AI Can Grow SMB Revenue — If It Moves Beyond the Back Office
Misconceptions about artificial intelligence (AI) are preventing small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from realizing AI’s full revenue…
Hostinger Reframes Site-Free Ecommerce
Lithuania-based hosting firm Hostinger has launched an ecommerce tool that can turn any product photo into a…
How AI Agents Are Rewiring Market Power and Brand Visibility
Across retail, payments, and big tech, AI-enabled checkout, automated product comparison, and autonomous purchasing tools are becoming…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 1, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
How to make your store readable to AI shopping agents
Your online store should make it simple for customers to find and buy the products they want….
Amazon launches AI assistant for German sellers
Amazon has made its Seller Assistant available within Seller Central in Germany. “This AI-powered assistant helps you…
The Digital Shelf Begins Before the Search Bar
Retail marketers are rethinking what constitutes the digital shelf. Rather than beginning on retailer product pages or…
AI Forces Affiliates to Innovate or Die
Commerce publishers are the affiliate marketers behind product reviews, buying guides, comparison articles, deal pages, and niche…
‘AI is becoming active participant in purchasing’
New reports on ecommerce in the five biggest European online markets shows that online shopping is still…
Printful Exec on Profitable Print-on-Demand
Thanks to companies such as Printful, an enterprising entrepreneur can select a product, upload an image to…
New Ecommerce Tools: June 24, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, generative engine optimization,…
Platform-Switching Tax: The Hidden Cost Every Multi-Platform Seller Pays
You know the drill. You open Shopify in the morning. Switch to Amazon at lunch. Check Instagram’s…
Impulse Buying Taking Backseat to Deliberate Shopping: Report
Shoppers are showing less impulse and greater deliberation when making purchasing decisions these days, according to a…
Build an AI Flywheel for Ecommerce
Ecommerce shops benefit most from AI when it helps make better decisions to improve productivity and profitability….
New Ecommerce Tools: June 17, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
Prime Day Has Remade the Retail Calendar
After 11 years, Amazon Prime Day has trained shoppers to look for summer sales in much the…
AI Turns Ecommerce Design into Reality
Ecommerce websites consist of themes and templates made with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Executives typically define the…
Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit
I love the fact that CSS is finally reclaiming control over visual interactions, taking charge of the…
What Happens When AI Becomes the Buyer?
AI agents are moving beyond assisting with purchases to making them, raising new questions about trust, marketing,…
Merchantee targets Poland and Germany
Agentic marketplace intelligence company Merchantee has raised 1.8 million euros in a funding round. With the capital…
AI Buying Agents Raise New Accountability Questions
Earlier this year, eBay updated its user agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and…
Engineer Quits, Launches Online Art School
Florence Morin is an artist-turned-engineer-turned-entrepreneur. She graduated from Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal in 2013, only to realize she…
Belgian ecommerce worth 18 billion euros
Last year, Belgian consumers spent 18.3 billion euros online. Compared to a year earlier, this is an…
Better Product Images Build Buyer Trust in Resale Marketplaces
As resale marketplaces grow, a platform’s ability to process and verify visuals at the point of upload…