| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.10.2025 | eBay launches £3m AI programme for UK SMEs | E-commerce giant eBay has unveiled a major initiative aimed at helping UK small businesses harness the power of AI and compete with larger enterprises.
The company’s new programme, ‘AI activate’, is a £3m investment that will provide up to ... |
| 30.05.2025 | How This Entrepreneur Is Disrupting Pet Health When Andrew Hamilton set out to launch Vetr.com, his vision went far beyond building a convenient online pharmacy. For Hamilton, a seasoned entrepreneur ... | When Andrew Hamilton set out to launch Vetr.com, his vision went far beyond building a convenient online pharmacy. For Hamilton, a seasoned entrepreneur with a passion for improving access to veterinary care, it was personal. His own experi... |
| 03.05.2021 | eBay Inc. Announces Pricing $2.5 Billion Senior Unsecured Notes Offering | |
| 08.09.2020 | eBay Launches Authentication on All Watches Sold for $2,000 or More in the US with New Service, "Authenticity Guarantee" | |
| 16.04.2020 | A unicorn twice over: Airwallex closes $250 million Series D round, despite the global COVID-19 crisis | Airwallex co-founder and president Lucy Liu. Source: supplied.
Aussie fintech Airwallex has closed a massive $250 million Series D round, making it a unicorn almost three times over, with a valuation of $2.85 billion.
The round included exi... |
| 08.09.2015 | Think Twice Before Using Porn Apps: Adult Player Takes User's Picture And Demands $500 Ransom | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 08 September 2015, 06:09 am
Security firm Zscaler has discovered a malicious app for Android devices that is able to hold the devices and their users at ransom.
The app is named Adult Player, and it lures users to d... |
| 24.08.2015 | A lesson from Twice: How to completely fail a loyal user base | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It all started with a big announcement from Twice... |
| 24.08.2015 | A lesson from Twice: How to completely fail a loyal user base | It all started with a big announcement from Twice, a San Francisco based eCommerce marketplace for buying and selling secondhand apparel that has grown to more than one million users since its launch. According to the announcement, Ebay had... |
| 25.07.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/25/15 | Dropbox bought Clementine; FanDuel purchased Kotikan; Google acquired Pixate; eBay bought Twice
Event management platform Events.com purchased online registration provider EventsOnline. No financial terms of the acquistion were disclosed.
E... |
| 22.07.2015 | Today’s Fundings, Acquisitions, and IPOs: 500px, Google, Flipboard | In today's daily roundup, Canadian company raises a Series B that includes Andreessen Horowitz, Flipboard is hunting for cash, and tech giants Google, eBay, and Blackberry acquire smaller companies.
Let us know if we've missed anything, and... |
| 20.07.2015 | Ebay Doubles Down On Its “Valet” Service With Acquisition Of Clothing Resale Startup Twice | Ebay is expanding its investment in eBay Valet, its assisted selling service which connects consumers with merchants who will sell items on their behalf for a split of the proceeds, with the acquisition of online clothing resale store Twice... |
| 10.06.2015 | Where Does Your Favorite US App Rank in Terms of Quality? | Believe it or not, there’s a company out there that combs through half a billion ratings and user reviews submitted across more than 30 million apps in the Android and iOS app stores. Why do they do this?
Well, they’ve taken it upon themsel... |
| 18.02.2015 | Secondhand Shop Twice Now Lets You Pay With Other Retailers’ Gift Cards | In a bid to attract more online shoppers to its secondhand shop, the online consignment store Twice is today introducing a new program that will allow consumers to trade in their unused gift cards from nearly two dozen retailers in exchange... |
| 08.08.2014 | Luxury Consignment Reseller Snobswap Grabs $700K To Bring Brick-And-Mortar Shops Online | Snobswap, the D.C.-based online shopping resale site with a funny but memorable name, is one of many new entrants in a growing market focused on bringing the experience of shopping for second-hand clothing and other accessories online. And,... |
| 20.07.2014 | Threadflip Raises $13 Million in Series B, Plans To Grow Workforce by 40% | Threadflip, the online consignment marketplace for women’s clothing, announced $13 million in Series B funding today. Norwest Venture Partners led the round, with participation from previous investors Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital ... |
| 10.07.2014 | Online Clothing Resale Store Twice Rolls Out Same-Day Pickup With Twice Local | Online fashion marketplace Twice, which buys gently worn, quality women’s clothing from consumers then resells it via its own website, mobile and tablet applications, is today expanding into the offline world with the launch of a new servic... |
| 07.02.2014 | The Best Sellers On Women’s Used-Clothes Sites Will Probably Surprise You | ReadWriteShop is an occasional series about the intersection of technology and commerce.
