Kathy Savitt is leaving Yahoo. The tech giant’s chief marketing officer announced today that she is taking a new role at STX Entertainment as president of the motion picture and television studio’s digital arm. Savitt was not… Read More
The story of Lockerz — the battered and bruised Seattle upstart that sold earlier this year to a Chinese e-commerce company at a fire sale price — is one of the more… Read More
Remember Lockerz? A little over two years ago, Lockerz founder Kathy Savitt declared that the heavily-funded social commerce startup was poised to be “the homepage for Generation Z.” People in… Read More
Lockerz, the heavily-funded Seattle social commerce startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures and others, is going through a transition with executives departing; products changing and assets being sold… Read More
Yesterday, Michael Birch announced that he had successfully re-purchased Bebo for $1 million from AOL, the company that originally bought the social networking upstart for a hefty $850 million. Now,… Read More
Lockerz appears to be unlocking its next chapter. The Seattle social commerce startup is behind a service called Ador, a new online fashion site where shoppers can “get new arrivals… Read More
Lockerz, the heavily-funded social commerce startup, has reportedly laid off a chunk of its staff and closed down an office in San Diego. TechCrunch reports that about 30 percent of… Read More
Seattle startup Lockerz lost its founder and CEO — retail and PR vet Kathy Savitt — to an executive role at Yahoo in August. But that’s not slowing the company’s enormous appetite… Read More
Sometimes you run into stories in the strangest places. On an elevator ride in Pioneer Square this morning, I bumped into Wishpot founder Max Ciccotosto who let me in on a… Read More
Marissa Mayer continues to put her mark on Yahoo, announcing today that Seattle public relations veteran and entrepreneur Kathy Savitt has joined the company as chief marketing officer. Savitt previously… Read More
Ian Shafer has joined Yabbly, a new social decision making app created by former Marchex exec and Google product manager Tom Leung. A 2001 graduate of the University of Washington’s computer… Read More
Lockerz continues to bolster its ranks through acquisitions, with the fast-growing Seattle social shopping company announcing that it has acquired online fashion community Chick Approved. Chick Approved — founded by… Read More
Some of the biggest names in venture capital are putting their faith in Lockerz, a Seattle upstart that came on the scene in a big way in 2011. The company,… Read More
Fast-growing Seattle startups Zulily and Redfin have been named to Alley Insider’s Digital 100 ranking of the most valuable startups in the world. Zulily debuted on the list at #28,… Read More
Heavily-funded social networking startup Lockerz, which just scored $36 million in venture capital financing, is using some of that cash to expand its online video offerings. Today, the Seattle company… Read More
Lockerz, the fast-growing Seattle social networking upstart targeting teens and twenty somethings, has inked a deal with EMI Music to distribute thousands of videos from artists such as Coldplay, Lenny… Read More
Lockerz intense hunger for fresh capital continues. The fast-growing social networking company today announced that it has raised $36 million in venture capital, disclosing for the first time that DAG… Read More
Fresh off its $30 million venture capital round, Seattle-based Lockerz has purchased AddToAny for an undisclosed amount. AddToAny, whose free widget is used by online publishers, describes itself as the… Read More
We’ve been tracking a number of key appointments, departures and relocations in the Seattle tech industry in recent days. Here are a few notable tech moves: Dave Scott, the founder… Read More
Lockerz boasts more than 19 million members of its social shopping service. But until today it was largely a Web-based experience. That’s changing with the company’s introduction of a free… Read More
Lockerz just scored $30 million in venture capital financing from the likes of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and former Microsoft CFO Greg Maffei. And how is the Seattle social networking… Read More
Last week, Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt told GeekWire that we’d have to “stay tuned” for news about the company’s future financing plans. Well, that news is starting to leak out.… Read More