Tokyo-based jewelry designer Hirotaka Inoue with Valery Demure, co-founder with Darren Hildrow of ... [+] NouvelleBox, the world's first fully integrated, online jewelry industry marketplace. Inoue's brand, Hirotaka, is one of many companies benefiting from NouvelleBox's customized international brand-building services.
The first year of the global COVID pandemic took a tragic toll on humanity and on the global economy. 2020 also made dings and dents the fine jewelry industry. As the year progressed, independent jewelry designers, established luxury brands and emerging ones, plus jewelry showrooms and retailers, all watched in anguish as sales flatlined. While some businesses soldiered on by selling via their websites and social media, others with severe losses were forced to shut down.
Many things are taking place:
Pennie, the state-affiliated health insurance marketplace, will extend enrollment period due to
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennie, the state-affiliated health insurance marketplace, announced Wednesday it is opening a Special Enrollment Period to allow anyone impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic more time to enroll in coverage.
The Special Enrollment Period will run from Feb. 15 through May 15, the marketplace said on its website.
"By the end of Pennie's inaugural Open Enrollment nearly 338,000 Pennsylvanians enrolled in coverage, a more than 5,000 increase over last year," Pennie said in its announcement. "Over 75,000 new customers enrolled in coverage through Pennie, a 9.7 percent year-over-year increase.
Wine Marketplace Vivino Raises $155 Million | PYMNTS.com
Vivino, which offers a wine app and online marketplace, is drinking in the news that it has raised $155 million in new funding.
The Series D funding round reportedly was was led by investment firm Kinnevik and Sprints Capital, with participation from GP BullHound and Creandum.
The Spoon said this brings Vivino's total funding to $221 million. The additional funds will go for expansion and to build up the company's technology by adding more artificial intelligence (AI). The goal is to improve on the wine recommendations Vivino provides to customers.
Sellers Invited to Sell on Hudson's Bay Marketplace - EcommerceBytes
Canadian retailer Hudson’s Bay (aka, La Baie D’Hudson) invited third-party sellers to join a new marketplace it will launch this year on its existing platform, thebay.com
The Bay, as the retailer is known colloquially, was incorporated in 1670, making it North America's oldest company; it operates 88 full-line locations in addition to its ecommerce website.
In an announcement inviting “quality vendors” to join “hundreds of new merchants,” Hudson’s Bay said the online marketplace is part of its digital-first strategic evolution.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Facebook shouldn't be surprised groups were overrun with conspiracies - Marketplace
Facebook last month announced it will stop recommending political and civic Groups to its users. The company said users want less politics in their feeds, and it has said it didn’t realize how much its groups were spreading medical misinformation, were being used to radicalize people into QAnon and that they had become one of the home bases for the planners of the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.
Renée DiResta: What was happening beginning in 2016 was you were starting to see these very conspiratorial communities that were taking shape. And they were being recommended to people who had interest in other conspiratorial communities. And when you started to have this, it was like a correlation matrix where it was saying, “Oh, you’re interested in this wild theory? Well, here, try this one on.
Pittsburgh native creates modern real estate marketplace
“It makes it better for people that are looking to sell their house with an agent, or people that might want to sell their house and go directly to a buyer,” said Paul Wakim, CEO and co-founder of TwnSqr Inc., during the KDKA Radio Morning Show on Wednesday.
“We created town square as a way for you to signal, or find out, who the best person is to list your house,” Wakim adds.
The seller uploads information on the property to Twn Sqr’s website. The neighborhood and interior pictures of the house are then viewable to a purchaser.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, will step down as CEO - Marketplace
Amazon said Tuesday that Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO later this year, a role he's had since he founded the company nearly 30 years ago.
Amazon said he'll be replaced in the fall by Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon's cloud business. Bezos will then become the company's executive chairman.
Bezos founded Amazon as an online bookstore and turned it into a behemoth that sells just about everything. In the process, he became one of the world's richest people.
Food marketplace Good Eggs raises $100 million in South California push
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Good Eggs said on Wednesday it had raised $100 million in a new funding round, as the local food delivery firm and marketplace looks to expand beyond the Bay Area into South California and triple its addressable market.
The company's online marketplace allows people to buy consumables, including meal kits, alcohol and flowers, from producers within their community.
The funding round was led by venture capital firm Glade Brook Capital Partners and Alphabet Inc's GV and also included investments from Tao Invest, Finistere Ventures, and Rich's.
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