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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 ...
AI Shifts How Consumers Shop and How Brands Manage Data
AI has a profound impact on how customers find, research, and buy products. It gives brands another avenue for customers ...
PayPal Is Changing the Game in Advertising With a New ID Solution
The digital advertising industry has long had a problem with identity. Many solutions built to help with this issue use ...
EU Sellers Broke the Record for Amazon Sales in 2025
Amazon recently revealed that EU sellers on the platform set a new record for sales in 2025, surpassing €40 billion. ...
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 ...
