Walmart has quietly reduced platform commissions for 14 categories, including clothing, electronics, and home goods, aiming to reduce seller costs and improve the platform's pricing competitiveness during major promotions.
TikTok Shop's mid-year promotion in the U.S. showed strong performance, with overall sales volume doubling. Livestreaming became a core driving force, and both cross-border POP and fully managed models exhibited significant growth, indicating a strong penetration of interest-based e-commerce in the U.S. market.
TikTok Shop's compliance adaptation period for cross-border direct shipping orders in Southeast Asia ended on July 19. The platform has imposed stricter requirements on shipping timeliness, including packaging within 48 hours and completing logistics pickup within 3 days, with penalties for non-compliant sellers.
Amazon has gradually eliminated the independent seller pre-qualification process for the Featured Offer (formerly Buy Box). In the future, the system will assess sellers dynamically based on a holistic evaluation of pricing competitiveness, shipping timeliness, and store performance, rather than relying on a single pre-qualification threshold.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major technical failure in its billing estimate system, causing some customers to receive erroneous bill amounts, with the highest showing up to $1.5 trillion. Amazon confirmed this issue as a system error and not actual charges.
eBay officially announced its open rate table for the live shopping feature (eBay Live). Compared to the platform's standard commission of 13.6% for non-store sellers, the rate for live commerce categories has significantly been reduced to 8.9%, aiming to attract sellers to engage in live e-commerce business through more competitive costs.
TikTok is testing a new self-selection tool aimed at scanning and identifying unauthorized AI deepfake content on the platform. This tool allows creators to report instances of their likeness being misused, further enhancing the platform's governance over AI-generated content.
Amazon's autonomous vehicle company Zoox announces the recall of 105 autonomous taxis due to a defect in the smoke detection software. This defect was revealed during a fire incident in Las Vegas.
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang has been fined $423 million for a data breach, escalating into a diplomatic dispute between the US and South Korea concerning the treatment of American tech companies in Korea.
Walmart has quietly lowered commission rates for 14 categories on its platform, with the most significant reductions seen in clothing, electronics, and home categories. This aims to enhance the platform's price competitiveness through reduced seller costs ahead of upcoming promotional events.
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to the Omaha metropolitan area by the end of this summer. This will be the 11th market for the service in the U.S., pending final review by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Amazon has recently adjusted the rules for obtaining Featured Offers (i.e., the shopping cart) by eliminating the previous independent seller performance qualification check. Now, metrics such as order defect rate, chargeback rate, and customer feedback will be combined with factors like price and delivery speed, using a unified weighted formula for ranking.
With ByteDance completing the transfer of control over U.S. business data, the U.S. Department of Justice has approved federal employees to download and use TikTok on work devices. This policy shift signifies significant compliance progress for TikTok in the U.S. and helps alleviate previous concerns about platform security.
Alipay+, a subsidiary of Ant Group, announced integration with Argentina's national QR payment system, Transferencias 3.0, enabling global tourists to make QR payments at millions of merchants in Argentina.
Walmart and Sam's Club recently implemented price reductions on thousands of summer products in a bid to attract more foot traffic during the summer shopping season by offering high-value products.
Walmart is urgently removing and recalling certain lettuce products due to potential cyclospora infection risks. This is the latest move by retailers to strengthen food safety compliance.
Brands like SharkNinja and Rare Beauty publicly oppose TikTok Shop creators using AI to generate fake product demonstration videos. The platform has clearly stated that creators who misuse AI without disclosure will face penalties such as commission deductions.
The online marketplace Rakuten France will officially close at the end of the year due to poor traffic and sales performance, having failed to find suitable buyers.
Latest data shows that the European retail media advertising market is performing strongly with a 16.7% growth in spending, reaching €13.3 billion, outpacing the overall digital advertising market growth.
Newegg announced the expansion of its trade-in program to include desktop memory modules, aiming to enhance its competitiveness in the PC hardware upgrade market through a circular economy model.