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Americas

eBay

Regulation, Policy & Risk

eBay's $55.7 Million Governance Bill

The settlement turns a campaign against independent critics into a public platform-accountability test.

Google

AI & Agentic Commerce

OpenAI

Global

Why AI Search Needs Four Playbooks

Citation patterns shift by engine and buying stage, punishing brands that chase one-size-fits-all optimization.

Global

Price Rewrites the Ecommerce Conversion Benchmark

Why category economics decide whether a low conversion rate signals friction or normal deliberation

Supermarkets Are Losing The Digital Order

Americas

Walmart

Supermarkets Are Losing The Digital Order

Walmart keeps nearly every eGrocery order first-party as supermarket control slips further toward marketplaces

Americas

Amazon

Logistics & Fulfillment

Other Companies

UPS Proves Volume Is Not the Prize

The carrier cut cheap Amazon parcels, raised guidance and reset the economics of delivery scale

PayPal Turns Checkout Into Identity Infrastructure

Global

Payments & Checkout

Other Companies

PayPal Turns Checkout Into Identity Infrastructure

Slow core growth forces a bet on agentic payments, digital identity and higher-value users

Meta Profitability Needs More Than CPM

Category benchmarks expose a useful ratio—and the economics it still fails to measure

Google

OpenAI

Global

OpenAI's $100B Ads Math Problem

Audience scale is only half the battle; mature search monetization is the harder build.

Americas

Walmart

Logistics & Fulfillment

Walmart Turns Stores Into Drone Nodes

One million deliveries show how proximity can turn urgent orders into a new retail channel.

Michaels Turns Project Ideas Into Baskets

Americas

Google

AI & Agentic Commerce

Other Companies

Michaels Turns Project Ideas Into Baskets

Ask Mike's early conversion result shows why conversational discovery can outperform keyword search for complex shopping missions

Google

AI & Agentic Commerce

Global

Google Makes AI the Search Front Door

Merchants gain visibility while Google keeps more comparison and intent inside its answer layer.

Americas

Payments & Checkout

Other Companies

X Puts a Bank Account Inside the Feed

The US rollout combines deposits, peer-to-peer payments and a Visa card, giving X a new route from attention to financial activity.

Archive

eBay's $55.7 Million Governance Bill

Why AI Search Needs Four Playbooks

Price Rewrites the Ecommerce Conversion Benchmark

Supermarkets Are Losing The Digital Order

UPS Proves Volume Is Not the Prize

PayPal Turns Checkout Into Identity Infrastructure

Meta Profitability Needs More Than CPM

OpenAI's $100B Ads Math Problem

Walmart Turns Stores Into Drone Nodes

Michaels Turns Project Ideas Into Baskets

Google Makes AI the Search Front Door

X Puts a Bank Account Inside the Feed

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Archive

eBay's $55.7 Million Governance Bill

Why AI Search Needs Four Playbooks

Price Rewrites the Ecommerce Conversion Benchmark

Supermarkets Are Losing The Digital Order

UPS Proves Volume Is Not the Prize

PayPal Turns Checkout Into Identity Infrastructure

Meta Profitability Needs More Than CPM

OpenAI's $100B Ads Math Problem

Walmart Turns Stores Into Drone Nodes

Michaels Turns Project Ideas Into Baskets

Google Makes AI the Search Front Door

X Puts a Bank Account Inside the Feed

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MarketMaze

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