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Etsy Sellers Grossed $895M in 2012

in Commerce on January 28 at 12:22 pm PT

Etsy said today that its online marketplace sales grew 70 percent to $895 million in 2012, with total membership nearly doubling to 22 million. But the eight-year-old company takes in only a sliver of that revenue, by charging fees of 3 percent to 3.5 percent per transaction, $0.20 per listing and additional amounts for advertising.

Having Swapped Out Its Original Plan, ThredUp Gets $14.5M for Used-Clothing Sales

in Commerce on October 3, 2012 at 4:00 am PT

ThredUp’s new centralized model beat out its original peer-to-peer clothing exchange.
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Mac App Store Lacks Social Apps, Save for Twitter

in Social on January 6, 2011 at 11:43 am PT

Social apps are few and far between for the grand opening today of Apple’s Mac App Store, meant to be a desktop app marketplace equivalent to the highly successful app stores for Apple devices.