favicon Apple Wants To Buy Pinterest Rival, The Fancy (AAPL)

  • Business Insider Aug 4, 2012, 4:19 pm by: Owen Thomas217 pts
    Business Insider writes, Apple is in talks to acquire The Fancy, a fast-growing social commerce site backed by cofounders of Twitter and Facebook, Business Insider has learned. The objective: to secure a role for Apple in the growing e-commerce market, putting the 400 million-plus users with credit cards on file with Apple's iTunes Store to work shopping—with Apple getting a cut of the action. While The Fancy is far smaller than archrival Pinterest, which similarly lets users make lists of things they find interesting, the 20-person New York startup, led by cofounder and CEO Joe Einhorn, is much farther along in...

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