We scour the internet to find the most interesting news on the collaborative consumption front. Here are our picks for the week: eBay Inc Social Innovation Report 2013 There was 16% increase in eBay Inc. Greener Commerce in 2013 – read about Social Innovation impact in new report. The Evolution of Trust David Brooks, NY Times-The… Read more
Awards season is not just about Hollywood and red carpets; it’s also time for Techcrunch’s own annual awards night-The Crunchies. On the 10th of February, in San Francisco, Techcrunch will honour best-in-class startups and technology innovations of the year. This year marks the second time collaborative consumption gets its own awards category to promote the… Read more
The Israeli marketplace Fiverr, which is best known for being the largest marketplace for services starting at $5, is changing its look and feel with a fresh new design. The marketplace is adding new features such as analytics and sellers’ tools that will hopefully boost their online sales, or in their Jargon- gigs. The new… Read more
Braintree-Venmo is launching an easier way for collaborative consumption startups — which could include Braintree’s best-known clients like Uber and Airbnb — to pay their contractors or users. Basically, the headache is this: these companies work with hundreds or thousands of drivers, TaskRabbits or users on their platforms and paying them with checks can make accounting… Read more
Stripe, the YC-backed payments startup funded by Sequoia and PayPal’s original founders, is launching a new way for marketplaces and collaborative consumption startups to let their users directly accept payments. It could be a huge win for early-stage peer-to-peer marketplaces, since many more mature companies in the space like Airbnb have had to go through… Read more
HouseTrip.com, one of the startups working at the accommodation end of the collaborative consumption market, with a platform for people to rent out homes online, has picked up a roomy $40 million as it looks to scale up its operations en route to booking 3 million nights of accommodation this year. The C Round for… Read more