Meta launches Marketplace app
Meta released a dedicated Facebook Marketplace app for sellers and added free verification.
MarketplaceCoiner of ‘Enshittification’ Endorses ‘Dickover’
Speaking of dickovers , here’s Cory Doctorow, writing this week at Pluralistic: Seizing the means of computation isn’t theft, it’s bargaining . Commercial surveillance companies will tell you that by spying on you, they are simply engaged in a marketplace exchange in which you swap your privacy for access to online services. But they are running a very curious sort of market: it’s a “market” where as soon as you stop to browse someone’s wares, the stallholder gets to reach into your pocket and c
Meta launches a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace with AI-powered listings
Meta has launched Seller, a standalone app built for people who sell regularly on Facebook Marketplace, giving them dedicated tools for managing listings, communicating with buyers, and tracking sales performance in a single place. The free app is available now on the App Store for US users aged 18 and older, and syncs automatically with […] This story continues at The Next Web
Stripe Eyes $10 Billion Deal For AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PYMNTS.com: Stripe is in talks to buy OpenRouter, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that could sell for roughly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move would mark a significant step outside payments for a company that processes transactions for much of the internet. It also lands while Stripe pursues a far larger target: a bid for PayPal that would value the payments giant at about $53 billion. The Journal reported Thursday (Ju
Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system
Seller is a dedicated Marketplace app for people who list and sell items frequently.
Meta launches a storefront platform through Facebook Marketplace
Facebook has introduced an app called Seller that effectively professionalizes Facebook Marketplace.
Meta Launches New Facebook Marketplace App Called Seller
Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company’s strategy to innovate on its original social network.
“Trusted human curation is becoming increasingly valuable”: This new Squarespace marketplace wants to fix broken search
Could curation be a better approach to discovering the tools, templates, and services you need?
Bain and LY Are Said to Mull Higher Bid for Kakaku, Rivaling EQT
Bain Capital and LY Corp. are considering making a fresh joint offer for Japanese online marketplace Kakaku.com Inc., people familiar with the matter said, marking an escalation in the bidding war with private equity firm EQT AB.
Munich’s Aampere charges up with €4.2 million to expand its used EV resale platform across Europe
Aampere, a Munich-based e-mobility startup, has raised €4.2 million to expand its fully digital resale platform for used electric cars across Europe. The round was led by Estonian VC Trind Ventures, with Vend Marketplaces ASA, the Nordic family of marketplaces behind FINN.no, Blocket and Bilbasen, joining as a minority investor. Consumer investor G-FUND has also […] The post Munich’s Aampere charges up with €4.2 million to expand its used EV resale platform across Europe appeared first on EU-St
Amazon Investigated Over Chinese Influence by US Senate Panel
Amazon.com Inc. is being investigated by the Senate Small Business Committee for allegedly letting China influence the company’s online marketplace, according to a document reviewed by Bloomberg and two people interviewed as part of the investigation.
Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.
AliExpress Hit With Record $625 Million Fine After Failing To Make EU-Ordered Fixes
The European Commission has fined AliExpress more than $625 million, the largest penalty yet under the Digital Services Act, after finding that the marketplace failed to "diligently assess and mitigate risks relating to the sale of illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products on its e-commerce platform." EU officials said flagged products repeatedly reappeared, sellers could evade safeguards, and AliExpress's recommendation and ad systems helped amplify dangerous goods. Ars Technica reports: For sha
The 'Death of the Stick Shift' is Almost Here for Americans
Last year just 0.6% of new vehicles made for U.S. customers were stick shifts, reports the Washington Post, citing preliminary government data. "That's a precipitous drop from the 34.6 percent of vehicles with manual transmissions produced in 1980." [T]he stick shift's popularity hit multiple new lows in recent years, with no signs of a turnaround, thanks to new technologies and a rapidly changing marketplace. Buyers and automakers increasingly have turned to the sophisticated automatic driv
StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stubhub-ceo-class-action-scalping-9.7268987 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912100 Points: 31 # Comments: 2
StubHub, CEO Hit With 'Deceptive Practices' Class Action Over Mass Scalping
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers -- connections reported by CBC News last week. The suit, filed Monday by New York ticket buyer Louis Sanquini, alleges deceptive practices and fraudulent misrepresentation over StubHub's promoting itself as a "marketplace for fans to buy and sell tickets." The online ticket resale gian
What makes the best stablecoin payment solution?
Key Takeaways Stablecoin payments help businesses combine blockchain settlement speed with more predictable value. The best stablecoin payment solution should support acceptance, stablecoin settlement, fiat settlement, reporting, compliance, and payout capabilities. Stablecoins are useful for ecommerce businesses, SaaS companies, international merchants, marketplaces, affiliate networks, global payroll, and cross-border supplier payments. A provider should be evaluated […] This story continues a
A 23-year-old’s AI startup wants a $20bn valuation, months after a breach cost it Meta
A three-year-old startup run by a 23-year-old is in talks to double its worth to $20bn. The numbers are dazzling. Read the footnotes. Mercor, the AI training marketplace, has told investors it can raise at a $20bn valuation. It says it already holds at least one term sheet at that price, Bloomberg reports. The talks […] This story continues at The Next Web
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One-stop live data marketplace for your agent Discussion | Link
Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created
Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the sidelines.
