When ByteDance officially launched TikTok Shop in the U.S. back in 2023, it went on a hiring spree, poaching dozens of Amazon workers to its Bellevue, Washington offices, which were conveniently located a few blocks from Amazon headquarters. By the end of 2024, TikTok...

Cloudflare is experimenting with a new “pay-per-crawl” tool that allows content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. The feature is currently in beta with a small number of publishers and content creators, who are each able to set their...

Last week I reported per Reuters that TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S., internally known as “M2,” with plans to launch to app stores on September 5th, according to unnamed TikTok employees. Users would eventually have to download the...

This is the first year that Amazon ran a 4 day Prime Day event, and there were rumors circulating around the Internet after a Bloomberg report last week that sales were down 41% on the first day year-over-year. But… the rumors weren't true. They were based on data...

X CEO Linda Yaccarino resigned last Tuesday, following two turbulent years of trying to positively spin Elon Musk's antics and belligerent behavior. Musk originally recruited Yaccarino in 2023 from NBCUniversal to mend fractured ties with advertisers like Apple and...

OpenAI is close to releasing its long anticipated AI-powered web browser that will challenge Google Chrome's estimated 68% market share, according to three Reuters sources. The browser, which is expected to launch in the coming weeks, aims to use AI to fundamentally...

Amazon is working on a secret project codenamed Starfish that aims to make it the best source of product information for “all products worldwide,” whether or not they are sold on Amazon marketplaces, according to documents obtained by Business Insider. The document...

The click-to-cancel rule has been cancelled faster than I can cancel a WP Engine subscription! Last October I reported that the FTC adopted a ‘click-to-cancel' rule that would require businesses to make it just as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up for...

OpenAI introduced a new tool allowing retailers to create AI-powered shopping assistants in Shopify with just a few clicks. Using the Storefront Managed Compute Platform (MCP) and the OpenAI Responses API, developers can build agents that can: Search products Answer...

Last week Bloomberg reported that Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon.com after a disagreement over unauthorized sales, which resulted in Amazon missing out on the recent debut of Nintendo's Switch 2. The article said that Nintendo had noticed that third-party...

Meta announced several updates to its messaging and advertising offerings at its global “Conversations” conference in Miami on Tuesday. 1) Centralized Ad Creation – Brands can now use the same creative, flows, and budgets to setup campaigns across WhatsApp, Facebook,...

President Trump said on Friday that the U.S. “pretty much has a deal” for an American company to acquire the U.S. branch of TikTok and that he'll be restarting talks with China this week to approve it. Trump said via Air Force One: “We’re going to start Monday or...

The battle between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is heating up. It seems that Sam Altman is getting the fight that Elon Musk desired — only it's happening in the office where it belongs.  Quick recap of recent events: Last month Meta launched its...

OpenAI is expanding into high-ticket consulting, offering AI customization services starting at $10M to large companies and government agencies. Through a team of “forward deployed engineers,” OpenAI is offering to help clients fine-tune GPT-4o using proprietary data...

Google introduced Offerwall, a new tool that lets publishers offer readers alternative ways to access content and new ways for publishers to monetize their content, beyond traditional impression-based advertising or affiliate marketing. Google wrote:  “For years, our...

As part of the package introduced as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” the U.S. will repeal the de minimis exemption allowing imports under $800 to enter the country duty and tax free on July 1, 2027. President Trump already ended the exemption for imports from China...