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Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)
https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-sales-fraud-investigation-firin…

Shopify rocked by sales fraud scandal that led to ultimatums and firings - The Logic
Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.

Sources allege that nonprofit Ruby Central took control of some Ruby open-source projects from their maintainers without consent, after pressure from Shopify (Joel Drapper)
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

Shopify is legitimately angry at drive-by ADA lawsuits:
https://www.shopify.com/news/accessibility-lawsuits
But Shopify is wrong there are “no clear guidelines.” That’s a signal the author didn’t consult Shopify’s own team.
Shopify also fails to note its role to pro…

The small business shakedown: Why thousands of entrepreneurs are getting buried in lawsuits
Murky accessibility laws make compliance nearly impossible. Ultimately, it’s a loss for both small businesses and disability advocates.

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

The job of the college is to get the best price for the property and not subsidize another college.
"Shannan is hoping the college will sell him the property at less than market value, but the process has been frustrating. He said he was in the process of trying to have a conversation with Algonquin, but was “rebuffed” as recently as Tuesday."
Then there will be the hurdles of getting the accreditation. I love the idea of a trades college, but there is a lot of work an…

State AG's team up to troll #Shopify website for $elling vapes to unauthorized underage teens
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-offi…

Arizona AG wants Shopify to crack down on teen vape sales
It's the latest move in Kris Mayes' effort to keep vapes away from teens, and vice versa.

Shopify joined Substack in October, the latest and the biggest company to do so and a sign that brands take Substack seriously as a marketing channel (Allison Smith/Modern Retail)
https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/shopify-jus…

Shopify just became the biggest company to launch a Substack newsletter
Shopify has launched a Substack newsletter called "In Stock," becoming the largest company on the platform.

Shopify suffers an outage, leaving some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems, and says it has fixed an issue and is seeing signs of recovery (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/shopify-outage-cyber-monday-shopping.html

Shopify outage: Shopping platform goes down for some users during Cyber Monday
Select merchants were unable to log in to Shopify, while others couldn't access their point-of-sale systems, the company said.

In completely unrelated news, they recently established a “use AI or get fired” policy at Shopify
https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/115645558417993967

Did you know if you make a Shopify dev store you can't currently delete it? Great, someone should tell Shopify's chatbot that confidently made up some instructions for me.

OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/29/chatgpt-instant-checkout-etsy-shopify.html…

Etsy pops 13% as OpenAI announces ChatGPT Instant Checkout for the shopping site
U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Free users can now make purchases through the chatbot

#SteadySupporter
Droht mit der Einführung von KI-Tools ein großer #Jobabbau in der Tech-Branche?
Aussagen und auch Taten von Top-Managern heizen die Debatte an und schaffen Unruhe. Fraglich bleibt, ob

CEOs setzen KI-Zwang und Abbau von Arbeitsplätzen fort
Die CEOs von Salesforce & Shopify setzen voll auf KI. Doch das setzt Entwickler und Mitarbeiter stark unter Druck.

Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $2.84B, vs. $2.76B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $92B, and expects Q4 revenue up in the mid-to-high 20% range, vs. 23.4% est. (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

#Artikelupdate #SteadySupporter
Droht mit der Einführung von KI-Tools ein großer #Jobabbau in der Tech-Branche?
Aussagen und auch Taten von Top-Managern heizen die Debatte an…

CEOs setzen KI-Zwang und Abbau von Arbeitsplätzen fort
Die CEOs von Salesforce & Shopify setzen voll auf KI. Doch das setzt Entwickler und Mitarbeiter stark unter Druck.

Shopify update:
Thing that didn't work last week worked first time today - great!
However from there on all is misery.
They seem to be totally changing how app dev works, a great time to be trying to use it.

OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 and has improved reliability for agentic AI needs; pre-release testers include Notion, Box, Shopify (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/842529/open…

OpenAI calls GPT-5.2 the best model yet for professionals
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2, which it calls its best AI model yet for professional use.

#Artikelupdate
Ergänzt wurde #Amazon. Die angegebenen Begründungen erscheinen mir etwas schwamming bzw. "zu spät". Sie stehen im Umfeld von Einführung und Ausbau von KI-Systemen und dem Milliardeninvestment in eine KI-Firma.

CEOs setzen KI-Zwang und Abbau von Arbeitsplätzen fort
Die CEOs von Salesforce & Shopify setzen voll auf KI. Doch das setzt Entwickler und Mitarbeiter stark unter Druck.

Lost the will to live with Shopify.
I have the code to a custom app that is already running in a store, just trying to replicate it on a new dev account and new store and it's like landing a fucking space shuttle. Absolute insanity.