Restaurants can now accept orders placed directly from ChatGPT and Claude thanks to Square's new, low-fee, no setup integration
Square is launching a new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin, enabling consumers to discover restaurants and seamlessly place orders directly within these AI platforms — and allowing restaurants, in turn, to accept orders from users and their AI agents without any technical capabilities. Even more helpfully for businesses, Square is processing these AI-driven transactions without charging the traditional marketplace commission fees that have historically squeezed the food and beverage sector. However
AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day
Amazon built Prime Day to keep shoppers inside its own marketplace. This year, AI shopping sent its best customers in from outside: a chatbot made the recommendation. US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn across retail sites during the four-day Prime Day event, according to Adobe Analytics. The more interesting number is not the total. It […] This story continues at The Next Web
Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other
OKX is bringing together payments, identity and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.
Google Cloud will sell specialist AI models built for science
Google is adding SandboxAQ’s ‘large quantitative models’ to its cloud marketplace, pairing Gemini with AI trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. The large language models that power most of the AI industry are very good at words and surprisingly unreliable at numbers. Google’s latest move is an admission that, for science, a different kind […] This story continues at The Next Web
Lenovo debuts curious mini PC that comes with a proprietary 'store' where you can buy up to 8000 different AI skills — is this the future of computing?
Lenovo's AI Host Mini combines dedicated AI hardware with a proprietary marketplace offering more than 8000 downloadable AI skills.
Multiple malicious OpenClaw skills found online - including two macOS infostealers
Criminals found yet another marketplace to infect and use as a launchpad for malware delivery.
Bloomberg Crypto 6/23/2026
"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Strive CEO Matt Cole, Dragonfly COO Lindsay Lin, Vanderbilt Law School Professor & Associate Dean Yesha Yadav, and RWA Marketplace TX Co-Founder Ashely Ebersole. (Source: Bloomberg)
A fake AI agent skill passed every security scanner and reportedly reached 26,000 agents
Security firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and promoted it with an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design, collecting only […] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple Announces Major App Store Changes on iOS in Brazil
Apple is allowing iPhone developers in Brazil to distribute apps through authorized alternative marketplaces and use third-party payment systems following action by the country's competition regulator. "In other words, developers in Brazil will be able to circumvent the App Store and Apple's in-app purchase system, but there are still fees," reports MacRumors. Apple will collect commissions ranging from 5% on externally distributed apps to as much as 26% for some App Store transactions using its
Apple opens iOS to rival app stores in Brazil after antitrust settlement with CADE
Apple on Wednesday announced changes to iOS in Brazil that will allow developers to distribute apps through alternative marketplaces, operate their own app stores, and process payments for digital goods outside Apple’s In-App Purchase system. The changes take effect with iOS 26.5 and stem from a settlement with Brazil’s competition regulator CADE. Brazil now joins the European […] This story continues at The Next Web
Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts
Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alongside the usual search modes like "People" and "Marketplace." It's one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto […]
Facebook now has an AI search engine that pulls answers from your Group posts and Reels
Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience that uses Meta AI to pull answers from public posts across the platform. The feature surfaces information from Facebook Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings, turning years of user-generated content into a searchable knowledge base. It is rolling out now to users in the United […] This story continues at The Next Web
Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute | Odd Lots
When we spoke to DRW's Don Wilson last year, he talked about building out a GPU market that might be bigger than oil. Now, a year later, he is working with Carmen Li to do just that. Li is the CEO of two companies — Silicon Data and Compute Exchange (where she works alongside Wilson). The former company is building the index for GPU pricing while the latter is a spot marketplace for GPU procurement. Today's episode — recorded at our live show at City Winery in New York — gets into how Li is buil
Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand
Spotify has removed more than 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts tied to illegal drug promotion after a US Senate investigation exposed the scale of the problem. The episodes, spread across more than 3,000 shows, used AI-generated audio to direct listeners to websites selling modafinil, opioids, and cryptocurrency on unregulated marketplaces. Senator Maggie […] This story continues at The Next Web
Slovakia’s Nordics rebrands as Definic, raises €2.5 million to scale its vendor intelligence platform
Košice-based Nordics today announced that it has rebranded to Definic and closed a €2.5 million Seed round as it expands from a regional IT marketplace into a global vendor intelligence platform. The round was led by J&T Ventures, with participation from Seed Starter ČS (Česká spořitelna) and Slovak Investment Holding (SIH). The funding will be […] The post Slovakia’s Nordics rebrands as Definic, raises €2.5 million to scale its vendor intelligence platform appeared first on EU-Startups .
