Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
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Live commerce is converging with TikTok-style feeds—real-time recommendations and search are now table stakes, not a nice-to-have. If you run any marketplace with session-based behavior, you should be benchmarking your ranking latency and personalization depth against livestream standards, not static e‑commerce.
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