Last updated May 20, 2026
BigCommerce will soon be adding an Open Payment Provider fee ranging from 0.6% to 2%, depending on which plan you're on, to merchants using payment processors not on its embedded provider list,...
Hi Shopifreaks As you're reading this, I'm currently on a plane en route from Cuenca, Ecuador to Chicago, Illinois to attend Commerce Live, the annual BigCommerce event formerly known as BigSummit,...
BigCommerce announced plan and pricing updates effective June 1, 2026, renaming its tiers from Standard, Plus, Pro, and Enterprise to Core, Growth, Scale, and Performance respectively, with base...
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Stripe joined the Universal Commerce Protocol Tech Council, the technical body that steers an open standard governing how AI agents discover products, build...
Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a closed-end fund that began trading on the NYSE in March 2026 under the ticker RVI, announced a $75M investment in OpenAI, making it one of the fund's largest investments...
Hi Shopifreaks Help me out! Next week I'm interviewing Commerce CEO Travis Hess. What should I ask him? Hit reply and let me know what questions I should bring to the table about the future of...
Lovable launched Lovable Payments on April 13, enabling builders to add native monetization to their apps through integrated Stripe, Paddle, or Shopify connections, with support for subscriptions,...
Hi Shopifreaks The biggest news this week -- my daughter turned 3 years old on Sunday! Happy Birthday to Mia! How quickly time flies. It simultaneously feels like Mia just arrived, but also that...
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on Thursday, a nonprofit governance body built around Coinbase's x402 protocol, with backing from Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and...
Latitude, a fintech startup founded by former Stripe, Coinbase, Uber, and Meta employees, raised $8M in a round led by NEA with participation from Lightspeed Faction, Coinbase, Paxos, and Solana...
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