We heard back in May that Amazon was quietly planning the launch of an Etsy rival, and on Thursday those preparations emerged in the form of Handmade. Like Etsy, Handmade is an online marketplace ...

NEW YORK - Amazon (AMZN) is launching its site for handcrafted goods called Handmade at Amazon on Thursday, hoping to capitalize on shoppers' appetite for homemade goods ahead of the holiday season.

Etsy (NYSE:ETSY) agreed to sell Depop to eBay for US$1.2b. The deal allows Etsy to focus more tightly on its core handmade and creative goods marketplace. Management highlighted that the core ...

The storefront for handcrafted items is another effort by the e-commerce giant to become the everything store while simultaneously gunning for Etsy's business. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for ...