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• n  the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
  they were driven from the marketplace
• n  an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

• BEST LINE "We are far and away the largest marketplace.
• Prosper is an online marketplace that allows lenders and borrowers to bid for loanswith fees and rates than can be much lower than those of a lending institution.
• By 2010, each state would be required to establish an exchange, or marketplace, where insurance will be sold.

• market
• market place
• mart

News & Articles

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• Online Marketplace CustomMade Secures $18 Million to Make Custom Accessible to the Masses
  CustomMade, the online marketplace for one-of-a-kind goods, announced today that it has secured $18 million in additional funding. The round was led by Atlas Venture and returning investor Google Ventures, with participation from Schooner Capital, Next View Ventures, First Round Capital and Launch Capital.
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Online Insurance Marketplace Provides Tips on How to Pick the Best Life Policy
  Online Insurance Marketplace ( http://www.onlineinsurancemarketplace.com ) announces new blog, “Picking the Best Life Insurance Policy.” (PRWeb June 11, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/termlifeinsurancequotes/termlifeinsurancerates/prweb10822200.htm
  June 11, 2013 - PRWeb
• Bootic.com Launches Online Marketplace with Crowd Sourced, Neutral and Unbiased Product Descriptions
  Marketplace provides more valuable product details and new distribution channel for vendors. (PRWeb June 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10775601.htm
  June 10, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Nancy Nord in TIME
  We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the market as a whole. Our goal in pursuing a combination with Yahoo! was to provide greater choice and innovation in the marketplace and create real value... Steve Ballmer http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGT7DyhzQ3h00Y6kfNCQOU0mgtXOA mediacaster http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/PressReleases/FullStory.asp%3FArticleID2%3D3015053&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEw2Ovwk2w6tmK3dYLymMMN_b9TlA May 3, 2008 61459 82018 marketplace Anytime a company brings a banned hazardous product into the US marketplace, especially one intended for children, it is unacceptable," said Nancy Nord, acting chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. "Ensuring that Chinese-made toys...
• Joaquin Almunia in New York Times (blog)
  Joaquin Almunia said in a speech that the EU investigation is still at an early stage but that officials were aware of the "importance of search to a competitive online marketplace."