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Pinterest rolls out genAI tools for product imagery to advertisers

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Image inspiration and shopping site Pinterest is the latest tech company to roll out generative AI products to its advertisers, following similar moves by Google, Amazon, and others. At its Pinterest Presents advertiser event on Tuesday, the company unveiled new features for its Pinterest Performance+ suite, which includes both automation and AI. The latter which […]

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eBay removes UK seller fees to counter new wave of marketplace startups

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E-commerce giant eBay, facing stiff competition from newer rivals, has removed final-value sales fees for all items excluding cars sold domestically in the U.K. This mirrors a similar move the company made in Germany last year and notably puts eBay in line with the likes of Vinted and Depop, two newer arrivals winning business from

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Oasis opts out of Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing, calling it ‘an unacceptable experience for fans’

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When Oasis announced its reunion tour last month, fans of the British rock icons rejoiced — by some miracle, brothers and frontmen Noel and Liam Gallagher managed to resolve their fifteen-year-long feud and got the band back together. But for fans, getting tickets to see Oasis seemed even more unlikely than the band’s reunion. Thanks

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HungryPanda, a food-ordering app for the Asian diaspora, picks up $55M at a valuation of around $500M

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Apps catering to the Chinese and wider Asian diaspora, especially urban consumers focused on food, can be big business. HungryPanda, one of the trailblazing startups in that market, is now announcing more funding. The food-delivery app, founded in London and aimed squarely at Chinese and other Asian consumers living outside their home countries, has picked

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Meta lets businesses create ad-embedded chatbots

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At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday, Meta announced that it’s expanding its AI-powered business chatbots using click-to-message ads on WhatsApp and Messenger in English. Now, businesses can set up ad-embedded chatbots that talk to customers, offer support, and facilitate orders, Meta says. “From answering common customer questions to discussing

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Amazon employees beg management to reverse 5-day RTO mandate

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced to employees last week that they will be expected to work from the office five days a week, starting in 2025. Employees who have grown accustomed to a hybrid work structure are “strongly dissatisfied,” according to an anonymous survey created by Amazon employees. As Fortune reports, hundreds of employees responded

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This founder grew up in wine country — now he’s built a platform for wine makers

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Growing up in the Hunter Valley, a region of Australia renowned for its fine wine production, Mitchel Fowler never realized he might one day think of an idea that could revolutionize the wine industry. Now, after a long career in finance, he has returned to that heritage to launch a platform to solve the wine

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Amazon adds PayPal as a payment option to Buy with Prime

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Amazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option: PayPal. Today, Amazon announced that Prime customers can use PayPal to check out on websites that’ve integrated the Buy with Prime API. The company also

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