James Chen 
GameStop shareholders approved a large increase in authorized stock on July 7, giving Ryan Cohen the equity ammunition to press a $55.5 billion bid for eBay that the target board has already rejected. The vote signals GameStop intends to take its unsolicited offer straight to eBay shareholders.
Three signals observed in recent weeks (a CEO split, a Turkish banking license, and an 86% stake) point to Kaspi accelerating a super-app build at Hepsiburada. The likeliest window for the first regulated fintech proof points is H2 2026, before the Q3 earnings call.
Mobile World Investment Corporation has spun off its electronics chain Dien May Xanh in an IPO that raised about 505 million dollars. The 93 percent-subscribed offering values the retailer near 3.4 billion dollars ahead of an August debut on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange.
Three fresh regulatory signals point to the EU consolidating a two-track marketplace regime, binding commitments plus a customs cost stack, on China-founded platforms. The pattern suggests Shein and Temu face binding commitments or a second penalty before year-end 2026.
The June tape, a loaded fintech and commerce pipeline, and a disciplined aftermarket point to a fresh cluster of US IPOs pricing before the end of Q3 2026. Expect the cohort to skew toward payments and infrastructure names over consumer DTC brands.
Britain’s largest retailers cut close to 18,000 jobs over the past year, led by Tesco, according to a Bloomberg analysis of annual reports. Retailers blame higher employer national insurance and rising minimum wage costs.
Belgian shoppers spent a record €18.3bn online in 2025, up 5.4%, according to the Becom Market Monitor. Yet domestic webshops grew only 3.43%, barely above inflation, as Chinese platforms and foreign marketplaces absorbed most of the new spending.
Shopify Markets lets one store sell into dozens of countries, but the defaults leave conversions on the table. A walkthrough of the currency, duty, and domain decisions that make cross-border orders clear.
Composable commerce sounds like a slide. In practice it is a short list of services a retail team buys, wires together, and pays to run. Here is what the stacks actually contain, what each layer costs, and how to sequence the build so you ship before the budget runs out.
OpenCart in 2026 is cheap to start and expensive to maintain. An honest look at where it fits, where it fails, and when to migrate off.