Adam Wise dedicates much of his free time to backpacking, camping and biking around the Pacific Northwest and California. But like other outdoor enthusiasts, he realized his stockpile of tents… Read More
The Internal Revenue Service is delaying by one year the implementation of a tax policy change that was being fought by online marketplace companies and payment platforms. The change was… Read More
In a bid to pedal past eBay, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace and others, two Seattle-area tech veterans have launched a new online marketplace geared toward the sale of bicycles and parts.… Read More
Is there big market for prescriptions beyond drugs? Several investors with deep experience in health are betting on it — joining in a new $11 million funding round for Xealth,… Read More
German regulatory officials have launched an investigation to find out whether Amazon’s business practices toward sellers in its marketplace are unfair. Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, announced the probe Thursday… Read More
After browsing online for hours on Sunday, Mike Howell finally found a refrigerator he liked. There was one problem, however. The shipment wouldn’t arrive until the second week of October.… Read More
OfferUp today announced several new features for its buying and selling app designed to make transactions safer and more transparent, as the mobile marketplace works to stem safety concerns. Here… Read More
OfferUp has designated more than 450 meeting places for users to exchange goods, in an attempt to get ahead of the safety issues that plague its rival Craigslist. The Community… Read More
Facebook will start testing ads in its local sales tool, Marketplace, according to reports from Recode and Marketing Land. The native ads — sponsored content that looks similar to posts from ordinary… Read More
Minecraft, the wildly popular game that lets players create infinite worlds, will soon allow community developers to sell storylines, games within the game, new landscapes, and adventure maps directly to players.… Read More
You’d be hard-pressed to find a marketplace more analog than fishermen selling seafood straight from the dock at the crack of dawn. Coastline Market sees that as a big opportunity. The… Read More
Like a true entrepreneur, Max Lock is always looking for the next big thing. He had his ear to the ground when he was building Schoolboy Ice Cream and saw… Read More
Facebook announced a suite of new tools Wednesday aimed at helping users get things done. A tool that maps recommendations from friends, more sophisticated event suggestions, and online ordering from… Read More
Facebook officially launched its Marketplace on Monday, once again attempting to carve out a piece of peer-to-peer local sales. The feature, which Facebook has been testing for the past year, allows… Read More
ShareGrid, a marketplace where creatives can share professional equipment and shooting locations, announced $1 million in seed funding Wednesday. MHS Capital, a San Francisco VC that typically focuses on consumer… Read More
Over the past two decades, Craigslist has maintained its market share in the online classified space, despite neglecting to make any major updates to its interface or optimize for mobile. With 20… Read More
When OfferUp launched four years ago, aiming to take on industry titan Craigslist, it looked a lot like David challenging Goliath. But as it turns out, David is growing up quickly. The Bellevue,… Read More
After spending nearly a decade running a motorsports marketing agency, Tony Scott saw a major hole in the marketing field: There wasn’t an industry-standard online marketplace where clients and professionals… Read More
The U.S. and China operate the world’s largest economies and warming relations between the two nations are opening up new business opportunities. Still, the language barrier can be problematic when navigating… Read More
OfferUp — one of the Seattle area’s most valuable, secretive and fastest growing startups — announced more than $90 million in total funding on Wednesday as the online marketplace for… Read More
Update, Thursday Aug. 6: Sayist has taken down its website after GeekWire readers pointed out the large volume of content from other sites, including Craigslist. Sayist CEO Bryan Brzeg provided this… Read More
eBay’s smaller payments unit isn’t so small anymore. PayPal, which enables peer-to-peer transactions and digital payments, is now worth $50 billion on its first day of trading. Meanwhile, it’s former parent… Read More
In just a couple of weeks, eBay and PayPal will no longer be bound together at the hip, ending a 13-year corporate marriage. The plan was originally announced last year, and last… Read More
Mauricio Gonzalez de la Fuente had been working for Microsoft for over two decades when he finally decided to strike out on his own as an entrepreneur. He found motivation… Read More
The home services market may be on the brink of disruption. Amazon recently made headlines with the official roll out of its own home services program, sparking questions of whether other tech giants… Read More
Groupon has launched what it is calling Groupon Stores, a third-party marketplace that will require participating merchants to sell their products at prices 5 percent lower than anywhere else online. Groupon Stores will… Read More
Amazon is famous for selling so many things online that no one thought was possible. Now, the Seattle retailer is tackling yet another challenging category — home improvement and repair —… Read More
The second-hand market for luxury jewelry is expansive. Between the popularity of vintage items and the lasting quality of fine jewelry, there’s high incentive to buy and sell used. But the… Read More
Jobaline, a bilingual marketplace that helps businesses hire dishwashers, construction workers, mechanics, landscapers and janitors, has closed a second round of funding totaling $7 million. The Kirkland, Wash-based startup will use… Read More
Thursday marks the end of an era — the Microsoft Points era, that is. Starting today, transactions on the Xbox 360 will move to actual currency instead of Microsoft’s point… Read More