Latest E-commerce News & Updates
Last updated October 27, 2026
Google publishes a holiday When to Buy Guide showing which product categories hit their best prices before or after Black Friday
TikTok reverses its ad ban on the “Musk” documentary two days later, calling the suspension of Bleecker Street’s account an error
Google loses its Supreme Court bid to overturn a USPTO rule that shields patents older than six years from validity reviews
Mercari offers free shipping on $50+ orders and bundles through January 4 and brings back Fashion Exchange for holiday returns
Citi hires Google engineering director Sebastian Gnagnarella to lead agentic AI development as head of applied AI and agents
WhatsApp help pages exposed hidden instructions telling Meta’s support chatbot not to point users to privacy regulators
Google search clicks cost 4% more in Q3 after a year of flat prices that followed Amazon’s Shopping ad exit, per Tinuiti
Olo launches a consumer ordering app to rival DoorDash and Uber Eats, with in-store menu prices and a flat 5% customer fee
Judge gives final approval to Google’s $68 million Google Assistant recording settlement, with lawyers taking a third of it
US sanctions Lu Qi’s MiraclePlus, formerly YC China, for seed-funding a startup run by a convicted Google AI secrets thief
Fragment raises a $12M Series A led by FirstMark for its software that lets AI agents run billing, payments and accounting
Amazon plans to invest €16B in Germany in 2027, with €4.8B of it going to expand its AWS Frankfurt cloud and AI region
Meta launches Ads Super Burst, letting brands book 3- to 24-hour Facebook and Instagram windows that can lock out category rivals
TikTok employees warned executives about minors in sexual Live streams and age-check loopholes, court depositions show
One in five US adults regularly gets news on TikTok, flat from 2025 but up from 3% in 2020, according to Pew Research Center
Walmart bundles Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus into one $120 membership, undercutting Amazon Prime and Costco’s top tier
Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic another $45B in computing power from a second building at its West Virginia data center
eBay’s November privacy update expands disclosures on AI training and automated enforcement and drops its notification promise
Google starts testing ads in AI Mode for Personal Intelligence users, using insights from connected apps like Gmail to pick ads
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