2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (705+ words) For years, the knock on Costco was that its digital experience lagged far behind the e-commerce giants. While Amazon and Walmart poured billions into logistics networks, app development, and same-day delivery infrastructure, the warehouse club seemed content to let its…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (696+ words) Xinli Chemical reported August consolidated revenue of NT$148 million (approximately $4.7 million), up 37.7% month-over-month and 52.26% year-over-year, setting an all-time monthly record. Cumulative revenue for the first eight months reached NT$771 million (approximately $24.4 million), up 11.34% year-over-year, also marking the best performance for…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (284+ words) Caliverse, a subsidiary of South Korea's Lotte Innovate (286940.KS), unveiled its immersive commerce service "Lotte Giants Virtual Styling Shop" on the 10th, aimed at professional baseball fans. The service combines AI-powered virtual models with digital twin technology, allowing fans to virtually…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (327+ words) App user numbers also continued to climb. Last month, Coupang's monthly active users (MAU) reached 35.95 million, up roughly 510,000 from July. That is 1.57 million more than the 34.38 million recorded in October last year, before the data breach. Compared with Naver Plus…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (480+ words) South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed fines exceeding 1.35 trillion won (approximately $999.2 million) in just the first seven months of this year—four times last year's annual total. Two cartel cases alone, involving sugar and flour price-fixing, accounted for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (303+ words) Anthropic is positioning its Claude platform to capture a slice of the coming holiday e-commerce surge, releasing a set of blueprints that let retailers, travel companies, and ticketing platforms build AI shopping and merchant agents. The move, announced Wednesday, comes…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (696+ words) Your AI agent just bought something. You told it to. But how does the merchant know that? How does your bank? And when you look back at the charge three months from now, how do you prove you authorized it…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (816+ words) The most common failure in AI shopping agents isn't that they're too dumb. It's that they assume you're already a search expert. Nidhi Kaushik Vyas, a product lead at Google DeepMind, describes the problem bluntly: most current systems are "wrappers…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (471+ words) The conflict over South Korea's sanctions against Coupang for a data breach is escalating beyond a simple regulatory matter into friction across the broader US-South Korea alliance. Within the US Congress and the White House, warnings are emerging that Washington…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (745+ words) Amazon (AMZN) is spending more money than at any point in its three-decade history, and Wall Street is debating whether the $220 billion capital expenditure program will crush margins or set the stage for the next leg of growth. The stock…...