Amazon's AI shopping assistant, Alexa for Shopping, can now handle more than 100 new actions such as registries, Subscribe & Save changes and refund checks. Amazon says 400 million customers used it in a year.
eBay's third-quarter GMV rose 15% to $23.2 billion, led by 27% U.S. growth, in the quarter it closed its Depop purchase. It forecast fourth-quarter GMV of $23.7 billion to $24.1 billion.
The European Commission accepted Temu's plan to remedy its Digital Services Act breach on illegal-product risks, setting a four-month implementation window and an independent audit.
Walmart Marketplace may now suspend seller accounts inactive for 455 consecutive days, and sellers can use Walmart Fulfillment Services inventory to fill orders from their Shopify stores.
Disputes over undelivered orders and canceled subscriptions rose to 24.1% of contested chargebacks in Justt's data as fraud claims fell, while Mastercard widens its friendly fraud program.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the vacatur of the Fed's 21-cent debit interchange cap in Corner Post, holding the Fed counted fixed costs the Durbin Amendment excludes, and sent the rule back.
Klarna's new Consumer FX feature lets shoppers buy from Klarna merchants abroad and pay in their own currency with no exchange fee, without merchants adding a new integration.
Microsoft Advertising made its server-side Conversions API generally available and added age and gender targeting to Performance Max, along with a pilot that lets advertisers set rules for AI-written ad copy.
Pinterest made Programmatic Deals generally available in North America, South America and Asia Pacific, letting enterprise advertisers buy its display and video inventory through Magnite and DSPs such as Amazon DVA+.
Google Ads is rolling out channel prioritization and budget allocation for Search, Shopping, Performance Max and Demand Gen, and will change Display Network spend on Search campaigns in February 2027.
ADP lifted its fiscal 2027 revenue and adjusted EPS outlook after first-quarter revenue rose 6% to $5.5 billion, and announced PNC Payroll by ADP for small business banking customers.
Salesforce will pay $47.50 a share in cash for customer engagement platform Braze, about $5.66 billion in enterprise value, and plans to fold it into Marketing Cloud. Closing is set for fiscal 2028.
Notion now gives each Business and Enterprise seat 1,500 Standard and 500 Select AI credits a month. The system is live for new customers; existing workspaces switch on November 2.
Zendesk introduced Employee Service AI Agents and Advanced Action Flows for IT and HR requests, with general availability rolling out from November 3 and extra automated resolutions priced at $0.99 each.
Walmart announced Agent Profiles, an MCP-based Agent Gateway and published terms that let customers' AI assistants shop at Walmart and Sam's Club under spending limits and approval rules.
Google launched Universal Cart in the U.S., a cross-retailer cart in Search, AI Mode and the Gemini app with price alerts, card-perk suggestions and Google Pay checkout built on its Universal Commerce Protocol.
The settings Shopify and Stripe document for collecting sales tax at checkout, from state registrations and tax codes to threshold monitoring, and why registration comes first.
Step-by-step settings for turning on two-step verification in Shopify, WordPress.com with Jetpack for WooCommerce sites, Stripe and PayPal, and what to do when a phone is lost.
How to set up a Google Merchant Center account, verify your store, send product data and switch on free listings so products can appear across Google at no cost.
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