2. Amazon - Joor
Here are some of the ways that Amazon’s platform has grown. Amazon revolutionized
retail by selling massively online to Consumers. Then did it again by opening the
platform for third parties, essentially delivering a service to both business and
consumers. Amazon is now used by meta-sellers, who order directly from other sites
and sell to Consumers. Major e-commerce sellers use Amazon as a platform to sell their
own products in addition to selling them through their own websites. The sales are
processed through Amazon.com and end up at individual sellers for processing and
order fulfillment and Amazon leases space for these retailers.
Amazon competes has destroyed Barnes & Noble and Borders. It’s giving Target a run
for its money. And next on the sites is Cosco. Amazon can start owning the wholesale
market.
Curiously, a good place to start is with fashion, because there is no efficient wholesale
market at the moment. So, basically, Amazon can create it on its platform.
By acquiring Joor it buys a cadre of over 15,000 fashion retailers , and bringing them
within the Amazon ecosystem will attract, well, all the remaining fashion retailers!
See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/business/amazon-plans-its-next-conquest-your-closet.html?_r=0 , and Wikpedia

3. Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times