Latest E-commerce News & Updates
Last updated October 26, 2026
OpenAI adds ChatGPT parental controls and casts the chatbot as a teen study tool as Canada weighs chatbot bans for under-16s
Uber offers $14.8B to acquire Berlin’s Delivery Hero, extending its food-delivery reach to 99 markets against DoorDash
Over 160 U.S. enterprise software startups are under pressure to sell as VC money shifts to AI, according to The Information
eBay and Etsy set a July 30 closing for the $1.2B Depop deal and raise eBay’s walk-away fee to $158M under a revised pact
Flex raises a $70M Series B1 led by Ryan Smith’s Halo Fund to launch Flex Global on stablecoin rails across 100+ countries
TikTok faces a class action alleging a June 2026 data breach exposed names, emails, and phone numbers of 2.4 billion users
OpenAI adds a $70 ChatGPT basketball and a branded merch line to its store days after launching its $230 Codex keyboard
U.S. importers have clawed back $71B in tariff refunds but PepsiCo and McCormick are using theirs to offset Iran-war inflation
Wonder closes a $650M Series D at a $9B pre-money valuation to grow its multi-brand kitchens, marketplace, and robotics
Moonshot AI and Agricultural Bank of China launch an AI-native credit card as Amex adds a $300 ChatGPT credit to business cards
TikTok Shop tests a managed-services program taking over most seller operations for a $10K fee and a 10-20% cut of sales
Anthropic pushes states toward tougher AI safety laws with third-party audits, calling its 2025 transparency rules outdated
Warren Buffett reveals he drove Berkshire’s $31B Alphabet bet and says AI giants are trapped in a capex race they can’t avoid
Tailored Brands, owner of Men’s Wearhouse, files for an IPO under ticker MENW and plans 500-plus new stores in a decade
Google search users press Judge Rita Lin to keep their antitrust suit alive over its default-search deals with Apple and Android
Australia Post launches a Big Boss Energy campaign turning post offices into promotional hubs for small e-commerce sellers
Instacart acquires Arpalus, a computer-vision shelf-intelligence startup, to sharpen real-time inventory accuracy across grocery
Billionaire Gina Rinehart and thousands of Australians lose money on SpaceX as the stock closes below its IPO price for the first time
Meta hires senior AWS executive Dave Brown for its data-center build-out as Zuckerberg weighs launching a cloud business
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