TikTok will cut all fees for Chinese merchants joining its global online Store. TikTok has already rolled out full-fledged marketplaces inside its main app in UK, Saudi Arabia and SE Asia. US is next. via @technology.

If you think TikTok is just a social media video platform, think again. It is becoming a powerful commerce engine. TikTok Shop is growing to become a competitive threat to existing commerce platforms.

EU Parliament approves comprehensive battery market regulation, which could help lay the foundation for a circular #platform for used batteries- @ElectriveCom:

Really looking forward to session at the MIT Platform Strategy Summit on the future of the creator economy. @mit_ide.

Moderators of hundreds of Reddit subreddits, closed off access to their groups on Monday to protest the company’s plan to charge for access to the data that outside developers need to run apps on the site. Why? See: .#platforms.

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McFadyen Digital is launching a New Circular Platform Multi-Client Study. Join this client-directed research initiative to explore the potential of #platforms and #marketplaces to achieve #CircularEconomy. See: .#Circularity23

RT @ntwk_platforms: We've started #TheNTWKSummit 🔥 The stage is set ablaze as the esteemed speakers, @marina_planas, Anna Noakes Schulze, a….

eBay is expanding its recommerce capabilities with an investment in Volte. It’s is now one of the largest designer rental marketplaces globally with more than 70,000 dresses listed and 300,000 monthly active users. .#circularplatforms.#strategy.

RT @mcfadyendigital: Our team is excited for next week's #TheNTWKSummit23 in Barcelona. This Summit covers various topics related to platfo….

RT @DyanFinkhousen: Brilliant #EcosystemicFutures podcast: Platforms to Power A Circular Economy with.@pevans_c @marcoannunziata @nasa @sho….

It is hard to get a vast majority of people to agree on something in a survey but in this case they have. 90% of global shoppers report shunning brands after poor online experience

RT @ntwk_platforms: @VIAEmpresa Thanks to give visibility of such important event! @pevans_c , @marina_planas and Anna Noakes Schulze are….

RT @luciahdez3: Two weeks ago I released the “A Review of the Platform Economy” Report, 50 pages containing a comprehensive review of the e….

Airbnb has paused onboarding new experiences raising questions about its long-term strategy. In addition to stopping the onboarding of any new experiences, it has also removed experiences from the Airbnb homepage. @Skift .#platform .#strategy.

How will #platforms leverage generative AI? Here is one example from @Instacart. Instant meal planning with grocery orders. We will see more and more platforms adopting these types of AI force multipliers. #platform .#strategy.

Zalando Q1 revenue growth boosted by its online shopping club. Lounge by @Zalando offers customers limited-time offers and discounts on premium brands, contributed a 33% revenue increase to the retailer's Offprice segment. .#platform .#strategy.

China has an $87 billion beauty and personal care industry. What happens to the largely plastic containers -- they end up in landfills. So, Alibaba and L’Oréal are teaming up to bring the circular economy to China’s beauty industry. .#circularplatform.

Marketplaces must build seller-centric capabilities to ensure sustainable growth and success. In this article, I look at job searches active that Amazon, eBay and six other platforms to staff their seller organizations. See: #platform .#strategy

"We [@PalantirTech] are working on and will be releasing shortly our new Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), which combines the machine learning technologies that we have developed for industrial and military partners with the latest large language models. " .#platform .#ai