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...
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...
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...
Carvana shares climbed as much as 9.3% Wednesday (Aug. 19), after dropping 14% over the previous two days, when a report said billionaire Mark Walter wouldn’t be able to immediately sell his stake in the online car retailer, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Walter, the CEO of...
For every $100 Americans spent at retailers in the second quarter, $17.10 went through eCommerce, extending a gradual but persistent redirection of retail spending toward digital channels. The 17.1% share reported for the second quarter of 2026 by the U.S. Census Bureau in its “Quarterly...
Brunello Cucinelli replaced its traditional eCommerce site on Jan. 21 with a platform that builds a different shopping experience for each visitor rather than routing everyone through the same fixed pages and menus. The system, called Callimacus, was developed by Solomei AI, the Italian luxury...
The RealReal has spent the past year rebuilding its core operations around artificial intelligence, and growth has been accelerating alongside it. The company’s intake system, Athena, now automates authentication and cataloging steps that once required manual attribution, and a new pricing algorithm evaluates more than...