A new share-what-you-buy startup called Swipely has announced it's pulled in $7.5 million in venture funding to take on Blippy, its better-capitalized rival. Both sites allow you to announce big ...

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Earlier today, VentureBeat detailed a major Blippy privacy breach that exposed user credit card information to search engines. The breach appears to have occurred on a small scale — Blippy believes ...

A controversial new website that shares details of users’ credit card and online purchases with their friends on the Internet appears to have done a bit too much sharing. A recent glitch exposed the ...

Readers seem pretty split about what to think of Blippy, the service which allows you to share your credit card purchases online. About half think it’s the next logical step in sharing data online.

As we reported this morning, Blippy, the social network for weirdos people who want to broadcast to their credit card activity, accidentally published some of its users' credit card numbers. Whoops!

On a recent shopping trip, Fidji Simo spent $292.22 on three dresses from Macy's - one for Christmas, one for New Year's Eve and another one because she "really felt like it." Chronicling her ...

Researchers from Cyveillance are calling the recently launched "Twitter of personal finance" service - Blippy, a "spear phisher's dream" due to the massive amounts of real-time purchasing history ...

(CNN)-- In Philip Kaplan's world, no credit card purchase is private -- not even the $70.06 "sexy gift" he bought from a gay-themed shop called "Does Your Mother Know." He posted that transaction ...

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but social shopping site Blippy made a little slippy. Blippy, a four-month-old startup funded partially by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, lets you create a “social ...

In Blippy’s world, everyone gets deals on everything! All you have to do is share your credit card information online! Hey, wait. Where are you going? The social media start up, which has been ...

Blippy, a social-network for people who want to publish their purchasing activity, was busted on Friday for publishing some of its users' credit card numbers. By Friday afternoon, Blippy said it fixed ...