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Groupon just sold its restaurant software business to a startup

Upserve buys Breadcrumb.

Square Cash still isn't a business

The money-transfer service is likely still a money-loser.

Square misses Q1 expectations, swinging to a wider loss

Mixed results.

Supposed bitcoin founder says 'goodbye' after presenting fake evidence

Craig Steven Wright's claim was met with intense skepticism.

Gilt Groupe's CEO is becoming a venture capital investor

Michelle Peluso will focus on consumer companies at TCV.

This startup is racing to build the Amazon for alcohol before Amazon does

Drizly is adding next-day delivery to its on-demand service.

Pinterest confirms 'acqhire' of mobile advertising startup URX

About half of URX's 30-person staff is joining in the deal.

More than 21,000 small businesses can add same-day delivery through Postmates

Shopify, meet Postmates.

Uber enables global e-hailing through Alipay to fend against Lyft/Didi alliance

Now Chinese riders can use Alipay to hail and pay for an Uber all over the world.

Amazon finally brings its one-hour Prime Now delivery service to the web

No app? No problem.

Amazon didn't get the NFL deal, but it's getting more serious about sports

Amazon hires James DeLorenzo to head up its newly created sports group.

Oculus will sell its virtual reality headset in Best Buy stores beginning this week

It's the first time the Rift has been available for in-store purchase.

Craig Wright claims he is the enigmatic Bitcoin inventor

As suspected

Amazon looks unstoppable. Here are five things that could slow it down.

Two potential obstacles: Prime hitting a wall, and failure in India.

Airbnb just spent over $200,000 on San Francisco politics

Proposition F was hardly the end.

The FTC is investigating Venmo over 'deceptive or unfair practices'

PayPal, which owns the popular peer-to-peer payments service, says it is cooperating.

Amazon was profitable for four quarters in a row

Not just grow at all costs.

Amazon absolutely crushes earnings expectations in first quarter

Kaboom.

Venmo is growing ridiculously fast

But can the money-transfer service make money for PayPal?

Online lender Affirm acquires Sweep in a play for financial planning services

Sweep had raised around $1 million in seed funding.

Amazon is liable for billing you for your kid's wild in-app purchases, a judge says

The FTC previously settled with Apple and Google over similar charges.

It feels like every tech company is offering cash advances. Shopify is the latest.

Shopify follows PayPal and Square into the alternative lending space.

Programmatic TV 101: The multi-billion-dollar ad tech that's transforming television

In the very near future, we will no longer even think of there being a difference between television and digital video.

Apple is about to post its first quarterly revenue decline since 2003

The culprit: Shrinking iPhone sales.

Three things to learn at Code/Commerce

You, me, Kara Swisher's sunglasses. And Vegas, baby.

Amazon is shutting down its Gilt Groupe competitor MyHabit

Another unhappy ending for a flash-sale shopping site.

Second-hand designer fashion site The RealReal gets a $40 million investment

The startup said it would use the money to expand overseas.

Why your Amazon delivery sometimes comes in a Walmart box

And why some Amazon customers are pissed.

Airbnb's hipster city guides are a content-commerce play that might actually work

Look out, Lonely Planet.

CVS invests in Curbside, a startup that lets you buy online, pick up at store

The two companies are working together at 350 CVS locations.

On-demand chef service Kitchensurfing shuts down

The startup had raised nearly $20 million in venture capital.

The same guy who built the Amazon Echo just built the $700 magic juicer

Malachy Moynihan's interests in farming and Internet-connected devices led him to the startup Juicero.