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Walmart-backed PhonePe winds down its Pincode app in yet another e-commerce step back

In its latest retreat from India’s crowded online retail market, Walmart-backed fintech giant PhonePe has wound down its Pincode e-commerce app and will shift the business toward B2B services for offline merchants. On Thursday, PhonePe founder and group CEO Sameer Nigam said operating a consumer-facing quick-commerce app had become a distraction from the company’s core … Read more

SoftBank stays in as Meesho $606M IPO becomes India’s first major e-commerce listing

Meesho, an Indian e-commerce rival to Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart, is set to launch a roughly $606 million IPO marked by token sell-downs from early backers and no sales from big names such as SoftBank and Prosus, signalling investor conviction in India’s booming online retail market at a time when tech shareholders globally have been … Read more

Global e-commerce startup funding hits 2020s low, while 2025 U.S. holiday spending could break records

And 2025 is expected to be record-breaking: The National Retail Federation anticipates that, for the first time, U.S. holiday spending will cross $1 trillion. Now, a seeming contradiction—funding for e-commerce startups is at a low.  In 2021, global e-commerce-related startup funding peaked (along with so much else) and reached more than $94 billion, according to … Read more

XTB Black Friday 2025 Report Reveals Top E-Commerce Stocks

XTB, a leading brokerage platform, just released its “Countdown to Black Friday 2025” report. Through its in-depth analysis, the platform takes a close look at a number of popular e-commerce stocks that have historically benefited from increased traffic during Black Friday to find out which trends could reemerge during this shopping season. We break down … Read more

WSPN brings stablecoin settlement to ecommerce checkout

WSPN is applying crypto’s efficiency directly to merchant payments. The launch of its Checkout product provides a standardized path for e-commerce platforms to integrate and settle with major stablecoins. Summary WSPN launched Checkout, enabling ecommerce platforms to accept and settle major stablecoins in real time. The product targets cross-border payment delays and high fees by … Read more

Walmart’s deal with ChatGPT should worry every ecommerce small business: Your website is living on borrowed time in the age of AI

Four months ago, industry veterans were debating whether AI shopping agents could disrupt Amazon and Walmart’s dominance. Today, those same retailers are racing to build the infrastructure that makes those agents possible. That’s how quickly this is moving. For the past 25 years, the retail website has been sacred territory. Brands controlled the narrative, captured data, … Read more

Alibaba says AI spending for e-commerce Taobao Tmall is breaking even

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has pledged to spend more than $50 billion on artificial intelligence over the next three years. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng SHANGHAI — Chinese tech giant Alibaba is already recouping its investment on artificial intelligence in the company’s e-commerce business, vice president Kaifu Zhang told reporters on Thursday. The Chinese tech giant … Read more

India pilots AI chatbot-led e-commerce with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude in the mix

India has kicked off a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT leading the rollout and integrations with Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude in development, as the South Asian nation becomes the next major market for global AI companies. On Thursday, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), … Read more

OpenAI allows ChatGPT to start buying products directly from a chat in a radical shakeup of e-commerce

OpenAI said it will allow users in the U.S. to make purchases directly through ChatGPT using a new “Instant Checkout” feature powered by a payment protocol for AI developed by Stripe. The new chatbot shopping feature is a big step towards helping OpenAI monetize its 700 million weekly users, many of whom currently pay nothing … Read more

UQUID report identifies TRON as core infrastructure for e-commerce payments across Latin America, Africa, and Asia

Share this article Geneva, Switzerland – September 10, 2025 – UQUID, a leading Web3 shopping infrastructure, has published a research report, providing a detailed analysis of the transactions on the TRON network processed through the UQUID platform. The report highlights TRON’s accelerating adoption in stablecoin payments, everyday purchases, and its growing role as a preferred … Read more

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