E-Commerce

South Korea creates $445M bailout fund after payment glitch trips up e-commerce giant

Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors

Software30 Jul 2024 | 9

Group of 91 nations agree to continue not taxing cross-border data movement – for now

Promote free use of government data, privacy, canning spam, and more

Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 10

Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC

Read the unredacted complaint against Photoshop giant and its software plans

Applications25 Jul 2024 | 38

TikTok's Asian e-commerce haul quadrupled in a single year

Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations

Off-Prem17 Jul 2024 | 1

Kindle sputters out: Amazon's e-readers couldn't download content for a short time

Updated Support line reports 'high volume of contacts' about the problem

Personal Tech05 Jul 2024 | 26

Tencent ponders banning infomercials hosted by 'virtual humans' on its flagship video service

Beijing's interest in generative AI has its limits

AI + ML18 Jun 2024 |

Feds sue Adobe and execs for stinging subscribers with 'hidden' cancellation fees

Graphic design giant slammed for using graphic design to bury T&Cs

Applications17 Jun 2024 | 24

Beijing wants more outfits like Temu teeming around the world

Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad

Public Sector12 Jun 2024 | 14

IT infrastructure scared away potential buyers of struggling e-commerce site

Whatever gear storied cycling site Wiggle used didn't propel it to a successful sale after the biz hit bumps

CxO31 May 2024 | 42

Amazon Prime Air delivery drones allowed off line-of-sight leash

Sky shipping can now go beyond visual range of operators – starting in Texas and then maybe airspace near you

Personal Tech30 May 2024 | 7

Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart

Invests $350 million in Flipkart

Channel27 May 2024 | 5

What do Europeans, Americans and Australians have in common? Scammed $50M by fake e-stores

BogusBazaar ripped off shoppers and scraped card details, but not in China

Cyber-crime08 May 2024 | 10

Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says

Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect

Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8

Pandabuy confirms crooks nabbed data on 1.3M punters

Nothing says 'sorry' like 10 percent off shipping for a month

Cyber-crime02 Apr 2024 |

Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns

E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit

Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 | 58

Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limb

Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan

Off-Prem27 Mar 2024 |

South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China

Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too

Public Sector13 Mar 2024 |

Cisco is a fashion retailer now, with a spring collection to prove it

Promises quarterly lookbooks of branded tat, powered by branded kit

Offbeat12 Mar 2024 | 19

Alibaba Cloud posts modest growth, mostly thanks to other Alibaba business units

Customers from beyond the Chinese giant are being let go if they've signed for low-margin contracts

Off-Prem08 Feb 2024 |

China’s e-commerce players commit to broaden overseas

If all goes to plan, more Chinese goods will flow into the global market

Off-Prem15 Dec 2023 | 6

ByteDance slides around Indonesian social commerce ban with $1.5 billion buy

Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community

Legal12 Dec 2023 |

OpenCart owner turns air blue after researcher discloses serious vuln

Web storefront maker fixed the flaw, but not before blasting infoseccer

Patches24 Nov 2023 | 48

China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com

5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile

Channel13 Nov 2023 | 6

Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy

Smaller, quieter, and expected to deliver millions of packages in coming years

Science19 Oct 2023 | 52

Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce

Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet

Legal28 Sep 2023 | 4

Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up

It's not hip to be this Square

Personal Tech11 Sep 2023 | 8

Uncle Sam cracks down on faked reviews and bad influencers

Big $50,000 fines for misleading posts... unless it's political, natch

Personal Tech30 Jun 2023 | 21

Google uses India to test ‘deliver to the house near the post office’ feature

Ads and search giant also open sources offensive stereotype database, and gives Amazon a poke

Software29 Jun 2023 | 16

Amazon a prime target of warehouse law protecting bathroom breaks

Glad these lawmakers didn't bottle it

On-Prem18 May 2023 | 31

Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced?

Comment All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe

Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 37

Shopify sees $1.5B loss turn into $68M profit, celebrates by firing 20% of staff

Thanks for your service, now push off

Personal Tech04 May 2023 | 4

SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up

Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint

Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 18

The most bizarre online replacement items in your delivered shopping?

A consumer campaign group's food hall of shame: sticky tape instead of loo rolls, dog chews for chicken breasts

Offbeat27 Mar 2023 | 100

Google suspends top Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo

Alleges it’s infected with malware – but not the version in its own digital tat bazaar

Security21 Mar 2023 | 4

You're Shipt outta luck: App sued for treating delivery workers as contractors

'No, no, they're shoppers, not employees' ain't gonna fly with DC AG

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 47

EU companies claim Google still abusing its Shopping power

Search giant's 'Shopping Units need to go,' say coalition of 43 online comparison tools

Legal17 Oct 2022 | 10

PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for 'misinformation' wasn't a great idea

It'll just go back to randomly shutting down accounts

Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 85

Amazon halts work on ‘Scout’ delivery-bot that delivered parcels no faster than humans

Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street

AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 62

WordPress-powered sites backdoored after FishPig suffers supply chain attack

And two other security snafus in this web publishing world

Patches15 Sep 2022 | 18

Microsoft to stop accepting checks from partners

Maybe it's putting the savings into discounts for Windows Server and M365 it's told the channel to sell?

Software06 Sep 2022 | 44

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