Tomorrow’s commerce platforms won’t show you the decision

Commerce has outgrown the dashboard. Brands now operate across marketplaces, retail media networks, web stores, fulfillment ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Uno Platform Helps Ship First Stable SkiaSharp 4.0 Release for 2D .NET Graphics

SkiaSharp 4.148.0 marks the first stable release in the SkiaSharp v4 line. The project is now co-maintained by Microsoft's .NET team and Uno Platform, reflecting a broader open-source collaboration.
FiercePharma

Teva to lay off 250 at API unit as search for new owner drags on: report

Teva Pharmaceuticals plans to remove 250 jobs at its CDMO unit over the next two years, Israeli business news outlet Globes reports. The development comes as Teva remains in its search for a new owner ...
The Verge

Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access

Developers will now have to pay a $11.99 / month subscription to build apps using Strava’s data. Developers will now have to pay a $11.99 / month subscription to build apps using Strava’s data. is a ...
IEEE

Full Stack E-Commerce System with Role-Based Access, Integrated AI Chatbot, and NLP-Driven Product Search

Abstract: The paper discusses the design and implementation of a full stack e-commerce website powered by AI search for product recommendations for great user experience, built using an altered MERN ...
adexchanger

Google Enters The Ecommerce Wars; Big Brother Is Listening (Maybe)

Amazon achieved ecommerce supremacy in the dot-com era. While Google won search, the commerce lane belonged to Amazon. But Google sees an opportunity for an ecommerce do-over in the agentic AI era, ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet

The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions involved targeted ads, algorithmic recommendations, SEO, and lots of mindless scrolling. But agentic commerce ...
The New York Times

Frank Stack, Painter Who Secretly Drew ‘The Adventures of Jesus,’ Dies at 88

For 20 years, he hid his identity behind the nom de plume Foolbert Sturgeon as he chronicled Christ’s encounters with modern-day hypocrites in comic-book form. Frank Stack in a 1986 ...
The New York Times

EBay, the Old-School E-Commerce Site, Finds Its Place in Modern Retail

The online marketplace has remade itself by focusing on collectibles and other high-end goods — and attracted an unwelcome takeover bid from GameStop. By Kim Bhasin EBay, once Silicon Valley’s face of ...
Wall Street Journal

Small Online Shops Get Creative With Returns to Win Over Picky Shoppers

Online shoppers are getting a lot more demanding about returns. And that puts small businesses in a bind. Some 81% of customers read return policies before shopping with a retailer, and 71% say that a ...
InfoQ

Implementing the Sidecar Pattern in Microservices-Based ASP.NET Core Applications

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain ...