ecommerce

eCommerce (also known as electronic commerce) is a process of buying and selling of products or services, making money transfers, and transferring data over an electronic medium (Internet). This network allows people to do business with no barrier of distance and time.

Amazon Lets Users Text Alexa to Get Shopping Help
Amazon Lets Users Text Alexa to Get Shopping Help
November 06, 2026  |  eCommerce

Amazon will begin giving customers the option to text its Alexa for Shopping tool for assistance in their product searches. “Select customers can now text...

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Fraud Costs Financial Institutions More Than Money
Fraud Costs Financial Institutions More Than Money
November 06, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

A card issuer can give an artificial intelligence shopping assistant permission to buy a customer’s groceries without giving it a card number it could use...

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Visa Finds AI Models Fail 43% of Shopping Test Runs
Visa Finds AI Models Fail 43% of Shopping Test Runs
November 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Visa found that when 22 artificial intelligence models from 12 labs were put through realistic shopping scenarios, 57.2% of the test runs passed and 42.8%...

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Amazon Raises Seller Fees as Walmart Courts Holiday Shoppers
Amazon Raises Seller Fees as Walmart Courts Holiday Shoppers
November 05, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon will charge marketplace sellers in the United States an average of 19 cents more per item to fulfill orders in 2027, according to a...

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Walmart Adds 300 Sites to Drone Delivery Network
Walmart Adds 300 Sites to Drone Delivery Network
November 05, 2026  |  Delivery

Walmart agreed to a new multiyear partnership with Zipline to add at least 300 drone delivery sites around the United States, according to a Thursday...

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Firmly Lands $15 Million as Investors Back the Merchant Side of Agentic Commerce
Firmly Lands $15 Million as Investors Back the Merchant Side of Agentic Commerce
November 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence agents are becoming a new place to shop faster than merchants can plug into them. Analysts expect AI-driven traffic to retail sites in...

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MercadoLibre Expands AI War Chest by $30 Million in Q3
MercadoLibre Expands AI War Chest by $30 Million in Q3
November 04, 2026  |  Earnings

E-commerce and FinTech company MercadoLibre increased its investment in artificial intelligence by $30 million quarter over quarter as it builds its work around AI, the...

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Amazon Offers Merchants New Connection to Alexa for Shopping
Amazon Offers Merchants New Connection to Alexa for Shopping
November 04, 2026  |  eCommerce

Amazon is launching an extension of its Shop Director program to help merchants connect with Alexa for Shopping. The Shop Direct Merchant Workspace, announced Wednesday (Nov. 4), lets...

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Revolve Reports Breach of Fashion Retail Platform
Revolve Reports Breach of Fashion Retail Platform
November 03, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Online fashion retailer Revolve is the latest company to suffer a data breach, Security Week reported Monday (Nov. 2). Revolve notified at least 200,000 people...

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