Online video-based marketplace The Talk Market raises funding from Amazon
The Talk Market is trying to create a video-based marketplace, where users can customize their self-created informercials. As a seller, you shoot a video of what you’re selling, then use The Talk Market to add graphics, including customized motion graphics, and music to your videos.
The company has raised an undisclosed round of equity funding from Amazon. Also, it uses Amazon Web Services Flexible Payment service, providing its merchants with free (but mandatory) Amazon Payments Business accounts so that existing Amazon users can make purchases with credit cards they already have set up with Amazon.
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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.