Articles by: Ivana Soldat
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Ivana Soldat
Ivana writes about what’s actually happening in ecommerce right now, from major platform updates to the trends on how people shop online.
Focused on verified industry developments, she covers marketplace dynamics, DTC and omnichannel growth, conversion and performance strategies, retail media, and shifts in consumer behavior across leading ecommerce platforms and emerging commerce technologies.
BigCommerce Adds AI Discovery Tools and Checkout Speed Boost
BigCommerce parent company Commerce announced a suite of platform updates at Commerce Live 2026 that push merchant product catalogs directly ...
WooCommerce Launches Health Check Tool for Subscription Merchants
WooCommerce has released a diagnostic tool designed to help merchants identify revenue leaks and configuration problems in their subscription businesses. ...
Shein and Temu Drain €2.4bn From German Economy Annually
Chinese discount platforms Shein and Temu are extracting €2.4 billion in economic value from Germany each year through a combination ...
Amazon Reports 15% Unit Growth in Q1, Third-Party Sellers Hit 60% Share
Amazon posted 15% year-over-year growth in worldwide paid units during the first quarter of 2026, the strongest volume increase the ...
OpenAI shifts to $8 tier as Plus subscriptions plummet 80%
OpenAI is projecting a dramatic restructuring of its consumer subscription base in 2026, with its lower-priced ChatGPT Go tier expected ...
Square Launches Managerbot AI Assistant to Millions of U.S. Sellers in Open Beta
Square has opened Managerbot, an AI-powered business operations assistant, to a significantly broader group of US sellers through an open ...
Google and Mastercard Hand AI Payment Protocols to FIDO Alliance
Google and Mastercard have transferred their competing AI agent payment frameworks to the FIDO Alliance, the standards body best known ...
Ahold Delhaize USA Partners With SmartCommerce to Speed the Path to Purchase
In ecommerce, there’s often a major gap between engagement and purchase. A customer may see a post or ad about ...
Amazon Adds Voice AI Shopping Assistant to Millions of Product Pages
Amazon has activated a voice-based AI shopping assistant across millions of product pages on its mobile app, enabling shoppers to ...
The API Fragility: What the April 2026 eBay Outage Means for Multi-Channel Sellers
Modern ecommerce infrastructure, while designed for seamless global transactions, harbors a critical vulnerability: its profound dependence on Application Programming Interfaces ...
