social commerce

Facebook Contributes To $125M Funding For India Marketplace Meesho
Facebook Contributes To $125M Funding For India Marketplace Meesho
August 12, 2019  |  Investments

Bangalore-based social commerce startup Meesho has raised $125 million to expand its eCommerce business in India, TechCrunch reported on Monday (Aug. 12). Naspers led the...

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Luxury Fashion Brands Outspend Smaller Rivals On Social Media
Luxury Fashion Brands Outspend Smaller Rivals On Social Media
June 07, 2019  |  Retail

Luxury fashion brands like Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton and Gucci are upping their social media game, especially on Instagram, and pouring real money into efforts...

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Depop Raises $62M To Expand Tech, US Presence
Depop Raises $62M To Expand Tech, US Presence
June 07, 2019  |  Investments

Depop, the U.K. startup that operates an app where individuals sell items on social feeds, has raised $62 million in venture funding. According to a...

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Popular Millennial Site Bleacher Report Dives Deep Into Sports Betting
Popular Millennial Site Bleacher Report Dives Deep Into Sports Betting
May 13, 2019  |  Social Commerce

Bleacher Report, a millennial-focused sports website, has been steadily expanding into the sports betting space, attracting a new generation of gamblers who don’t consider sports...

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Facebook Taps Ex-PayPal Employees For Blockchain Team
Facebook Taps Ex-PayPal Employees For Blockchain Team
May 08, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

Facebook is shoring up its secretive blockchain team with hires from PayPal, according to a report by Bloomberg, and the company might be planning to...

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Instagram’s High-Fashion Fakes Problem
Instagram’s High-Fashion Fakes Problem
May 06, 2019  |  Retail

Instagram has a counterfeit goods problem. That is what the latest data from analytics firm Ghost Data strongly indicated, anyway, as its survey of the site...

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Will Facebook’s Crypto Payments Rails Get A Big Like?
Will Facebook’s Crypto Payments Rails Get A Big Like?
May 06, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

The news last Friday that Facebook has plans to launch its own global crypto-based payments rails is déjà vu all over again. Déjà vu because...

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Facebook Pumps Up Appeal Of Marketplace At F8
Facebook Pumps Up Appeal Of Marketplace At F8
April 30, 2019  |  Facebook

The Facebook Marketplace is growing up. News from the social media’s F8 conference on Tuesday (April 30) said Facebook will soon let Marketplace sellers “ship...

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Facebook Plans Social Shopping Platform
Facebook Plans Social Shopping Platform
April 29, 2019  |  Facebook

After a series of scandals involving privacy violations, allegations of fake news and the discovery that its employees had access to millions of passwords, Facebook...

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