Californian tech start-up Tophatter, a platform for live 1.5 minute auctions, has managed to ramp up monthly gross sales from $200,000 to $3 million in just over a year, the company said on Thursday.

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 11, 2013) - Tophatter, the world's most entertaining live marketplace, today released an app for iPhone and iPod touch that brings the excitement and energy of a live ...

Four months after Tophatter took its fast-paced live auction marketplace beyond the Web and onto iPhones, the California-based startup has now been optimized for iPads too. Tophatter sells itself as ...

Tophatter has come a long way since 2011. That year the company had raised money for an offering that frankly was not getting any traction. COO Andrew Blachman joined the company that year and worked ...

Auction-style and flash sales business models appear to have lost some of their luster in recent years: eBay has pivoted its focus to a more marketplace-centered experience, and companies like Gilt ...

The team behind share-your-purchase-information startup Blippy has started talking about its new direction. After pivoting from Blippy to another e-commerce project, it has pivoted again and is now ...

Back when real-time auction app Tophatter was founded in 2012, it spent as much as 95% of its user acquisition budget on Facebook. But with a solid user base of around 12 million registered users, ...

Online auction marketplaces continue to draw consumer interest, and sites such as Poshmark, Vinted, IBuySell and ThredUp are helping to drive sales in this segment as shoppers hunt for bargains. As a ...

Tophatter, a flash sales site that sells apparel, makeup and electronics through 90-second auctions, released its Android app today and announced its first international expansion. The app is now ...