Adobe expects US holiday discounts to hit 30%
Adobe forecasts that traffic from AI chat and browser services to US retail sites will grow 130 percent year on…
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Erene Araojo Amazon will let brands pay to shape its AI answers
Amazon has announced an ad format called Branded Conversations, which lets a brand shape what its shopping assistant says when…
Best Buy opens a TikTok Shop in late October
Best Buy will open a TikTok Shop storefront in late October with nearly 10,000 products, including items from Oura, Bose,…
90% of EU online spend abroad went to 3 apps
European consumers spent 55.1 billion euros online with stores outside the European Union in 2025, and 49.7 billion euros of…
UK tribunal lets £289m Apple Amazon claim run
The Competition Appeal Tribunal certified part of a collective claim against Apple and Amazon on 28 September, clearing for trial…
EU parcel fee starts 1 November, amount unset
From November, every low-value parcel entering the European Union carries a second public charge on top of the 3 euro…
Amazon opens Seller Central to its rivals
Amazon has put tools inside Seller Central that let a seller connect an eBay, Shopify, TikTok or Walmart account, link…
Amazon blocked Meta’s agent, Shopify did not
Two of the largest commerce platforms in the world took opposite decisions about the same piece of software this month,…
Temu ranked first in four European markets
Temu was the largest online retailer in Finland, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia in 2025, according to ECDB, and second in…
European e-commerce grew 4% after inflation
European e-commerce turnover reached 911 billion euros in 2025, up from 842 billion. That is 7 percent growth on paper…