Moreover, in the last 2 decades, the number of new antimicrobial drugs that reached the marketplace has fallen to less than half the previous level [ 47].
In the U.S., leading handmade marketplace Etsy's shares have fallen since its April 2015 initial public offering, but similar e-commerce platforms in Asia are still getting attention from venture capital firms.
The share of the company's revenue that comes from what it calls its "marketplace" (aka the website itself), have fallen for three straight years.
Although the original iMac was a huge success, selling six million since its introduction, Mr. Jobs has had other less successful design forays that have won raves from critics and industrial designers but have fallen flat in the marketplace.
"Now that multilateral trade talks under the World Trade Organization have fallen apart, it is difficult for Japan to compete in the global marketplace without bilateral free trade agreements," Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of Nippon Keidanren, Japan's most important business group, told reporters last week.
In addition to its own site that it had sold to Flipkart, eBay was a repeat investor in Snapdeal, another e-commerce marketplace in the country that has fallen on challenging times amid fierce competition in the market.
But in a marketplace that demands very little in the way of commitment, a crucial aspect of shopping has fallen by the wayside: the element of choosing.
One report estimates that 14 million people obtained health insurance coverage through the marketplaces and Medicaid -- surpassing previous estimates -- and that the percentage of Americans without coverage has fallen by 5 percentage points.
As that sector has fallen out of favor, so have the companies that Internet Capital invested in -- like Breakaway Solutions, a provider of e-business products, and Onvia.com, a marketplace to help small businesses buy and sell services and products.
"Even its best argument has fallen victim to Microsofts inability to create a crisp record showing that it faces significant competitive pressures in every pertinent marketplace".
