Latest E-commerce News & Updates
Last updated October 27, 2026
Amazon shoppers push back on order emails that name only product categories, which a support rep ties to package theft risk
Commerce Secretary Lutnick says the Trump administration trusts Anthropic again after months of fighting over AI safeguards
eBay ends private seller fees on its French and Italian sites and moves the cost to buyers through a new Buyer Protection fee
Delivery Hero’s boards tell shareholders to accept Uber’s €41.50-a-share takeover offer, calling the price fair and adequate
COFE Tech closes a pre-IPO round at a $178M valuation co-led by Aramco’s Wa’ed Ventures as it targets a 2029 Saudi listing
Anthropic launches a commerce agent blueprint with working shopping and merchant agents for retail, travel, and ticketing
GoPro agrees to sell 90% of itself to Starman Optical for $285M and turn its imaging patents toward AI data centers and defense
Pentagon AI policy chief Emil Michael sold his Perplexity stake in June for $5M to $25M months after cashing out of xAI
SHOPLINE selects Splitit as its card-linked installment partner and embeds pay-over-time on existing cards into its platform
US consumer spending grew only slightly in August as households turned price sensitive while luxury sales held up, per the Fed
House Republicans introduce a CFPB rewrite raising the bank supervision threshold to $30B and narrowing its nonbank authority
Google avoids a forced sale of its AdX ad exchange as Judge Brinkema orders behavioral fixes instead in the DOJ ad tech case
ChatGPT now draws its shopping results only from brand-submitted product feeds, dropping the Google Shopping data it once used
Bank of Canada holds its benchmark rate at 2.25% as new US tariffs and the Iran war raise the risk of higher inflation
UPS reorganizes its leadership around a new global operating model after finishing its phase-out of low-margin Amazon volume
Sephora launches on TikTok Shop September 19 with a monthly Drop Shop that puts partner brand products on the platform first
SpaceX replaces AI data center leaders with rocket executives after reliability problems at its Tennessee and Mississippi sites
Google’s AI Mode prices identical products 21.6% higher than standard search on the same shopping queries, per Productrise
Descartes acquires 3PL warehouse management platform Extensiv for $120 million, its second logistics software deal in 8 days
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