Looks like Craigslist finally found an app developer on Craigslist. The longtime internet classifieds site, which launched in 1995, has created its first mobile app, now available for free in… Read More
Today’s featured stories Smart gameball startup Play Impossible inks retail deal with Apple, partners with NFL players, raises cash Seattle engineer creates Cluck, a Chrome extension to identify scams in… Read More
After spending a couple years working at Zillow as a software development engineer, Joyce Wu thought she had a grasp on what the biggest challenges are when it comes to… 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
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
OfferUp has more than doubled its employee count in the last year and is reportedly set to raise $120 million in a round that would give the company a valuation of… Read More
Craigslist competitor OfferUp is set to raise $120 million in a round that would give the Bellevue, Wash.-based company a valuation of $1.2 billion, according to a report from the Wall… Read More
A “one-of-a-kind Internet original” is for sale in the antiques section of Craigslist as a spoof ad has appeared offering the sale of Yahoo for $8 billion. The ad says the… Read More
OfferUp is quietly testing mobile payments for users of its community marketplace in Seattle, giving buyers the option to pay sellers through its app without exchanging cash — and giving itself another potential selling point over… 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
The ranks of would-be Craigslist killers continues to grow, but one young Seattle startup is taking a different approach in its effort to give everyday people a new way to sell… Read More
There’s a new way for Seattleites to get rid of their old electronics. San Francisco-based Gone is launching today in Seattle, bringing its on-demand selling app to the Emerald City. Gone makes… 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
If your post to “Netflix and chill” on Craigslist isn’t getting any responses, you might want to see this. Newsweek reporter Polly Mosendz discovered this weekend after a quick search… 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
If you’re a struggling startup in Tacoma, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, what are you to do? Take out a Craigslist ad for a “Busty/Sexy spokesperson,” that’s what. The… Read More
Members of “for sale” groups on Facebook now have some new tools for hawking their wares on the social networking site. The company announced today that it has changed the… Read More
Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, has taken part of his online classified ads money and gotten involved in advocating for journalism, funding lectures at the Poynter Institute and backing… Read More
We’ve all encountered those questionable Craigslist ads: one person looking for an “R. Kelly Impersonator,” another selling a portable stripper pole — the list goes on. Personally, when I see… Read More
This seems like a great way to get yourself killed, or at least seriously injured. Replyboard founder Steinar Skipsnes and friend Nick LaPratt spent their weekends over the past four months armed with… Read More
We knew that most of the people waiting for the Microsoft Store grand opening in Seattle this week weren’t actually in line to see the store. They were there for… Read More