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 Trims Corporate eCommerce Jobs in Latest Downsizing Wave

Amazon Trims Corporate eCommerce Jobs in Latest Downsizing Wave
Amazon Trims Corporate eCommerce Jobs in Latest Downsizing Wave
October 08, 2026  |  Personnel

Amazon cut fewer than 1,000 white-collar jobs in the unit that oversees its main eCommerce website, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. 7), citing an unnamed source. The company made...

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Walmart Says It Prices ‘Products, Not People’ as Amazon Rolls Out Deals
Walmart Says It Prices ‘Products, Not People’ as Amazon Rolls Out Deals
October 08, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon spent the week telling shoppers how much they could save. Walmart spent part of it explaining why consumers shouldn’t worry about how their prices...

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Mastercard Bets Shoppers Will Trust AI Agents One Purchase at a Time
Mastercard Bets Shoppers Will Trust AI Agents One Purchase at a Time
October 08, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Pablo Fourez Consumers won’t hand artificial intelligence agents unrestricted purchasing authority on day one, but repeated successful transactions...

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ShipStation Delivers Walmart Shipping Discounts to Marketplace Sellers
ShipStation Delivers Walmart Shipping Discounts to Marketplace Sellers
October 06, 2026  |  Shipping

Walmart Marketplace sellers can now directly access Walmart-negotiated shipping rates within ShipStation’s intelligent shipping and logistics platform, ShipStation said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. This capability is enabled by ShipStation’s new Ship with...

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TikTok Kicks Off Agentic Commerce Push With AI Shopping Assistant
TikTok Kicks Off Agentic Commerce Push With AI Shopping Assistant
October 05, 2026  |  Social Commerce

TikTok has introduced an in-app checkout solution and an artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant, saying in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release that these are the first of several...

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AI Agents Knock. Retailers Decide How Wide to Open the Door.
AI Agents Knock. Retailers Decide How Wide to Open the Door.
October 05, 2026  |  Retail

Retailers are drawing different lines on how far artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agents can go on their sites. Amazon blocks outside agents while it builds...

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Constructor Teams With Stripe to Debut Agentic Checkout Tool
Constructor Teams With Stripe to Debut Agentic Checkout Tool
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Product discovery platform Constructor has introduced a new Stripe-integrated agentic commerce offering. Agentic Checkout, announced in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release, is designed to allow both human shoppers...

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EMVCo Takes On Proof of Permission for AI Payments
EMVCo Takes On Proof of Permission for AI Payments
October 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence agents add information to a card payment that merchants, issuers and networks don’t routinely exchange today: what the consumer authorized the agent to...

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