Latest E-commerce News & Updates
Last updated September 28, 2026
Teads sues Google over Last Look and Project Bernanke auction practices it says still run after Google said it retired them
No security backdoor has been publicly documented in a major Chinese AI model even as US officials cite backdoors as a risk
SpaceX buying Tesla would settle the intercompany conflicts Musk creates by moving staff, chips, and Grok models between the two
Public Knowledge asks the appeals court to force a Chrome divestiture and ban Google’s search payments to Apple and Mozilla
Pie takes an undisclosed investment from Amex Ventures to sell local merchants on AI search visibility and customer acquisition
TikTok kept 10% of US users out of its 2021 filter bubble safeguard as a control group to measure the cost to engagement
OpenAI publishes messages and emails it says undercut Apple’s trade secrets suit and its request for a preliminary injunction
RepSpark raises a $22 million strategic investment from Headlight Partners to expand its B2B wholesale platform beyond golf
Meta makes its AI Developer Assistant the primary support path for developers instead of documentation and support tickets
Small business sales in the U.S. grow on bigger tickets rather than more customers as restaurant transactions fall 3.6%
Anthropic hires former Carnegie Endowment president and California Supreme Court justice Tino Cuéllar to run global affairs
eBay draws downgrades from Wells Fargo and Citizens ahead of Wednesday’s earnings over the cost of growing Depop against Vinted
Jeff Bezos files to sell 15 million Amazon shares worth about $4.1 billion a day after the stock closes at a record high
Perplexity can run its Comet AI shopping agent on Amazon again after an appeals court overturns the injunction against it
Zepto pauses its India IPO and sells shares privately after struggling to convince public-market investors of its valuation
Shedd acquires garage sale marketplace Firesale in an all-stock deal and appoints its founder as chief operating officer
eBay closes its $1.4B Depop acquisition and says the resale marketplace will keep its own brand, platform, and culture
eBay promotes its AI listing tools as leveling the field for small sellers while the flagship version stays closed to them
ADA acquires Algonomy and folds the retail decisioning company built out of RichRelevance and Manthan under its own brand
Subscribe to the ecommerce news that matters
Our weekly newsletter is read religiously by 20,000+ e-commerce professionals.