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Snoop Dogg Starts Selling On Facebook

By TechTaffy Desk

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MarketPage has launched as a marketplace solution for Facebook Pages and hip-hop superstar Snoop Dogg is the first to use it. The Facebook app MarketPage is created by a San Francisco-based startup called Tinypay. 

MarketPage allows anyone to have a shop on their Facebook Page and invite others to sell there. Snoop Dogg announced his partnership with the start-up while performing at SXSW. Snoop will be the first to have his merchandise for sale on his “Snooper market.”

[Image Courtesy: Snoop Dogg]

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