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Pin and shop on Pinterest with 'buyable pins'

Users interested to buy items they see posted on Pinterest will be directed to outside websites

Published Wed, Jun 3, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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PINTEREST has said that it is diving into e-commerce with "pins" that let people buy items that they like at the popular online bulletin board.

"Pinterest is already designed to work like a catalogue, so we wanted to find a way to weave buyable pins into the pages people already know," co-founder and chief executive Ben Silbermann said during an event at the company's headquarters in San Francisco.

"Buyable pins are a si…

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Pin and shop on Pinterest with 'buyable pins'

Consumer & Healthcare

Marina Bay Sands Q1 profit surges 51.5% to US$597 million on tourism boom

Swiss watch exports plunge as China and Hong Kong demand dries up

Cutting the cord?: Events leading up to Cordlife’s MOH suspension and arrests of its directors, ex-group CEO

Billionaires selling cheap stuff get richer from inflation pain

Amazon to push cashierless shopping tech into more third-party stores, while backing off itself

Japan’s Uniqlo opens Rome store as part of European expansion

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