Amazon removes Nazi and white supremacist listings

Amazon’s policy prohibits the sale of racist and ‘hatred-glorifying’ goods, but a couple of watchdog groups recently found Nazi and white supremacist products sold on the platform. Those products include jewelry adorned with Nazi swastikas and even a children’s book normalizing racist beliefs written by George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party. Now […]

Airbnb faces possible fines over unregistered listings in Paris

PARIS (Reuters) – The municipality of Paris has asked a French court to urgently fine Airbnb and two other small companies for unauthorized short-term letting, said an official with the city’s administration. A hearing at a Paris court is scheduled for June 12. Founded in 2008 in San Francisco, Airbnb matches people wishing to rent […]

2019 Genesis G70 will get manual transmission, EPA listings reveal

Ever since we learned that Genesis would have a manual transmission option available for the four-cylinder G70, we’ve been hoping that the company would confirm its availability for the U.S. And that time has finally come. It started when Car and Driver discovered the EPA listed a manual G70 and its fuel economy along with […]

Airbnb has removed listings in Beijing and canceled bookings during China’s annual parliament because it wants to be ‘good neighbors’

WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images Airbnb has cancelled bookings and removed listings in Beijing until March 30. The company confirmed to Business Insider it made the decision due to “external factors” and that it always tries to be “good neighbors.” The removal of listings seems to coincide with China’s annual legislature meeting, which takes place in Beijing […]

Italy’s new savings accounts fuel a boom in stockmarket listings

ITALY seems an unlikely place to be enjoying a boom in new listings on the stockmarket. It is full of family-run small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that mostly rely for their finance on banks; and Italy’s banks are notorious for the bad debts still lingering on their balance-sheets. But Borsa Italiana, Milan’s stock exchange, has […]

Can Facebook Compete with Craigslist for Used-Car Listings?

– Craigslist is not only the used-car capital of the United States, it’s also one of the largest resale marketplaces for nearly everything else. Craigslist has become what the classified section of the newspaper used to be, only better. It’s a free market that is portable and can be read and shared with others who […]

Google’s crackdown causes fake Maps listings to drop by 70 percent since 2015

Google Maps is getting more accurate. The internet giant said it has taken a number of steps over the past few years to reduce fake results popping up in Google Maps — and they appear to be working. The number of fake listings has fallen by a whopping 85 percent, and those fake listings, Google says, are […]