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Ottawa, Canada (PRWeb) February 1, 2012

Shopify, the leading e-commerce platform used to create power and online stores, announced today that it acquired award-winning mobile company Select Start Studios Inc. ( S3). This strategic acquisition will allow the company to rapidly expand its mobile growth strategy, and is the first major investment since the receipt of $ 15 million in Series B funding on October 17, 2011.

Tobias L TKE, founder and CEO of Shopify, the company in 2004 launched with the aim of redefining how people build online stores. Today, e-commerce platform has over 20,000 active online shops in 80 different countries. Individuals, entrepreneurs and businesses use Shopify to install and power their online stores. Shopify is known for its focus on ease of use, beautiful store designs, and scalability.

long, said the future of e-commerce both social and mobile. After seeing a massive increase in mobile transactions on Shopify, we believe the future is now and mcommerce revolution is well under way, L? TCO. S3 The acquisition brings in top talent quickly deliver on our mobile strategy, and produce several new mobile product offerings this year

Tariq Zaid, co-founder and chief executive officer of S3, Shopify will be connected with his team of more than 20 mobile engineers and designers. We are excited to Shopify to carry out the company’s mobile initiative, said Zaid. They focus on the mobile, deep understanding of technology, and general culture makes it a natural fit. We have been cooking some very exciting innovations that show just how game changing mcommerce will be

all Shopify stores have been optimized mobile storefronts and checkout, and an app that allows traders all their online shopping from their mobile device management. The acquisition will allow S3 to Shopify to continue providing dealers with an extensive and changing mobile offering.

Angry birds is one of most famous Shopifys know the company’s mobile offering fully utilizing. A significant proportion of angry birds sales made through a mobile device. We looked at a number of different e-commerce options, but Shopify most sense, said Niklas Kari, Rovios head of retail, we have strong recommendations from other partners, and the construction of the shopping was easy.

To learn more about Shopify, visit http://www.shopify.com

About

Shopify

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows individuals and businesses awesome online stores to create. Shopify currently powers more than 20,000 active online shops including: Angry Birds, Amnesty International, General Electric, Tesla Motors, LMFAO, Foo Fighters, Encyclopedia Britannica, Tata Group, Evisu Jeans, DODOcase, Penny-Arcade, CrossFit, GitHub, EverNote and Epic meal. Shopify was founded in 2004 by two snowboarding enthusiasts who wanted a better way to create their snow for online sales. Shopify has received $ 22 million in funding from the series A and B of Bessemer Venture Partners, First Market Capital, Felicis Ventures, and the Georgian partners.

Shopify Contact:

Mark Hayes

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Staten Island, NY (PRWeb) December 19, 2011

SILive.com a new iPad app launched with real-time local news, sports, entertainment, business and opinion articles, photos and ads . / P>

SILive.com iPad app features the contents of the statement islands leading news and information properties including the SILive.com Staten Island Advance.

The free information is available in the iTunes App Store. It was developed with Digital Advance and juicy Wireless launched.

“SILive.com became the go-to place States Islanders local information they need to find every day,” said Bill Huus, managing editor, Staten Island Advance. “This new app, the visit even more rewarding for all our users iPad

The app includes a fat, photo-driven home screen that automatically rule Top stories in a stylish, dynamic layout. Articles automatically adjust to portrait or landscape orientation. Product pages with a clean look with an adjustable text size, and saving and sharing features through Facebook, Twitter and iMessage.

I’m glad to see that we offer mobile againgiving have expanded our users another option for access to information and the media is important to them on SILive.com, said Barbara Chodos, general manager of SILive . com. Plus, the layout, the quality and capabilities of the new iPad app, the user experience more enjoyable. It needs its readers SILive.com

articles with multiple pictures automatically generate photo galleries. Intuitive gestures sweep the reader moves quickly from one to another. A convenient pop-up tray More articles show the 20 most recent stories in an article. Articles are downloaded and stored locally in the app for quick access even when offline.

content on the app includes news coverage of local communities in Staten Island, high school sports, local pro and college teams, entertainment coverage from TV, movies, music and local arts scene, and photographs and obituaries. There also local advertising and links to classifieds listings of jobs, autos, and homes for sale and rent.

Download the

SILive.com iPad app from the App Store here.

About

SILive.com

SILive.com, a subsidiary of Advance Digital, Inc., the leading local website for news and information throughout the Staten Island in Staten Island the latest news, business, sports, travel, weather, traffic, shopping and entertainment information. Moreover SILive.com a comprehensive business directory listings, as well as the local classified listings for jobs, houses, an apartment and car. SILive.com is powered by the Staten Island Advance.

About Staten Island Advance

The Staten Island (NY) Advance, the flagship newspaper of Advance Publications, Inc., in 1922 was bought by SI Newhouse Sr., the first of more than two dozen papers he bought. IT Services New York City’s most suburban Borough, the only one with its own newspaper. In addition to providing its readers with environment-based local news, proud sponsors many events and programs. The Advance is celebrating its 125th anniversary year in 2011.

About Digital Advance

Advance Digital, Inc., based in Jersey City, NJ, provides information and digital connectivity solutions for local consumers and businesses. The media company operates 11 properties in the U.S. the number one local news, information and community hubs in the markets they serve. The sites include al.com, cleveland.com, gulflive.com, NJ.com, NOLA.com, OregonLive.com, SILive.com, syracuse.com, MassLive.com, PennLive.com and lehighvalleylive.com.

About Verve Wireless

Verve monetizes local mobile media. Our solutions help local media companies monetize their mobile inventory and enable advertisers a valuable, premium audience to get where they live, work and play. Over 1000 local publishers use the Verve platform mobile advertising their businesses to manage and help their sales teams more effectively. In addition, we bring incremental revenue to our publishers through our relationships with national advertisers, the value of the Verve network of high quality local media companies, including mobile shops of recognized local media brands as well as new digital-only local and hyper- local publishers. This is a brand-safe, editorially-driven, high quality and transparent environment with market-leading focused, creative and reporting capabilities. Only Verve has a comprehensive national footprint of high quality local media conferences. Verve is located in San Diego, California and Washington DC. For more information, visit http://www.vervewireless.com

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