Latest E-commerce News & Updates
Last updated July 11, 2026
PayTabs Group acquires UAE contactless payment platform TAPn’GO to expand its MENA merchant ecosystem
Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network follow-up “The Social Reckoning” gets a teaser with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg
European regulators were largely left out of Anthropic’s Mythos rollout as the company briefed only U.S. partners and officials
RedNote is opening U.S. offices and launching a shopping portal a year after its viral TikTok refugee moment faded
TikTok Shop is preparing to launch in Poland, the Netherlands, and Belgium based on job listings and seller page infrastructure
Elon Musk appears to have quietly joined TikTok and Instagram ahead of SpaceX’s IPO
X cuts payments to content aggregators by 60% and will penalize accounts that use “🚨BREAKING” on every post
OpenAI’s revenue chief says Microsoft has “limited our ability” to reach enterprise clients and touts Amazon as the path forward
Google hires TikTok’s former North America ads lead Khartoon Weiss as VP of US mid-market sales and commerce
Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was targeted in a drive-by shooting two days after the Molotov cocktail attack
Coinbase’s VP of international policy Tom Duff Gordon is leaving to join OpenAI as head of EMEA Policy
Meta is projected to surpass Google in global ad revenue for the first time in 2026, according to Emarketer
Amazon allegedly told warehouse workers to keep working as a coworker received CPR on the floor, hiding the death for hours
Anthropic is briefing the U.S. government on Claude Mythos despite its ongoing supply-chain risk dispute with the Pentagon
TikTok integrates ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 video generation model into its Symphony ad creation toolkit
eBay will make auction sales final starting May 13, removing the option for buyers to cancel winning bids
OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance in an acquihire, shutting down the app by April 20
Indian quick commerce startup Zepto begins pre-IPO roadshows targeting a June-July listing at up to $1.4B in fundraising
Sam Altman Molotov cocktail attacker identified as 20-year-old Texas man who had a list of AI executives and their addresses
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