A recent Microsoft earnings call revealed that Minecraft has surpassed 140 million monthly players and 1 billion sales from the Minecraft Marketplace. The survival sandbox title, developed by Mojang, launched in early access back in 2009 and has since grown to become one of the best-selling games of all time. The title continues to receive new content from the developer in the form of updates and expansions.
Despite releasing more than a decade ago, the success of Minecraft continues to grow. Microsoft recently announced a new landmark for the title, with the game's Marketplace leading to the generation of more than $350 million in profits by modders . The Minecraft Marketplace, which launched back in 2017, allows modders to make money by contributing to the community as fellow players purchase their mods to use in-game.
Tamerlane Trading Launches Industry-First, Quality-Verified Online Marketplace for Wholesale and
"The cannabis industry lacks trust and transparency. Wholesale buyers and suppliers want and benefit from quality verification and grading," stated Jhavid Mohseni, CEO of Tamerlane Trading. "We created an open marketplace where graded inventory leads to a 90% reduction in returns, allowing buyers to trust their orders will arrive correctly, and suppliers to leverage the value of their product and access developed sales channels."
"We developed our business in the field next to farmers, in the lab with processors, on the production line with manufacturers, beside distributors and brands, and on the road with industry veterans. Our products and services were created by listening to our clients in order to help them run their businesses more efficiently," continued Mohseni.
Berlin’s Razor Group raises $400M to buy and scale Amazon Marketplace merchants –
The market remains very hot for startups building e-commerce empires by consolidating independent third-party merchants that have gained traction on Amazon’s Marketplace, and in the latest development, Razor Group — a Berlin-based startup buying up promising Amazon sellers and scaling them into bigger, multi-channel businesses — has closed financing of $400 million to scale its own efforts in the space.
Around $25 million is coming in the form of equity to grow its business and $375 million is in debt to make acquisitions, with target businesses typically already pulling in between $1 million and $15 million in annual revenues.
Remembering the hobby shops of yesteryear - Marketplace
What feature of the American economic landscape has disappeared in the last 10 years that was especially meaningful to you? Why do you miss this place?
Sometimes places of commerce, from local mom-and-pops to national chains, become something more to us. But amid the birth of ecommerce, the proliferation of big-box stores and now the pandemic, many stalwarts of the American economic landscape have disappeared in recent years. "Marketplace Morning Report" is chronicling some of these places for our series, “ Vanishing America .”
Awesense launches digital clean energy marketplace | Renewable Energy | Energy Digital
Awesense has launched what it claims is the only energy-focused repository of solutions built to drive the industry's decarbonization agenda.
The Awesense Marketplace aims to provide a common framework for companies to collaborate towards the future of clean energy and digital transformation, uniting applications, solutions and algorithms to solve energy and grid challenges.
Utilities, consulting companies, and other organizations struggle to develop solutions that can be scaled across many jurisdictions due to complex data integration and the lack of a standard, open data model. Using the solutions offered throughout the Marketplace, organizations can rapidly accelerate their transition to a decentralized, decarbonized future and develop solutions that are scalable across industry.
The low-hanging fruit on Biden's climate agenda - Marketplace
What Happens When #MeToo Memoirs Meet the Marketplace?
“After feeling inhibited by these experiences for so long, revealing them was more relieving than anything else,” says Sarah Kasbeer, author of A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man . “The #MeToo movement made me less concerned about whether I was unnecessarily burdening others—there was already an understanding out there about why I needed to speak and how silence on a large scale had been counterproductive.”
Navigating a landscape where these stories are marketable can have adverse effects on the authors, who might feel pressured to reveal more than they’re willing to or to tell their stories in a particular way. “After 2017, I did feel pressure to offer something new to the discourse, which I think can be harmful to one’s own recovery,” Kasbeer says.
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