Sequoia Leads $12.5M Funding Round for Thumbtack Local Services Marketplace

Founded in 2009, Thumbtack has been working at the local marketplace problem for a while.
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Amazon Launches Online Marketplace in India, Selling Books and DVDs to Start

Jeff Bezos’s Goliath is the latest American marketplace to target the Indian e-commerce market.
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eBay Forms Partnership With India’s Snapdeal

eBay Inc. is looking to India to accelerate its growth.

CEO of India’s Snapdeal: “This Is the Pivot Groupon Always Wanted to Make”

Is the next great e-commerce marketplace being built in India?
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Square Loses Two Execs, Including One Out Before His First Day on the Job

Executive turnover continues at the high-profile online payments company.
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Email Money to Friends With Square Cash (But Only if You Work for Twitter, Pinterest or Box)

A new kind of cash — via email — from the micro-payments company.
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Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures

Pinterest brings information from the rest of the Web deeper into its site, like any good emerging social platform.
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A Year Later, What Google Drive Means for Startups

Building on platforms is one of the greatest opportunities for growth.
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