RTB whiz Neal Richter is the new CTO at Rakuten Marketing, the marketing solutions subsidiary of Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten. Richter, who serves as a technical adviser to a number of ad tech startups, including Metamarkets and nToggle, joins the company after more than seven years with Rubicon Project, most recently as CTO. At Rakuten, […]
ShopStyle offers shoppers a way to search for clothes across 1,400 different retailers. After matching the shopper with that little black dress or other item she’s been looking for, the company takes a cut. But ShopStyle, part of the PopSugar family, faced a problem. To ensure the site’s shoppers end up buying that black dress, […]
Brian Sugar has ambitious plans for PopSugar.com, a celebrity news and pop culture media platform he founded with his wife, Lisa Sugar, some seven years ago. Specifically, he wants to drive more than $1 billion in sales next year to retail partners through ShopStyle, PopSugar.com’s content and commerce offshoot it acquired in 2007. That figure’s […]
