E-commerce software maker Shopify seems to be benefiting handily from people using AI to search. On the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein said AI has become a “complement to search, rather than a substitute for it,” and had particularly benefited the long tail of e-commerce, including the smaller merchants that make up
PayPal is apparently still open to Stripe’s $53.4 billion takeover bid, but not at the price Stripe had offered. On the company’s second-quarter 2026 earnings conference call on Tuesday, PayPal CEO Enrique Lores did not completely rule out the idea of a deal, saying the company would consider a path that creates “superior value” for
One of the strangest episodes in the history of e-commerce has come to an end. eBay and several former eBay employees have agreed to pay $56 million to a couple who wrote newsletters and who were targeted by the company’s former executives in a horrific campaign of targeted harassment that took place in 2019. Ina
Sudo, make me a sandwich. The future has arrived! DoorDash just introduced a limited beta version of the DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool for developers that lets you request DoorDash directly from your AI agent. The tool can be used to search stores, find deals and pay, the company says. Today we are opening the
After weeks of speculation, Uber has officially agreed to acquire Delivery Hero, a purchase that will take the transportation and delivery giant’s status to new heights and into nearly 100 markets across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Germany-based Delivery Hero also reached a separate deal to sell its business in 14 markets,
Live shopping app Whatnot announced Wednesday that it has acquired Shaped, a machine learning company that specializes in real-time search and recommendation systems. The deal aims to strengthen Whatnot’s discovery and personalization capabilities as the platform continues to expand across new product categories and millions of shoppers. According to the company, the acquisition helps Whatnot
