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Pinterest announced "Pinterest Shop," a catalogue of products users can instantly buy through buyable pins. Users can now buy millions of hand-picked products and finalize a transaction without leaving the platform. Pinterest remains a private company, but was valued at $11 billion in March....

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) on Monday announced plans to move into the e-commerce space with ad features that will allow users to buy things directly on the site. The decision has been praised by shareholders, who see the new features attracting more advertisers to the site. However,...

Pew Research just released its annual Mobile Messaging and Social Media report, and the results show that Pinterest and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)’s Instagram are the big winners when it comes to growth. According to the survey, usage rates among rivals Facebook, LinkedIn Corp (NASDAQ: LNKD...

As most investors know, startups are relatively new businesses, usually on the search for a scalable model. Most commonly, these companies have less than 50 employees, and are valued at less than $1 billion. However, a few of them are worth considerably more. The Wall Street Journal lists...

Things initially looked up for Fitbit Inc (NYSE: FIT), which had its initial public offering earlier this month. The stock soared, rising 52 percent in its debut. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry wasn't impressed. In a note to investors, he warned them to "take profits on FIT, as it...

Benzinga recently had the chance to speak with Darren Waxman, CEO and co-founder of Joinem about the rapidly-expanding and ever-evolving world of e-commerce. Mr. Waxman discussed Joinem’s role in the convergence of e-commerce and social media, ways in which the biggest social media...

Shopify Inc (NYSE: SHOP) is expanding a test for its merchants of a so-called "buy button" feature on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), even as it prepares to go whole hog with a similar plan through Pinterest. Shopify closed Wednesday at $28.10, off $0.24, but up more than 9 percent since a May 20...

Initial Public Offerings used to represent a unique risk-reward scenario for investors looking to get in on a company's high growth potential once it made its way to major markets. However, nowadays companies are remaining private longer in hopes of avoiding the potential pitfalls of being in the...

In an effort to ramp up its revenue, social scrapbooking site Pinterest is introducing a new buyable pin. On Tuesday, the company announced that certain images on the site will include a price tag image which indicates that a user can buy that product directly through Pinterest. A Good Move...

This year is set to be a big one for the social sharing website Pinterest as advertisers look to the company’s growing user base for targeted marketing. This year, Pinterest is expected to roll out new marketing techniques that could give internet giants like Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) a...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) isn’t the only entity involved in social media research. The Guardian revealed Tuesday that the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recorded and analyzed Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) activity as part of a program to understand the influence of...

Data obtained by Reuters shows social media titan Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) set a record for the most talked-about event in company history: the World Cup. The one billion posts, likes and comments on that topic occurred between June 12 and June 29, only halfway through the tournament, meaning the...

Pinterest, which promotes itself as a visual search engine after starting its Internet life as a scrapbooking website, just raised $200 million from investors. Again. The company raised $225 million last October and has raised $764 million to date according to ReadWrite. The latest round of...