A video: “How Facebook Marketplace Amassed More Shoppers Than Amazon”

  Facebook’s Marketplace Growth Massive User Base: Since its launch in 2016, Facebook Marketplace has attracted 1.1 billion users across 70 countries, making it one of the largest platforms for secondhand sales, alongside eBay and Craigslist. Engagement Strategy: Despite declining usage among younger demographics, Marketplace remains a key engagement tool, with many users logging in … Read more

Microsoft and other US tech firms lobbied the European Commission to hide data center emissions!

I first saw the news at the Guardian and asked Perplexity to do a roundup. Here is the issue: What the investigation actually found An investigation by Investigate Europe, published with the Guardian and others, shows that Microsoft and the lobby group DigitalEurope (representing Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, etc.) proposed language to classify all individual … Read more