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.

The Era of Guessing What’s on the Shelf Is Over
The Era of Guessing What’s on the Shelf Is Over
June 04, 2026  |  Retail

Walmart’s artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant Sparky has doubled its weekly active users in a single quarter. That’s according to a PYMNTS report in May,...

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Pinterest and AWS Sign $4 Billion Deal to Power Visual Search
Pinterest and AWS Sign $4 Billion Deal to Power Visual Search
June 04, 2026  |  Partnerships

Pinterest has signed a $4 billion cloud services agreement with Amazon Web Services stretching through 2031, the largest infrastructure commitment the visual discovery company has...

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Google Wallet Moves Directly Into Retail Checkout Pages
Google Wallet Moves Directly Into Retail Checkout Pages
June 04, 2026  |  Mobile

Google expanded the capabilities of Google Pay to include direct checkout, a new experience that brings payment options from a customer’s Google Wallet to a...

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Amazon Wins When Retail Checkout Breaks
Amazon Wins When Retail Checkout Breaks
June 04, 2026  |  Retail

When a millennial advertising executive spends 30 minutes on a Sunday morning browsing face serums on a beauty website, she expects that once she lands...

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Shopify Resolves 2-Hour Outage Impacting Storefronts and Checkouts
Shopify Resolves 2-Hour Outage Impacting Storefronts and Checkouts
June 03, 2026  |  eCommerce

Shopify has resolved a two-hour outage that started Wednesday morning (June 3). The company announced the problem at 9:27 a.m. EDT, saying on its Status...

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Amazon Moves Prime Day to June as Consumers Cut Back
Amazon Moves Prime Day to June as Consumers Cut Back
June 02, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon’s Prime Day hasn’t been confined to a single day for some time now. That multi-day trend will continue this year, though the shopping event...

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Affirm Launches UK BNPL Partnership With Stripe
Affirm Launches UK BNPL Partnership With Stripe
June 02, 2026  |  BNPL

Pay later provider Affirm has launched an expanded partnership with payments infrastructure company Stripe. The collaboration is designed to bring Affirm’s solutions to U.K.-based Stripe merchants for the...

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Amazon Invested $20 Billion in UK in 2025
Amazon Invested $20 Billion in UK in 2025
June 01, 2026  |  Retail

Last June, Amazon said it would invest 40 billion pounds (about $53.9 billion) in the U.K. from 2025-2027. One year later, the company said it...

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Walmart Marks Millionth Drone Drop-Off Amid Increased Delivery Focus
Walmart Marks Millionth Drone Drop-Off Amid Increased Delivery Focus
June 01, 2026  |  Retail

Walmart says its drones have now made more than 1 million deliveries. “What started as a pilot just a few years ago has officially taken off,...

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