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Shopify and Meta have partnered to extend the shopping capabilities of Meta’s Muse artificial intelligence assistant, executives said Monday (Sept. 21). Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said in a Monday post on X: “We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable...
Shopify is leveraging agentic artificial intelligence to transform digital commerce discovery, lower startup barriers for small and medium-sized businesses, and reinforce its core payments and checkout infrastructure, executives said Thursday (Sept. 10). Speaking at the Goldman Sachs 2026 Communacopia + Technology conference, Shopify Chief Financial...
Website template business Tailwind Labs has joined Shopify, Tailwind Labs Founder and CEO Adam Wathan said in a Wednesday (Sept. 9) blog post. Tailwind’s framework is installed more than 110 million times per week and styles products like ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, Reddit and Shopify, Wathan...
Latin American eCommerce and FinTech firm MercadoLibre is tapping global debt markets for only the third time, seeking proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Sept. 9), citing unnamed sources. MercadoLibre is offering dollar notes that will mature in 2036 at...
Mastercard launched a partnership with Kenya-based social commerce company Flowcart, according to a Monday (Sept. 7) news release. The collaboration centers on embedding “secure, seamless card payments directly within social and conversational commerce journeys,” the release said. “Social commerce is redefining how consumers discover and...
Watch more: Digital Shift With Seel’s Zack Peng The final-sale dress that looks different at home, the jacket that misses its return deadline and the beach purchase that gets plenty of use before summer ends present versions of the same problem: The shopper owns merchandise...
Social platform X is moving U.S. creator payouts to its own payments service, X Money, as it expands the role of its financial products within the platform. Starting Wednesday (Sep. 2), all payouts to creators in the United States participating in X’s Original Content Rewards...
Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Bots are bad. That, at least, has been digital commerce’s operating assumption since the category’s inception. Automated activity was associated with credential stuffing, scraping, inventory hoarding and fraud. Legitimate customers, it went without saying, were assumed to...
YouTube is integrating Amazon into its creator-driven shopping, potentially accelerating the integration of eCommerce into the videos, feeds and communities where consumers already spend their time digitally. The video sharing site announced Thursday (Aug. 27) that Amazon has joined YouTube’s Shopping Affiliate Program in the...