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 Alphabet Soup of Agentic Standards: A Vocab Playbook for Merchants and PSPs
The Alphabet Soup of Agentic Standards: A Vocab Playbook for Merchants and PSPs
October 01, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The biggest mistake merchants could make in agentic commerce may be waiting for one protocol to win. There probably won’t be one. The emerging infrastructure...

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Amazon and Walmart Want Merchants’ Software Budgets
Amazon and Walmart Want Merchants’ Software Budgets
October 01, 2026  |  Retail

The retail landscape used to have four primary levers: share of shoppers, share of sellers, share of advertising dollars and share of wallet. However, artificial...

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DoorDash Debuts Returns Program Amid New Retail Partnerships
DoorDash Debuts Returns Program Amid New Retail Partnerships
September 30, 2026  |  eCommerce

DoorDash launched a returns program along with an expansion of its retail marketplace, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 30) press release. The expansion involves partnerships...

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AliExpress Pilots Free VIP Program to Lock in Top Spenders
AliExpress Pilots Free VIP Program to Lock in Top Spenders
September 30, 2026  |  eCommerce

Alibaba Group’s international eCommerce site, AliExpress, is testing a VIP program called Elite, The Information reported Wednesday (Sept. 30), citing an unnamed source. AliExpress is...

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Fed’s Waller Says AI Shopping Changes What Banks Need to Authenticate
Fed’s Waller Says AI Shopping Changes What Banks Need to Authenticate
September 30, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The first rule of online payments is to prove that the person trying to pay is allowed to do so. Artificial intelligence is forcing banks...

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Shopify Opens Store Checkouts to AI Agents
Shopify Opens Store Checkouts to AI Agents
September 28, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Shopify now enables browser agents to check out on the websites of all its eligible merchants, Gil Greenberg, staff product manager, checkout at Shopify, wrote...

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Walmart CEO Says No to Personalized Pricing
Walmart CEO Says No to Personalized Pricing
September 27, 2026  |  Retail

Walmart’s CEO says the retailer has no plans to use customer data to set personalized prices. John Furner issued a letter to customers Friday (Sept....

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Amazon Adds Walmart Orders to Its View of Sellers
Amazon Adds Walmart Orders to Its View of Sellers
September 25, 2026  |  Working Capital

Merchant lending has traditionally been built around the sales a platform can see. Multichannel commerce is widening that view. A small- to medium-sized business (SMB)...

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51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
September 25, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud budgets are moving in two different directions. Fifty-one percent of global eCommerce merchants expect spending on fraud-management staff to remain flat or decline, while...

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