Coverage of global e-commerce marketplaces, online shopping platforms, and cross-border selling.
Temu must file a remediation action plan with the European Commission by August 28, 2026, following the EUR 200 million Digital Services Act fine over its systemic risk assessment. An inadequate plan opens the door to daily penalty payments.
Whatnot, the livestream shopping platform, has raised $545 million in a Series G round that values the company at $20 billion, roughly double its worth …
Nike will close more than 1,000 online storefronts run by partners across Chinese marketplaces and route sales through official channels only, effective January. The reset trades near-term volume in its third-largest market for tighter control of price and brand.
The European Commission has fined AliExpress €550 million (about $629 million) for breaching the Digital Services Act, its largest penalty yet for failing to control the sale of illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products. Alibaba has signalled it will appeal, setting up a landmark test of Europe’s platform rulebook.
A 40-engineer agentic commerce team, a new standards-council seat, and June’s maturing payment rails point the same way: Amazon likely ships a first external-agent commerce path before the 2026 holidays, base case in Q4.
Caraway, the ceramic nonstick cookware brand that built its name selling directly to shoppers online, is now stocking more than 500 Walmart stores. The rollout, …
The SAP Hybris deadline that enterprise retail has circled for two years finally has teeth. On July 31, 2026, less than two weeks from today, …
If you have been hunting for the Amazon GOAT sale date, here is the twist that trips up most shoppers: Amazon does not run a …
The Shopify Editions Summer 26 release landed on June 17, 2026, and it is Shopify’s biggest drop of the year: more than 150 updates shipped …
TikTok Shop’s June four-market launch and its Sell Across Europe tool signal a pivot from a per-country app to a unified pan-European marketplace. The pattern points to the Shop Tab reaching all ten EU markets before the 2026 holiday quarter, with a GMV milestone in the same window.