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Online shoppers looking to save a few bucks have plenty of options this holiday season. Those looking to save on shipping costs in particular might find themselves at FreeShipping.org, a new Web site that lists free shipping deals for hundreds of retailers. “We noticed how many retailers were offering free shipping, and that shoppers were wanting it,” Luke Knowles, cofounder of the company, which is based in Fort Collins, Colo., told the E-Commerce Times. “There wasn’t a Web site out there collecting that information.”

FreeShipping.org: Painless Deliveries

Credit card fraudsters beware: Victrio might be tracking you. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company recently released a new system aimed at identifying, analyzing and storing the voiceprints of identity thieves. “We’re building a nationwide database of bad guys’ voiceprints,” Victrio’s founder and CEO, Tony Rajakumar, told the E-Commerce Times. Victrio’s service involves mapping the sounds associated with individual voices, storing the voices of fraudsters, and then comparing these voices with the ones on incoming calls.

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Voiceprinting: Victrio’s Fraud-Fighting Watchdog

As more and more consumers download smartphone applications, it’s become increasingly vital for developers, phone makers and wireless carriers to have a deeper understanding of how customers interact with them. That’s where a company like Flurry comes in. The San Francisco-based startup has developed software that gives demographic information about mobile application consumers — and Flurry will offer its analytics software for free once it’s ready for the market in late 2008.

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Flurry Sees Analytics Opportunity in Blizzard of Mobile Apps

“Claiming itself to be a next-generation publisher, WEbook has successfully roped in venture capitalists to invest in their business,” Deepak Thakur, senior research analyst in ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times. If the dot-com burst and the more recent Wall Street fiasco have taught us anything, it is that investor confidence is not necessarily a harbinger of success. So if being flush in venture capital funding isn’t the benchmark or the bookmark, what makes WEbook a startup to watch?

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WEbook: Turning Publishing on Its Ear

Woopra, a new Web-tracking and analysis service designed by iFusion Labs, began quietly enough. iFusion Labs CEO John Pozadzides, along with his partners, Elie Khoury and Jad Younan, launched the site at Word Camp, a convention for bloggers, in March 2008, offering memberships to 200 attendees. The quiet launch, however, quickly picked up steam. Within minutes, the bloggers began writing about the service, and people started flooding the site. “As soon as we demonstrated it at Word Camp, we had 2 million visits to the Web site,” Pozadzides told TechNewsWorld.

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Whooping It Up: Woopra Crashes the Web Analytics Party