideshow ads for slow connections, commerce ads targeted to people who use groups to buy and sell, Event ads for promoters trying to sell tickets, and ads that encourage users to reach out to businesses over Messenger.
Identification and motivation of large scale e-commerce target audiences.
