<p>The Trump trade war has gone viral on TikTok, pushing a Chinese e-commerce app, DHgate, to the top of the U.S. App Store. After Trump increased U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports by 145%, numerous Chinese suppliers and manufacturers began making TikTok videos explaining to consumers how the global luxury goods market actually works. The clothing, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a quiet transformation from merchandising giant to (also) healthcare giant, Amazon may be positioning its sprawling logistics network and growing medical footprint to potentially save lives, starting with your front door. According to Bloomberg, back in 2023, Amazon piloted a several months-long pilot program called Project Pulse, equipping delivery vans with defibrillators and training [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jobandtalent, an AI-based “workforce as a service” marketplace that connects people with companies looking for hourly workers, announced it has raised €92 million ($103 million).&nbsp; The Series F — which includes participation from Atomico, BlackRock, DN Capital, Hercules, Infravia, Kibo,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kinnevik — values the Madrid, Spain-based company at €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) post-money.&nbsp; On the surface, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fashion goes in and out of style, and it turns out, so do fashion startups. Lyst, a high-end fashion marketplace that was once valued at $700 million, has been acquired for just $154 million in cash by Zozo, a Japan-based fashion and e-commerce business. Zozo owns a number of fashion brands that include Wear by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a recent memo to employees, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke made a bold policy change: teams must demonstrate why AI can&#8217;t perform a job before they&#8217;re permitted to ask for more headcount and resources. &#8220;Before asking for more headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI,&#8221; Lütke [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon is starting to test a new AI shopping agent, a feature it calls &#8220;Buy for Me,&#8221; with a subset of users, the company announced in a blog post Thursday. If Amazon doesn&#8217;t sell something that users are searching for, the Buy for Me feature will display products that other websites are selling. Then users [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals. Ahead of the layoffs, Automattic&#8217;s website listed 1,744 employees, which means north of 270 people may have lost their jobs. (Automattic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TikTok is set to expand its TikTok Shop e-commerce platform to users in France, Germany, and Italy on Monday, Reuters reports. TikTok Shop has been available in the United Kingdom since 2021, and now the company is ready to expand farther into Europe. While TikTok Shop is also available in the United States and saw [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon continues to infuse AI into its shopping tools to encourage customers to make more purchases. The company announced on Wednesday a new feature called “Interests,” aimed at creating a more personalized and conversational search experience.  With the new feature, customers can enter tailored prompts in the search bar, reflecting their interests, preferences, and even [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In 2010, a programmer who was mining bitcoin famously made the comically expensive mistake of spending 10,000 bitcoin on two pizzas. As of this writing, those coins would be worth $850 million. While there are few comparisons to that kind of miscalculation, the prospect of adding interest payments to fast-food orders is raising concerns nonetheless. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made a splash at SXSW last week, showing up at her keynote event in a T-shirt that subtly poked fun at Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg. Or, at least it seemed like it was subtle. But so many people appreciated the jab that users convinced Bluesky to reproduce and sell Graber&#8217;s shirt [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union&#8217;s Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findings announced Wednesday by EU Commission enforcers of the bloc&#8217;s flagship market contestability law, who have been investigating the company for months. The DMA applies to a handful of tech giants, Alphabet (Google&#8217;s parent) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced on Wednesday that kids with Android phones can now tap to pay at stores using Google Wallet in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, and Poland. Parents and guardians in these countries can now allow their children to access digital payments on their Android devices with supervision. Kids can also use Google [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nearly 10 years after filing to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that it&#8217;s transitioning its U.S. listing to the Nasdaq. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday, Shopify said it is removing its Class A shares [&hellip;]</p>

<p>U.S. president Donald Trump’s wide-ranging tariff hikes are already resulting in growth forecasts being cut amid an uncertain public mood — all of which will inevitably impact the technology sector. On Tuesday, however, food e-commerce startup GrubMarket seemed impervious to these macroeconomic concerns: it announced a new equity round of $50 million at a post-money [&hellip;]</p>

<p>La Fourche is just seven years old but it has been quite a rollercoaster for the French startup. During this time, the online grocery retailer has gone through a global pandemic, followed by the rise of venture-backed quick-commerce startups that promised grocery deliveries in less than 15 minutes, followed by the implosion of that vertical. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Uber Technologies has ended its acquisition of Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda in Taiwan, the Germany-based tech firm said on Tuesday. The announcement comes roughly three months after Taiwan&#8217;s antitrust regulator blocked the deal, citing competitive issues. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said that if Uber acquired Foodpanda, its market share in Taiwan would increase to 90%, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>CollX, a company offering an online trading card marketplace, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Austin-based Brand Foundry Ventures and Philadelphia-based 114 Ventures, both of which were previous investors in the company. Other investors such as Next Coast Ventures, FJ Labs, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners also participated [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc&#8217;s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The big aim of the EU&#8217;s flagship competition reform &#8212; which came into force last spring &#8212; was to level the digital playing field by forcing platform giants into fairer dealing with rivals and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Wednesday, Google announced the launch of a new AI image feature for its Shopping tab, designed to help users find clothing items they envision by allowing them to search using their own words. The company is also expanding its AR beauty and virtual try-on tools. The new feature, &#8220;Vision Match,&#8221; is now available in [&hellip;]</p>