Amazon suspended drone deliveries in Texas and Arizona following a crash of two of its models in rainy weather at a testing facility in Pendleton, Oregon. In a previously unreported December incident, two MK30 drones crashed during flights at an airport Amazon uses...

From Feb 18th, Klaviyo announced that it will be enforcing “profile compliance” on legacy accounts — which means it will be billing customers based on total active profiles in their Klaviyo account, not just contacts they e-mail. Klaviyo will also be automatically...

commercetools announced Instore, a new application that brings its composable commerce capabilities into physical stores. With the addition, the platform now lets enterprise retailers power their online and offline shopping experiences with a single platform. Key...

Walmart revealed its plans for an updated look to its brand that will roll out on its website and mobile app later this month. It's 4,600 US stores will get refreshed over time. The company noted key features of the brand’s refresh: The wordmark is inspired by Sam...

Elon Musk confirmed that his team is looking into bringing back Vine, the six-second video app that Twitter acquired in 2012 before it officially launched, and then subsequently shutdown in 2017 because Twitter historically has quit everything too early. Musk...

Walmart launched Zepeto's first-ever e-commerce experience for physical goods. Zepeto, if you're unfamiliar, is a digital avatar creation platform that allows users to create and share virtual experiences using digital representations of themselves. Now Zepeto's 20M...

Ahead of today's presidential inauguration, incoming first couple Donald and Melania Trump launched a pair of meme coins that are already worth billions of dollars in market cap. Both coins are trading on the Solana blockchain. On Friday, Donald Trump launched $TRUMP...

On Saturday night, the US TikTok users (along with US citizens living outside the country like myself) woke up to a message from TikTok informing them that the app was no long available. The message read:  “Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now. A law banning TikTok...

Amidst all the drama surrounding a potential ban in the US, TikTok is still moving full steam ahead. The company released its annual What's Next 2025 report sharing insights about top trends and strategies that we're going to see on its platform this year. Funny...

On Friday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether or not to temporarily block the law requiring TikTok to divest to a US company or face a nationwide ban, marking a final chance for the company to make its case. TikTok argued during the hearing:  If...

The EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection regulations. The court determined that the Commission transferred the citizen's personal data to the US without...

Best Buy is planning to launch a new third-party marketplace in the US in mid-2025, allowing brands to directly sell their products to Best Buy's customers (similar to how Amazon, Walmart, and other marketplaces allow third-party sellers).  If you've been in the...

eBay partnered up with Meta to enable eBay listings to appear on Facebook Marketplace in the US, Germany, and France. Yay, just what everyone always wanted… eBay listings polluting Facebook Marketplace! The move comes in response to the European Union's Nov 2024...

I'll start out by saying that reporting on WordPress / Automattic / Matt Mullenweg these past few months has brought me no joy. WordPress has had a huge impact on my professional career during the past two decades, and I'm grateful for it and the community that built...

Meta is ending fact-checking on its platforms, and the world is freaking out as if fact-checking actually worked.  Mark Zuckerberg even admits that it was a flawed system. He said:  “I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better. I think Community...