Today’s women’s fashion “re-commerce” websites are certainly no bargain bins. Sites like Threadflip, Poshmark, Bib + Tuck, LikeTwice, and Thredup are r... |
| 16.01.2014 | Funding Daily: T-shirts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Teespring raised an impressive amount of money to... |
| 16.01.2014 | Twice Raises $18.5M | Twice, a San Francisco, CA-based online clothing resale store, raised $18.5m in funding.
The round, which brought the total amount raised by the company to over $22m, was led by Andreessen Horowitz (Jeff Jordan) with participation from exis... |
| 16.01.2014 | Twice Raises $18.5M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Online consignment shop for women's clothing, has raised $18.5 million led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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| 16.01.2014 | Secondhand Clothing Marketplace Twice Raises $18.5M From Andreessen Horowitz | Online fashion marketplaces are picking up steam these days, quickly replacing the traditional auction model pioneered by eBay, as a way to consign, and sell your clothes. Twice, an online consignment shop for women’s clothing, is announcin... |
| 21.11.2013 | Twice Brings Its Secondhand Clothing Marketplace To iPad | Online consignment shop for women’s clothing, Twice, has made the move to mobile, starting first with a dedicated app for iPad, out now. The company, founded in 2012 and backed by $4.6 million in outside funding, was already seeing over hal... |
| 12.06.2013 | Online Fashion Exchange Bib + Tuck Addicts Shoppers With Virtual Currency, Scores $600,000 From Chris Burch & Others | The re-commerce sector just got another vote of confidence, this time from billionaire fashion mogul J. Christopher Burch, who along with a couple of angels have put in $600,000 in seed funding into the online women’s clothing consignment s... |
| 28.03.2013 | High-End Fashion Startup Material Wrld Makes Its Official Debut | Material Wrld, the fashion startup seed funded by Warby Parker and Bonobos investor Great Oaks VC, is today making its public debut. The e-commerce site has come a long way since the beta it had running late last year, and to kick off its l... |
| 27.03.2013 | eBay’s new ‘Sell it Forward’ program channels your hoarding impulses for charity | We all have secret stashes of stuff we rarely use, and yet these items can be oddly difficult to part with. eBay has partnered with Goodwill to lessen separation anxiety and soothe the pains of parting.
This new initiative is called Sell it... |
| 20.02.2013 | Kids’ Clothing Consignment Service thredUP Prepares To Take On Threadflip, Poshmark & More With Move Into Women’s Apparel | Only a month after its expansion into juniors, online and mobile clothing consignment service thredUP is now expanding into women’s apparel. This is the company’s first step out of the kids’ clothes market, representing a shift for the bran... |
| 08.10.2012 | Bring out your dead: Startup offers $1M to ‘acqui-hire’ alums of TechStars, Y Combinator and 500 Startups | Members of the Twice team. Do you want to join this band of geeks?
The hiring crunch for developers in the tech industry is a pain point we hear about nearly every day. Now, a San Francisco startup called Twice — that specializes in selling... |
| 08.10.2012 | Secondhand Clothing Marketplace Twice Is Putting Up $1M To Acquire YC, TechStars Or 500 Startups-Backed Companies | Twice, a secondhand clothing marketplace with $4 million in funding, has come up with a creative way to hire new talent. The company is now putting up $1 million to acquire any Y Combinator, 500 Startups or TechStars company, or any similar... |
| 21.08.2012 | Twice Raises $4M From IA, SV Angel And CrunchFund For Its Concierge-Style Secondhand Clothing Marketplace | The secondhand clothing space is heating up: Between Poshmark, 99Dresses and Threadflip, we’ve covered more than a handful of startups that want to hook users up with clothing that other people no longer want to keep. The “one man’s trash i... |
| 21.08.2012 | Streamlining secondhand fashion, Twice gets $4M funding | Competitor with Threadflip, 99Dresses, Twice sees value in taking unwanted clothes off your hands
The Internet has become the go-to place to find great prices for a diverse range of fashions. From big retailers selling online to flash-sales... |
| 21.08.2012 | Twice Raises $4M in Series A Funding | Twice, a San Francisco, CA-based concierge-style marketplace for secondhand fashion, has raised $4m in Series A funding.
The round was led by IA Ventures, with participation from Felicis Ventures, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, CrunchFund, High ... |
| 19.11.2009 | eBay completes sale of Skype at $2.75 billion valuation | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
eBay said it has completed the sale of a 70-percent stake in Skype communications service for an amount that values the company at $2.7... |
| 19.11.2009 | eBay completes sale of Skype at $2.75 billion valuation | eBay said it has completed the sale of a 70-percent stake in Skype communications service for an amount that values the company at $2.75 billion.
The buyer is an investor consortium led by Silver Lake Partners, the private equity buyout fir... |
| 19.11.2009 | Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation | eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners... |
