@Techmeme@techhub.socialBengaluru-based Yulu, which gets ~95% of its revenue from renting e-bikes to gig workers, raised a $93M Series C, sources say at a ~$170M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/indias-yulu-raises-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfrican e-commerce company Jumia raised $50M, including $25M from the World Bank's IFC; Jumia's US-listed shares have fallen from $60 in 2021 to $6 now (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@mlncn@social.coophttps://jensorensen.com/2026/07/29/more-e-commerce-chaos/
…reminds me that the legal right a corporation has to a brand is rationalized by the claim that it helps people make informed purchasing decisions. There is rarely much connection between the name on the box and …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Dragofix@veganism.socialRapid wetland loss and ‘real estate boom’ increasing flood risk in Lagos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/09/rapid-wetland-loss-and-real-estate-boom-increasing-flood-risk-in-lagos/
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioOrdered cashews but received psyllium husk. Don't know what the world is trying to tell us. 😟
#worry #e_commerce #life
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksSome good news: I think I've succeeded in shutting down Pest Proof, a company selling a scam mosquito trap filled with yeast, sugar, baking soda, and citric acid. Its e-commerce site started displaying, "Site Inactive", today, at least. Over the past several weeks I've sent complaints to all 50 states, the EPA, the FTC, and to regulatory authorities in Canada and the UK where it was also being marketed. Someone listened, it seems. Traps like this kill innocent insects, not mosquitoes. #mosquitoes #insects
@fazalmajid@vivaldi.net@… @… I calculated that Amazon's market cap is basically that of AWS and its advertising business (using Google and Meta as comps, and prorating Amazon's ad revenue), i.e. Wall Street thinks Amazon e-commerce is worthless…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot➡️ Automated systems just don't work for e-commerce/services ⬅️
I get *conflicting* automated notifications from the seller and the courier.
I get *completely incorrect* notifications from the local pharmacy (this has been happening for a year and they don't know how to fix it)
I sometimes get *completely incorrect* notifications from the Royal Mail about pick-ups or deliveries.
It now takes MUCH longer to deal with customer service issues.
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caIn the wake of CEO Tobi Lutke endorsing an electoral system in which votes are allocated based on how much income tax you pay, e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that customers can put in promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off any order on any store that uses the platform.
https://
@cdarwin@c.imAmazon is bringing drone delivery back to California
Amazon customers in Tracy, Calif., could soon receive their packages from an autonomous drone in as little as 30 minutes.
The e-commerce giant is preparing to launch its Prime Air service in Tracy as part of a broader expansion effort
that will bring delivery drones to 500 cities and towns by the end of the year.
Prime Air already operates in 11 communities, including San Antonio, Baton Rouge and Kansas City.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI no longer understand (e)commerce.
I need a replacement bathtub knob thingy (technically a "trip lever overflow plate"). I checked the usual places - Amazon, Lowes, Home Depot, etc - and they were typically around $10-$20. I looked on Ebay and found one (new!) for $5, including shipping. The same exact knob is $12 on Home Depot.
I order it. Two days later, it arrives - drop-shipped from Home Depot, in a Home Depot box. I saved more than 50% by not ordering directly fro…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialeBay and several ex-executives agree to pay a $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case involving the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/ebay-blogger-harassment-stalking-steiner.html
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukAnthropic told America’s Congress that Alibaba had been responsible for the “largest campaign to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities” ever. It accused the Chinese e-commerce giant of generating almost 29m exchanges with its AI model... (from The Economist)
Someone should tell them that sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.
More generally this is good news. It shows how locking up AI data in proprietary models is a losing game.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndia eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-relaxe…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe FTC and 22 state AGs sue Amazon, alleging it "secretly and systematically overcharged" advertisers more than $20B since 2019 by using "hidden surcharges" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/31/amazon-ftc-lawsuit-advertisers.html…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialeBay and several ex-executives agree to pay a $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case involving the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/ebay-blogger-harassment-stalking-steiner.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUkraine ratchets up its attacks on warehouses of Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war as it seeks to hamper Russia's economy (Sam Meredith/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/ukraine-russia-war-wildberries-drones-amazo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/exclusi
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
