Latest E-commerce News & Updates
Last updated August 17, 2026
Trucking fintech Mudflap acquired capacity management platform Parade to connect its 515,000-driver network with freight brokers
eBay is laying off its remaining Web3 and KnownOrigin team in Manchester as it exits its NFT bet and pivots to AI and live shopping
Former Amazon employees filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the company systematically underpaid women by misclassifying their jobs
OpenAI’s Sora lead Bill Peebles and VP of AI for Science Kevin Weil are both leaving as the company refocuses on coding and enterprise
Small cities now account for over 60% of India’s e-commerce orders as the market grows toward $250B by 2030
UPS has deployed RFID tracking across its entire U.S. network, automatically sensing packages without manual scans
Analysts estimate less than 10% of Shopify’s revenue comes from enterprise clients despite years of courting big brands
A class-action lawsuit accuses Amazon of intentionally degrading early Fire TV Stick devices to push consumers into buying new ones
Meta is testing a Threads web redesign that finally adds direct messages and better navigation nearly a year after the app got DMs
Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger resigned from Figma’s board after reports that Anthropic’s next model will include competing design tools
Google blocked a record 8.3 billion ads in 2025, up from 5.1 billion the year before, crediting its Gemini AI models for the jump
Google’s AI Mode now opens web pages side-by-side with search results and lets users pull context from open Chrome tabs
Senator Elizabeth Warren sent Elon Musk a letter demanding answers about X Money’s consumer and national security risks
Solidroad raises $25M Series A led by Hedosophia to scale its AI-powered customer conversation quality assurance platform
Shein and Temu face class-action lawsuits demanding they refund customers for price hikes tied to tariffs the Supreme Court struck down
Odeko acquires Boston distributor Shirazi Distributing and launches in Nashville to expand its coffee shop supply network
Anthropic will give UK banks access to its Mythos cybersecurity model within the week following talks with the FCA and NCSC
Anthropic is expanding its London office to 158,000 square feet for up to 800 people as European demand for Claude grows
Google appoints former THG Beauty CMO Pete Metcalfe as its new director of retail for the UK and Ireland
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