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Last updated October 6, 2026
Facebook’s average traffic CPC fell 14.29% to $0.60 in 2026 while click-through rate rose to 1.93%, per WordStream by LocaliQ
Tillo acquires Italian gift card company Amilon to form a group expecting to process over £3 billion of gift cards in 2026
Amazon suspends its use of cargo carrier 21 Air after the Miami crash of an Amazon-branded 767 killed five on the ground
Anthropic tells shareholders it expects a second straight quarter of positive adjusted operating income ahead of its IPO
Amazon employee dies after collapsing on the job at a Goodyear, Arizona warehouse, with the cause of death undetermined
Tabby raises $233 million at a $6.5 billion valuation as the Saudi BNPL firm expands into consumer and business lending
Amazon workers on SNAP and Medicaid nearly tripled since 2020 while the company’s annual profit climbed to $77.7 billion
Jolly is acquiring a16z-backed agentic checkout company Rye to widen how frontline workers redeem the incentives they earn
Musk drops Apple from his antitrust suit over the iPhone ChatGPT deal but keeps the monopoly claims against OpenAI alive
OpenAI quietly buys smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging in a deal valuing the Apple-founded company above $300 million
Dario Amodei wants to slow down AI development for “safety,” but I don’t buy it
OpenAI gives the middle finger to Adobe, one of its earliest partners
Amazon Prime Video lets you shop items from the exact scene you’re watching, but it’s missing one big thing
Shopify acquired Tailwind Labs. Why would it buy an open-source CSS framework?
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg put on a forced leave of absence, then miraculously returns days later
Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that handles tasks on your behalf. Here’s everything it can do
Amazon puts its advertisers in ChatGPT, but still not its catalog
EcommerceBytes shuts down after 27 years, six weeks after its publishers settled a $55.7M cyberstalking suit with eBay
Amazon expects to handle 88.7% of its own deliveries by 2029
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