<p>ElectronX has raised $10 million to build an exchange for electricity derivatives trading.</p>

<p>Amazon expands its Same-Day and Next-Day delivery services to 4,000 small cities and towns in the rural U.S. </p>

<p>African B2B e-commerce startup Sabi has laid off around 20% of its workforce as it doubles down on a growing business in commodity exports.</p>

<p>Amazon is investing $233M in its India business to expand operations infrastructure, build new tools for its delivery network, and work on employee safety.</p>

<p>Amazon has revealed that Prime Day 2025 will take place on July 8-11, extending the annual sale event to four days this year. Amazon notes that consumers will be able to shop for &#8220;pantry staples and snacks for summer gatherings to home-improvement must-haves, back-to-school supplies, health and personal care finds, family-favorite toys, best-selling books, pet [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pinterest is experimenting with &#8220;auto-collages,&#8221; an AI feature that allows advertisers to quickly turn their product catalogs into shoppable collages.</p>

<p>Apple has yet to deliver on some of the key technology advances that could modernize developers&#8217; apps for the AI era.</p>

<p>PayPal is partnering with hotel payment provider Selfbook to let users search for and book hotels within the PayPal app.</p>

<p>WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction&#8230; again.</p>

<p>Misfits Market, the online platform that delivers imperfect groceries to help minimize waste, announced the acquisition of household restocking service The Rounds on Friday.</p>

<p>Home services in India — whether it is cleaning, dishwashing, or laundry — have traditionally been offline and informally run. This has often resulted in delays and uncertainties for consumers, as well as inconsistent pay and job insecurity for workers. Recently, however, startups have begun viewing this area as ripe for transformation, leveraging technology to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta wants to grow its retail footprint, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. As Meta continues to invest in wearables, these stores would ideally help Meta boost the sales of hardware like the Ray-Ban Meta glasses and the Meta Quest VR headsets. These products may be easier to sell if customers can try them out at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify says its ability to direct its customers to external payment links in its iOS app has already had a positive impact on sales. In a newly filed amicus brief in support of Epic Games in its ongoing legal battle with Apple over external payments on the App Store, Spotify claims its internal data indicates [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pronto, which provides cleaning, laundry and home services within 10 minutes, has raised $2M at a $12.5M valuation.</p>

<p>Roblox announced on Thursday that creators can now sell physical merchandise directly within their experiences and games on the platform with the launch of new Commerce APIs. The offering provides creators with a new way to generate revenue beyond the purchases of virtual goods or one-time fees to access specific experiences. The company began testing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to delay enforcement of the Negative Option Rule — known widely as the “click-to-cancel” rule requiring companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up. The rule, which was first proposed in 2023, took aim at businesses selling physical and digital subscriptions [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon said Thursday it is releasing a new generative AI-powered tool to help merchants improve their listings with missing details or attributes. Sellers often have hundreds of products listed on Amazon, and they need to update information related to them from time to time, which can be a cumbersome task. The e-commerce tech giant wants [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple is trying to delay a court ruling that forces the company to let iOS app developers accept payments via non-Apple systems and avoid paying a cut.</p>

<p>Simo, already a board member at OpenAI, will transition out of Instacart over the next few months and join the AI company full-time as Application CEO.</p>

<p>During his junior year study abroad, Max Morganroth, traveled to 30 countries, primarily flying in business and first class. His jet-setting was funded almost entirely by airline points he collected through strategic credit card applications and miles redemptions. Morganroth told TechCrunch that just about everyone he knew was &#8220;begging&#8221; him to teach them how to [&hellip;]</p>