4+ hour, 39+ min ago  (858+ words) At Etsy, Zo" Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace's AI ranking systems. With her new startup, Sequen, she aims to bring her and her co-founders' years…...

4+ hour, 38+ min ago  (528+ words) Facebook announced on Wednesday that it's launching "Creator Fast Track," a new program designed to help creators grow on Facebook with guaranteed pay and increased content reach. The social network also shared that it paid creators nearly $3 billion through its…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (599+ words) Shopify is preparing for the transformation of a lifetime, according to its president, Harley Finklestein. Speaking at this year's Upfront Summit in Los Angeles, the longtime e-commerce veteran spoke about how the company is going all in on agentic shopping....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (469+ words) Amazon is expanding access to a program called'Shop Direct that lets U.S. customers discover and buy products'not sold in its own online store. The retail giant on Wednesday said it will now support third-party product feeds, which merchants use to provide…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (163+ words) In its original complaint, the FTC was joined by Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin. The lawsuit alleged that Walmart, since 2021, had made false representations about Spark driver earnings. Other issues had…...

1+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (543+ words) That was partly why I was confused to see yet another marketing AI startup entering the fray: San Francisco-based Kana just came out of stealth with a suite of AI agents that can do data analysis, audience targeting, campaign management,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (838+ words) More than 28 million e-commerce stores exist around the world. While current inflation has prompted some restraint, consumers are expected to step up purchases in the coming months, and global business-to-consumer e-commerce revenue is poised to reach $5.5 trillion by 2027. This highlights…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (531+ words) Mark Zuckerberg says Meta users will start to see new AI models and products from the company in a matter of months. "In 2025, we rebuilt the foundations of our AI program," Zuckerberg said on an investor call Wednesday, referring to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (960+ words) Phia's team is locked in " literally. The startup is laser-focused on building an AI shopping agent, but also, after a snowstorm barreled through New York City, Phia founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni can't leave their respective apartments. So it's…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1643+ words) Twelve-year-old Milan-based tech conglomerate Bending Spoons has quietly become one of the tech industry's most prolific buyers, now owning Meetup, WeTransfer and many others, but it remains largely unknown to the general public. So what exactly is Bending Spoons? Despite…...