Last updated May 20, 2026
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein told the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles that agentic shopping represents the biggest transformation in the company's history, but that initial rollout will be...
Last week I reported that Amazon won a temporary federal injunction against Perplexity to block Comet browser from scraping its e-commerce website after Judge Chesney ruled that the retailer...
Google updated its Universal Commerce Protocol, the agentic commerce standard it launched in January, with three new capabilities including: A Cart option that lets AI agents add multiple items from...
Amazon introduced 1-hour and 3-hour delivery options to over 2,000 cities and towns in the US. The delivery option is available on more than 90,000 everyday essential products like pantry items,...
Hi Shopifreaks Before we get started, I just wanted to say thank you for your readership. Many of you have been with me since the very beginning when I launched Shopifreaks in January 2021 -- which...
Google updated its Universal Commerce Protocol, the agentic commerce standard it launched in January with partners including Walmart, Target, Shopify, Etsy, and Wayfair, adding three new...
Shopify Credit began collecting remittances through Shopify Payments for Texas merchants using the "Pay over Time from Sales" repayment method, starting January 12, 2026, in response to new legal...
Shopify added two new "Get data" actions to Flow, its workflow automation tool, allowing merchants to retrieve market and blog article information directly within their automations. The Get Market...
Walmart has secured two U.S. patents in 2026 for machine learning-powered pricing tools, including an automated markdown system for its e-commerce platform and a demand forecasting tool that...
Shopify has integrated USDC directly into its core payments stack, allowing merchants to accept the stablecoin at checkout alongside credit cards without adding new providers or changing existing...
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