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.

Atlanta Fed: Small Firms Less Likely to Pass Through Cost Increases
Atlanta Fed: Small Firms Less Likely to Pass Through Cost Increases
April 23, 2025  |  SMBs

Businesses said in April that they expect their unit costs to increase by 2.8% over the next year, a figure that is 0.3 percentage points...

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Sand, Soccer and Smartphones: Why Brazil Leads the Mobile Shopping Revolution
Sand, Soccer and Smartphones: Why Brazil Leads the Mobile Shopping Revolution
April 21, 2025  |  Mobile Commerce

Sandy beaches and soccer aren’t Brazil’s only calling cards. The South American nation is far ahead of some more developed countries in mobile commerce, with...

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Shopify to Face Data Privacy Class Action After Court Ruling
Shopify to Face Data Privacy Class Action After Court Ruling
April 21, 2025  |  eCommerce

Shopify is facing a data privacy class action lawsuit in the U.S. The proposed class action had been dismissed by a lower court judge and...

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Temu Reportedly Cuts Back on Paid Ads After Tariff Price Hikes
Temu Reportedly Cuts Back on Paid Ads After Tariff Price Hikes
April 20, 2025  |  eCommerce

Last week, popular eCommerce retailers Shein and Temu announced plans for tariff-related price hikes. So far, it’s not clear if these increases — scheduled to...

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Researchers Unveil 3D Tech That Lets Users ‘Touch’ Virtual Items
Researchers Unveil 3D Tech That Lets Users ‘Touch’ Virtual Items
April 18, 2025  |  Technology

A research team in Spain has created a novel technology that will let users “touch” and “manipulate” virtual objects — potentially redefining how people shop...

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Inside Amazon and Walmart’s Billion-Dollar Race to Win the Last Mile
Inside Amazon and Walmart’s Billion-Dollar Race to Win the Last Mile
April 18, 2025  |  Retail

In environments like today’s, reactive operations might as well be useless ones. By the time they take effect, it is often already too late. As the...

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Worldpay and FIS Deals Shake Up Merchant Services in Echo of 2019’s M&A
Worldpay and FIS Deals Shake Up Merchant Services in Echo of 2019’s M&A
April 17, 2025  |  Business

In the FinTech space, 2025 is shaping up to feel a bit like 2019. This time around, all eyes are on embedded payments, in a...

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Global Payments, FIS Upend FinTech With Dual $13.5 Billion, $6.6 Billion Deals
Global Payments, FIS Upend FinTech With Dual $13.5 Billion, $6.6 Billion Deals
April 17, 2025  |  Acquisitions

Global Payments set the FinTech sector abuzz early Thursday (April 17) with a pair of sweeping transactions. It sold its issuer solutions business to FIS...

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Shein, Temu Set to Raise Prices as ‘De Minimis’ Exemption Is Undone
Shein, Temu Set to Raise Prices as ‘De Minimis’ Exemption Is Undone
April 16, 2025  |  eCommerce

eCommerce retailers Shein and Temu, which have exploded in popularity across the U.S. thanks to their cheap items, have sent letters to customers warning of...

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