E-Commerce

Meta picks India for WhatsApp's first e-commerce service

Indian residents will be able to buy their groceries through the chat app – for as long as the government is happy with the idea

Personal Tech30 Aug 2022 | 7

Microsoft joins India's monopoly-busting e-commerce multi-mart

The Open Network for Digital Commerce could hardly ask for a more credible participant

Software11 Aug 2022 | 3

Alibaba's e-commerce arm counts carbon to encourage you to buy more stuff

Encourages 'eco friendly' consumer choices in exchange for discounts

Software09 Aug 2022 | 6

China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba

Starts chasing industrial digitization as its next big opportunity

Off-Prem05 Aug 2022 | 4

Threat of cross-border data tariffs looms over WTO

Some countries call for moratorium to be lifted, tech industry not keen on potential costs

Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 21

Facebook rated least safe e-commerce option in government rankings

Singapore's safety scheme measures scam-combatting capability

Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 2

Indian giant Tata fluffs its lines as it takes on Amazon and Walmart

Shouldn't a company from the same stable as Tata Consulting Services do better with a day one traffic flood?

Software11 Apr 2022 | 7

China tells big tech to reveal some customers' income

Livestreamed infomercials are huge, but some creators aren't paying tax

Legal31 Mar 2022 | 13

Dems propose privacy-respecting digital dollar

ECASH Act calls for Treasury to develop electronic currency, no blockchain required

Personal Tech28 Mar 2022 | 43

Google opens Play Store to third party payment systems – starting with Spotify

Did lessons learned from South Korea make it all less scary?

Personal Tech25 Mar 2022 | 8

Thailand bans use of crypto for payments

Regulators worry about financial stability if binary Baht spread

Software24 Mar 2022 | 8

Adobe warns of second critical security hole in Adobe Commerce, Magento

As sanctioned Russian infosec firm says it has working exploit code

Security18 Feb 2022 | 19

Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops

Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance'

Off-Prem06 Dec 2021 | 6

European Cybercrime Centre confident it's kicked credit card crims – again

Poised to reveal similar haul to 2020's €40M loss prevention total

Security02 Dec 2021 | 4

Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs

Report claims documents show employees abusing access

Legal13 Oct 2021 | 14

California Governor signs bill protecting warehouse workers from unsafe quotas

AB 701 takes aim at Amazon and other warehouse operators that prioritize productivity over health

Legal23 Sep 2021 | 14

Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time

Unexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically

Personal Tech23 Sep 2021 | 17

BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on ecommerce and selling services across borders

Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers

Channel06 Sep 2021 | 4

Spring tears down math geek t-shirt listing because it dared to mention the trademarked word 'zeta'

Data scientist told he faces ban, biz insists otherwise after pushback

Personal Tech01 Sep 2021 | 168

eBay ex-security boss sent down for 18 months for cyber-stalking, witness tampering

Four others at online tat bazaar admit trying to silence newsletter couple, two senior execs fight charges

Security28 Jul 2021 | 30

India takes on e-commerce giants with plan for a national platform

Hopes to integrate closed platforms into giant national marketplace and make the lot open-source

Off-Prem08 Jul 2021 | 2

India seeks ban on e-commerce sites discounting own-brand goods

Crackdown on global giants comes as UN criticises content takedown rules

Legal22 Jun 2021 | 6

UK government may force online retailers to pick up e-waste from consumers

Future punters won't need to comb landfill for their bitcoin, we suppose

Legal01 Mar 2021 | 51

Dell online store charges 16 million dollars for new laptop with paint job

Video Black is free on the Inspiron 15. ‘Soft Mint’ is a very expensive option

Personal Tech18 Nov 2020 | 60

BRICS bloc – home to 40 percent of humanity – wants to drive global e-commerce consumer protection rules

China has the giant e-tailers, India has the customers, Brazil, Russia and South Africa are aboard

Legal18 Nov 2020 | 6

Amazon blasts past estimates, triples profits to $6.2bn but says COVID will cost it $4bn over the next quarter

Bezos predicts a very Merry Christmas

On-Prem29 Oct 2020 | 18

Facebook is leaky, creepy, and trashy. Now it wants to host some of your customer data

Reveals hosting service for WhatsApp Business API and gives its partners reasons to be fearful

SaaS23 Oct 2020 | 22

Russian hacker selling how-to vid on exploiting unsupported Magento installations to skim credit card details for $5,000

Nearly 2,000 e-commerce shops pwned over weekend so it's time to migrate

Security15 Sep 2020 | 18

Amazon's coronavirus symptoms: Swelling of the profit, large sales deposits, insatiable demand

When the economy's tanking, who ya gonna call? Jeff Bezos!

