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.

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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Amazon Lets Merchants Add Free Prime Delivery to Their Own Websites
Amazon Lets Merchants Add Free Prime Delivery to Their Own Websites
September 24, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon is making fast, free Prime delivery available beyond Amazon.com, giving merchants another way to use the company’s logistics network to compete for online shoppers,...

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Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon
Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon
September 24, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon spent decades trying to make itself the place where merchants sell. Its next act may be considerably more ambitious: becoming the place where merchants...

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Amazon Moves to Power the Agents That Power Commerce
Amazon Moves to Power the Agents That Power Commerce
September 23, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s next artificial intelligence push for merchants is less about giving sellers better answers than reducing how often they need to ask questions at all....

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Crocs Puts One AI Agent in Charge of Sales and Service
Crocs Puts One AI Agent in Charge of Sales and Service
September 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A shopper looking for a birthday gift for a nephew opens a chat on Crocs.com, asks for ideas, checks whether a size will fit and...

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Shopify Brings Shop Pay Checkout Solution to Meta’s Muse AI Agent
Shopify Brings Shop Pay Checkout Solution to Meta’s Muse AI Agent
September 22, 2026  |  eCommerce

Shopify and Meta have partnered to extend the shopping capabilities of Meta’s Muse artificial intelligence assistant, executives said Monday (Sept. 21). Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke...

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Meta Adds PayPal to Muse AI Assistant for Global Checkout
Meta Adds PayPal to Muse AI Assistant for Global Checkout
September 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

PayPal partnered with Meta on agentic shopping, PayPal said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) post on social platform X. “We’re excited to partner with [Meta]...

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Banks Call for Audit Trail From AI Shopping Instructions to Payment Outcome
Banks Call for Audit Trail From AI Shopping Instructions to Payment Outcome
September 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A group of six banks is calling for artificial intelligence shopping transactions to carry an auditable record of what a customer asked an agent to...

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ECB Brings the Digital Euro to Checkout While the US Sits It Out
ECB Brings the Digital Euro to Checkout While the US Sits It Out
September 22, 2026  |  CBDC

The digital euro is moving out of central bank planning and into checkout, with implications for merchants in the United States and payments providers. The...

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