San Diego, California – Three San Diego technology entrepreneurs, Jan Anton, Brendan Boyd and Eric Jacobson, have launched OneMarketplace at the 2009 TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, CA. OneMarketplace is a simple application that allows users to: list items for sale on multiple marketplaces like eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, Oodle, OLX and Vast using one form; promote those listings on social networks like Twitter and Facebook; and increase the sale value of items sold by increasing exposure to the marketplace.
Facebook Marketplace has undergone a few changes in the past few months or so, and in an effort to maintain prominence for users, the Facebook Marketplace is adding a new feature today as well. Called “Shout” the new feature aims to make the Facebook classifieds more social.
I live in New York City, in the borough of Queens, and everyone I know – except me – is a renter. The only reason I’m not one is that I still live at home with my parents, albeit begrudgingly, for now until I can afford to move out. But when I do move out I’ll most likely be a renter too.
However, if you are one of the few lucky ones in this ever-dwindling economy who can still afford to buy an actual house, then there are things you should know before you buy so that you, your house, and your money remain intact.
Ticket reselling, or scalping, was once limited to classified ads, PO boxes and the sidewalks around a major event. While some of that still exists, the online world of ticket reselling has morphed into big business. Ticket Resellers come in many types - but the two principle types are companies that buy the tickets themselves and then resell them and companies that act as brokers helping individual ticket buyers to resell their tickets. As our list of the top online ticket resellers will show, regardless of type of sale this secondary marketplace is booming.
The on-line manufacturing community has a new trade guide to buy and sell finishing equipment & finish systems at http://industrialsaver.com.
The Internet affords us with oodles of information right smack at our fingertips, but with such access comes a slew of potential dangers. Thieves are clever, and they won’t stop until they have someone’s account, or money, or identity, or all of the above. But, if you follow these tips you’ll know how to stay safe (and possibly even make a little money).
MySpace Canada, today announced a new social classifieds service called MySpace Canada Classifieds located at http://canada.classifieds.myspace.com/. Powered by Oodle, MySpace Canada Classifieds offers users a safe - and social - marketplace to buy and sell products and services within their trusted group of friends for free.
Before voting for Meg Whitman for governor, residents of California would do well to consider what has been happening at eBay since she stepped down as chief executive.
Korean online marketplace Gmarket has reacted warmly to eBay's $1.2 billion purchase offer. Pending the approval of all necessary parties, eBay will join Gmarket with its existing Korean site, Internet Auction Co.
As the effects of the weak economy impact global and local businesses, companies are increasingly looking to AsiaXPAT for cost-effective advertising solutions that deliver proven results to help them weather the storm.
eBay delivered a broad overview of its business to analysts on Wednesday and painted a rosy picture for the year 2011 - but it said this year will not be great for Marketplaces (growth expected to be slower than the market in 2009). eBay heavily promoted its PayPal business, and complained to analysts that they were undervaluing eBay stock.
Marketplace has relaunched as a "social classifieds" application, letting you see not only what people are selling but why.
Taobao.com, China’s largest online shopping marketplace for consumers in China, reported on Tuesday that its transaction volume (gross merchandise volume) reached RMB 99.96 billion (US$14.62 billion) in 2008, a 131 percent increase over the previous year. Taobao’s transaction volume for 2008 exceeded the sales volume of China’s largest mass retailer, and equaled approximately 1% of [...]
CHICAGO With auto sales at depressed levels -- and classified ads with them -- Cars.com, the car shopping site owned by five newspaper chains, says its traffic is surging.
It has always been obvious that developed economies don't own the monopoly on innovation. But don't those living in the West usually get the spoils?
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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