SEATTLE – Reports in the Associated Press and elsewhere confirmed this week that Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online juggernaut “ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere.” Most workers will be given...
NEW YORK – With years of expertise in intellectual property, and daily interactions with Amazon sellers, attorneys at Cabilly & Co. (offices in New York and Israel) have found that most account suspensions aren’t caused by bad behavior. Instead, they...
SEATTLE – Citing Amazon internal strategy documents, the New York Times revealed earlier this week that Amazon executives “believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.” The...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – A short Reddit article earlier this month revealed that Google had “quietly” removed the num=100 search parameter. A Google press release search on the topic came up empty, but Reddit revealed that the simple code trick that lets users...
OAKLAND, CA – A study by GlobalData revealed that, “despite economic uncertainty, holiday spending remains resilient, with a major shift to circular shopping.” Put another way, consumers plan to dedicate nearly 40% of their total holiday budgets to...
BENTONVILLE, AR – Prosper exhibitor Walmart became the latest (and largest) juggernaut to partner with OpenAI in a move that will allow customers to shop Walmart through ChatGPT using Instant Checkout. “For many years now, eCommerce shopping experiences have consisted...
WATERLOO, ON – In the world of logistics and supply chain technology, Waterloo, Ontario-based Descartes helps product sellers and 3PLs eliminate friction between online demand and physical fulfillment so they can grow profitably. “In the ecommerce space,...
TEMPE, AZ – AI agents are launching at an incredibly rapid pace, with more than one billion agents projected to be built by businesses alone in the next three years. As AI agents start communicating with one another, there is currently no standard for...
SEATTLE – An Amazon news report last week revealed a new feature called “Add to Delivery” which makes it simple to add items to an upcoming delivery with one tap. There will be no need to go through checkout again, and no added shipping fees. “Just find what...
SAN JOSE, CA – Will the upcoming holiday shopping season be one for the record books? Adobe released its online shopping forecast for the 2025 holiday season—making educated guesses covering the period from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2025. Adobe expects U.S. online...
SAN FRANCISCO – OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into a virtual merchant and partnering with Etsy and Shopify. What does it mean right now and in the future? Is it a big deal, no deal, or somewhere in between? We asked the experts. “In my opinion, this is not a big...
SAN FRANCISCO – With relatively little fanfare, OpenAI announced this week that it is turning ChatGPT into a virtual merchant that will guide customers to products on Etsy and Shopify. As reported in U.S. News and World Report, the move is an attempt to generate new...
SEATTLE – Amazon Web Services (AWS), SAP SE unveiled plans last week to make SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe backed by a planned $7.8B investment from Amazon. The collaboration...
McDONOUGH, GA – With Amazon exiting the FBA prep business effective January 2026, online sellers will be taking on more responsibility than ever. While the Amazon decision was not unexpected, it increases the burden on sellers and forces them to up their level...