French trading card game platform CardNexus raises €3.5 million to support team expansion
CardNexus, the Bordeaux-based mobile-first marketplace and collection platform for trading card game (TCG) enthusiasts, today announced a €3.5 million pre-Seed round to support team expansion. The round was led by Piton Capital, with participation from Motier, FSJ, OPRTRS, Kima Ventures, Aquiti, and a group of TCG content creators. “We started CardNexus because we couldn’t find […] The post French trading card game platform CardNexus raises €3.5 million to support team expansion appeared first o
Vinted’s CEO says the US is an “enormous opportunity” as the $9B secondhand marketplace plots its Atlantic crossing
Vinted, the Lithuanian secondhand marketplace valued at €8 billion after an €880 million secondary share sale in April, is pushing into the United States and sees an “enormous opportunity” in the American resale market, according to marketplace CEO Adam Jay. Speaking at London Tech Week on Sunday, Jay told CNBC that the shift toward secondhand […] This story continues at The Next Web
BlenderHunt
The indie marketplace for Blender artists and creators Discussion | Link
Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide 'Recording Lights' on Meta Smartglasses
People are disabling the "recording light" on Meta's Ray-Ban smartglasses — "by my count, thousands of people," says tech journalist Joanna Stern in a new video report: STERN: "They're hiring people on Facebook Marketplace to drill out the light for as much as $100. According to our reporting, folks are offering this service in at least 30 states — despite Meta's attempts to stop it... In most states, we found multiple listings. In the New York and New Jersey area alone there were 23 listings."
The Underworld Market to Remove the Recording Indicator Light on Meta Glasses
Joanna Stern, on YouTube: People across the country are offering a service on Facebook Marketplace to disable the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They call it “Stealth Mode.” Joanna paid $100 for the modification and went inside the growing business of turning smart glasses into covert cameras. She investigates who is doing it, whether it’s legal and what some are doing to try and stop it. Of course there’s a market for this. But the true chef’s kiss is that the market to find people wh
EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in
The General Court annulled the Commission’s designation of Marketplace under the Digital Markets Act, faulting its reasoning, while upholding the same label for Messenger. Meta walked into the EU’s General Court asking it to strike down two gatekeeper labels and walked out having shed one. On 3 June the Luxembourg court annulled the European Commission’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
Valve’s Hard-Line Tactics Clash With Founder’s Reputation as Benevolent Gamer
Lawsuit claims Valve’s Steam store squeezes developers just like other app marketplaces
CoStar is paying $800 million for Zonda to close the last gap in its real estate data empire
CoStar Group has agreed to acquire Zonda, the leading provider of new-home construction data, homebuilder software, and residential real estate marketplaces, for $800 million in cash. The deal, announced on Thursday, is expected to close in the second half of 2026 and will be accretive to adjusted earnings per share in its first full year. Zonda […] This story continues at The Next Web
MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost
Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level intelligence across a range of modalities, including text, coding, and video (through its Hailuo model series) — often under permissive, enterprise-friendly, standard open source licenses. Now, MiniMax is again raising the eyebrows of AI power users and developers around the world by releasing a ne
ElevenLabs is bringing Stan Lee back from the dead with AI voice cloning and digital cameos
ElevenLabs has struck a deal with Stan Lee Universe to add Stan Lee’s voice and likeness to its platform, making the late Marvel co-creator the latest deceased cultural icon to be digitally resurrected by AI. The partnership puts Lee’s voice on the ElevenLabs Iconic Marketplace for commercial licensing and on the Eleven Reader app, where fans […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google appeals search monopoly ruling, says it won business ‘fair and square’
Google officially filed its appeal of the federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing the decision "crashed" through legal guardrails. "Google just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square," it writes in its legal filing. Google had already said it would appeal the ruling, which includes both the August 2024 decision about its […]
UK gets a fresh new unicorn as beauty and wellness platform Fresha lands €68.9 million from KKR
Fresha, a London-based AI-powered marketplace and business management platform for the beauty and wellness industry, has announced a €68.9 million ($80 million) primary growth investment from funds managed by KKR, a global investment firm. This deal values Fresha at over €861.9 million ($1 billion) and brings Fresha’s total capital raised to €245.5 million ($285 million). […] The post UK gets a fresh new unicorn as beauty and wellness platform Fresha lands €68.9 million from KKR appeared first o
Goodbye home screen: How NEED is turning Telegram into a digital marketplace
Nobody gets excited about downloading a new app anymore. The little ritual, tap the store, wait for the icon, set up an account, trust it with a credit card, has turned into friction most people just avoid. So they stop downloading. Instead, they gravitate toward places where things just work without asking for another piece […] This story continues at The Next Web
HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes
The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from “pay and chase” to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched an artificial intelligence initiative aimed at detecting fraud and waste across federal health programmes, building on a strategy first outlined in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1 billion valuation with KKR backing
Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha says it has raised $80 million investment from KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth fund, KKR's growth equity arm.
Creators Miss Out on AI Agentic Economy, Says Parallel CEO
Parallel, a web API purpose-built for AI, is launching 'Index', a new marketplace that pays publishers and data providers based on how much their content helps an AI agent complete a task. Parallel founder and CEO Parag Agrawal, also the former CEO of Twitter, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)