SaaS31 Jul 2020 | 9

India drops the bar on e-commerce seller's listings: You want to sell it? Tell us where it came from from then

Inform people in case they go Chinese and ignore self-sufficiency drive

Legal21 Jul 2020 | 17

Asian trade bloc creates annual regional online shopping festival as plague-popping economic prod

ASEAN to throw big sale on August 8th – a super-lucky day according to Chinese numerology

Personal Tech17 Jul 2020 | 1

Alibaba to serve up Kentucky Fried smart speaker, with a $1.4bn side of e-commerce integration

Hey Tmall Genie, spike my cholesterol, then coalesce my web empire with voice commands

Personal Tech21 May 2020 | 4

ASEAN economic bloc calls for regional fake news crushing co-operation

And help to take small business digital because of y’know that virus thing we keep hearing about

Legal15 Apr 2020 |

Google extends e-commerce platform to help people in India find nearby food during lockdown

Google Pay is about to get really useful in India's biggest cities

Software14 Apr 2020 | 7

The '$4.4m a year' bug: Chipotle online orders swallowed by JavaScript credit-card form blunder

Taco titan's e-ordering fails when browser autofill takes over

Software20 Sep 2019 | 52

Cyber-IOU notes. Voucher hell on wheels. However you want to define Facebook's Libra, the most ridiculous part is its privacy promise

Comment Digital currency tokens coming to WhatsApp, Messenger next year

Science18 Jun 2019 | 126

Amazon agrees to stop selling toxic jewelry, school supplies to kids, coughs up some couch change ($700,000)

Probe found dangerous levels of lead, cadmium in stuff sold via web souk

Personal Tech10 May 2019 | 56

Another way to look at Amazon's counterfeit-busting Project Zero: Making merchants cough up protection money

Analysis It's up to you to stop fake stuff going on sale in our cyber-bazaar, says multibillion-dollar biz

Personal Tech28 Feb 2019 | 30

US Supreme Court blocks internet's escape from state sales taxes

5-4 decision brings ecommerce in line with physical shops

Legal21 Jun 2018 | 78

Adobe acquires Magento to go B2B2C and beyond

Experience Cloud to add commerce and content management facilities

On-Prem22 May 2018 | 6

Happy having Amazon tiptoe into your house? Why not the car, then? In-trunk delivery – what could go wrong?

New Bezos scheme opens up vehicles as drop-off points

Personal Tech24 Apr 2018 | 52

Cisco to trial direct online sales

Australia the 'vanguard', perhaps with new smallbiz products to make it sensible

Networks08 Mar 2018 | 6

UK web grocer Ocado takes £500k hit after robo-warehouse tech splurge

£36m sunk on developing proprietary software

On-Prem06 Feb 2018 | 18

Amazon manages to find a mere sliver of profit – just $2bn – out of $61bn in end-of-year sales

AWS continues to rake in billions, too

SaaS02 Feb 2018 | 16

Proposed Brit law to ban b**tards brandishing bots to bulk-buy tickets

Touts using software to snaffle seats would face unlimited fine

On-Prem03 Jan 2018 | 113

EU toys with Pandora's Box if it reopens e-commerce directive

Exclusive Mother of all bunfights beckons

Legal08 Dec 2017 | 1

Knock, knock? Oh, no one there? No problem, Amazon will let itself in via your IoT smart lock

1-Click king's one-click entry

Edge + IoT25 Oct 2017 | 128

Web crash and pricing errors hit Argos

Routine maintenance was just routine, not connected says retailer

On-Prem14 Sep 2017 | 32

China's cyber court opens for business; a gavel-free zone?

Focus is to be specifically on online cases

Legal21 Aug 2017 | 2

Tesco Online IT meltdown: Fails to deliver thousands of grocery orders

Shoppers across UK forced to leave the house

On-Prem20 Jun 2017 | 81

You'll soon be buying bulgur wheat salad* from Amazon, after it swallowed Whole Foods

13.7 billion Bezos bucks buys luxury retailer

On-Prem16 Jun 2017 | 59

Hotel guest goes broke after booking software gremlin makes her pay for strangers' rooms

Updated 'Anomaly' drained my bank account, techie complains

Software06 Jun 2017 | 132

Walmart workers invited to shuttle packages

Details scant on insurance, mileage costs, and depreciation

On-Prem03 Jun 2017 | 71

Billion-dollar skincare biz scrubs IT makeover, spends days in a daze

Rodan + Fields discovers you can't put lipstick on this pig of a tech setup

On-Prem02 May 2017 | 13

Try to sell stuff through Facebook Marketplace and get locked out for 72 hours – nice one, Zuck

Bug of the week, perhaps?

Personal Tech26 Apr 2017 | 15

Dodgy Dutch developer built backdoors into thousands of sites

Update Then hoovered out users' personal data, stole identities galore and spent up big

Security17 Jan 2017 | 45