An Etsy bill payment error resulted in large amounts of money being withdrawn from several sellers’ bank accounts and credit cards on Friday morning. While the company says the issue has been resolved and was not the result of fraud, the headache isn’t over for affected sellers because Monday is a federal holiday in the United […]
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Union Square Ventures secures $429M across two new funds
USV co-founder Fred Wilson expect U.S. venture capitalists will “take a more cautious stance in 2019.”
View More Union Square Ventures secures $429M across two new fundsDistinguished VCs back wholesale marketplace Faire with $100M at a $535M valuation
Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures, Keith Rabois of Khosla, Alfred Lin of Sequoia and Alex Taussig of Lightspeed are backers of Faire.
View More Distinguished VCs back wholesale marketplace Faire with $100M at a $535M valuationEasyship, a Stripe for global e-commerce shipping, raises $4M
Easyship, a Hong Kong-based startup that aims to make international shipping for e-commerce as easy as payments, has closed a $4 million Series A round. The company was founded in 2015 by former Lazada duo Tommaso Tamburnotti and Augustin Ceyrac, and ex-banker Paul Lugagne Delpon. From their time with Lazada, the then-Rocket Internet -owned e-commerce site […]
View More Easyship, a Stripe for global e-commerce shipping, raises $4MMeet the woman leading Accel’s consumer growth investments
Accel has hired Maya Noeth to lead its consumer growth investing efforts. The firm typically promotes from within; Noeth is its first outside hire in over two years.
View More Meet the woman leading Accel’s consumer growth investmentsStates will be able to charge sales tax on online purchases thanks to the Supreme Court
In a five-to-four decision issued today, the Supreme Court ruled that states can make online businesses collect sales taxes — even if they don’t have a physical presence in that state. Today’s ruling overturns a decision from the Court in 1992 that paved the way for the explosion of online retail in the United States. […]
View More States will be able to charge sales tax on online purchases thanks to the Supreme CourtMore tech companies sue FCC over net neutrality
The internet isn’t letting net neutrality disappear without a fight.
Several big tech companies, including Etsy, Expa, Kickstarter, Automattic, Foursquare, and Shutterstock, filed a petition on Monday with the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circ…
Forget 3D printing, molding is all the rage right now
With this device you can easily make molds of just about any object. The ‘FormBox’ by Mayku can be used to make objects or make molds to make large numbers of objects. Read more…More about Tech, Art, Mashable Video, Etsy, and Architecture
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