Facebook opens up its Craigslist-like section to retailers

Facebook is trying to figure out what people want from Marketplace, so it’s going to add a bunch of new products from real vendors in order to suss that out. “We’ll kind of look and see what’s popular, what people want to engage with,” Deb Liu, Facebook’s head of Marketplace, told Recode, “So if people […]

Facebook expands its Craigslist-like Marketplace into 17 European markets

Facebook has announced that it’s expanding its buying-and-selling Marketplace service to 17 new markets in Europe. Marketplace first landed last October in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and New Zealand, and was quietly added to Canada, Chile, and Mexico shortly after. From today, it will be arriving in: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, […]