Fiverr, the online gig marketplace for just about anything, today launched a white glove service for big-budget buyers. Called Project Partner, the service pairs customers with a project leader who manages their project end-to-end. (I struggled mightily, dear readers, to find a synonym for “project” here, but couldn’t. Please forgive me.) Shai-Lee Spigelman, the general […]
Businesses can now hire project managers through Fiverr by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Africa’s largest e-commerce site Jumia has amended its terms and conditions after the regional watchdog, the COMESA (Common Markets for Eastern and Southern Africa) Competition Commission, compelled the marketplace to review clauses and disclaimers it found to be misleading and false. The commission, which precludes restrictive business practices across the common market (21 countries) in […]
African watchdog forces Jumia to review its terms in push to protect consumers by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
Crstl created a network of trading partners and integrations and offers a no-code electronic data interchange workflow for brands to quickly connect and begin transacting with the network.
Want to go from direct-to-consumer to retail? This startup has a platform for that by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Bain Capital Ventures is doubling down on what works, literally. The venture firm, one of Bain’s 11 financial divisions, has raised $1.9 billion across two funds, one for seed to growth-stage startups that hovers around $1.4 billion, and one for later-stage opportunities that closed around a third of that, at $493 million. The capital total […]
For Bain Capital Ventures, ‘it is 2021 all over again’ (well, almost) by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
The OnePlus that was founded in 2013 was a cautious company, deliberate in its release schedule. The Shenzhen-based firm would announce one to two phones a year, not hung up on being the first to market with new features. It was a cadence that allowed the company to distinguish itself, in part, through pricing, with […]
OnePlus’ first foldable will arrive in the second half of the year by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch