Worldwide PC shipments fell by roughly one-fifth in the third quarter of 2026, according to preliminary estimates from IDC, Gartner and Omdia. IDC reported worldwide PC shipments of 62.7 million …
In an Aug. 11, 2026 report based on Q2 commerce data, Shopify said AI-referred shoppers who reached a product page converted about 80% better than shoppers referred by organic search. …
Shopify has added broader policy automation to the Shopify admin, giving merchants a way to generate and maintain several customer-facing policy pages from store settings instead of writing each one …
Shopify has introduced Canvas, a new AI-assisted storefront design surface that brings Sidekick into the theme-building workflow. In its Oct. 1, 2026, announcement, Shopify said Canvas was rolling out to …
Shopify has moved browser-based AI shopping agents closer to completing purchases on behalf of buyers, adding checkout support to its WebMCP tools on September 28, 2026. According to Shopify’s developer …
Shopify has begun the merchant rollout of market-driven shipping, opening opt-in access on October 1, 2026 and starting a staged shift that is scheduled to reach all shops by July …
U.S. diesel prices have slipped below US$6.50 per gallon after reaching a record earlier in September. AAA’s national average stood at US$6.4709 per U.S. gallon on September 27, 2026, down …
Drewry’s World Container Index fell 1% to US$4,468 per 40-foot container in its September 24, 2026 assessment, while the Shanghai–Los Angeles rate rose 2% to US$7,838. Shanghai–New York remained broadly …
For discount retailers, weak ocean shipping reliability is no longer just a procurement headache. Pepco Group is a current case study. Reuters reported on September 21 that the Warsaw-listed discount …
Google’s AI shopping push is moving from product discovery to direct purchase for eligible Shopify merchants. As of September 26, 2026, Shopify’s help documentation describes the Google AI Mode and …
Tanker freight has become one of the clearest signals of stress in energy markets. The latest Baltic Exchange weekly tanker report, published September 25, put the daily round-trip time-charter equivalent …
Meta has rolled back, for now, an internal test that let human contractors handle some calls requested through Muse, its new personal AI agent, after employees raised privacy and disclosure …
Peak-season freight cost pressure is moving from forecast to invoice. UPS, FedEx and USPS have published holiday price programs that begin in late September or early October, while ocean, air …
The EU’s new customs duty on low-value parcels is already changing cross-border ecommerce behaviour. Before July 1, many low-value ecommerce parcels entered the EU without customs duty if their value …
Amazon’s decision to block Meta’s Muse from shopping on Amazon.com raises an important question about agentic commerce: if an AI arrives acting for a person, does the retailer have to …
Alibaba’s latest AI announcement is less about one accelerator than about control of the system around it. At its Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on September 22, 2026, Alibaba Cloud announced …
Google Merchant Center has turned AI shopping visibility into a report Canadian retailers can inspect, rather than a channel that has to be watched only through screenshots and one-off prompt …
Record diesel refining margins are turning a market signal into a wider cost problem for logistics-heavy industries. The issue is not only the price of crude oil. Diesel crack spreads …
Saudi Arabia shut its East-West Pipeline after multiple attacks, putting pressure on one of the few routes built to move Gulf crude around the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia’s East-West …
VLCC rates from the Gulf of Oman to China have jumped to about Worldscale 450, giving energy buyers and supply-chain teams a clearer warning than oil prices alone. Oil-market risk …
Brent crude touched $99.46 a barrel on September 8. A widening Middle East conflict is the main driver, and the Strait of Hormuz sits at the center of it. On …
The lawsuit claims Amazon told advertisers they were in a second-price auction while using hidden reserve pricing that pushed many sellers closer to their full bid. If you sell on …
Google says its AI search opt-out has reached all websites, but Brussels is asking publishers whether the control gives them usable leverage or just a new way to lose visibility. …
Web security best practices are not only for banks, SaaS companies, and enterprise IT teams. They apply to every site that collects form submissions, uses WordPress plugins, connects to third-party …
Shopify’s August 26, 2026 deadline isn’t just a checkout cleanup date. For non-Plus stores still using legacy Thank You and Order Status page customizations, it’s a tracking, attribution, app, and …
U.S. retail and food services sales fell 0.6% in July, according to the Census Bureau’s August 14 advance report. Sales came in at $763.6 billion, down from a revised $768.1 …
Anthropic is rolling out invisible text watermarking for Claude in response to the EU AI Act. Future Claude models will include the watermark, while models launched before August 2, 2026 …
Use this website security checklist to audit your site for common weaknesses. Mark each item Pass, Fix, or N/A, then use the sections below to investigate anything that needs attention. …
Traffic is down. Your first instinct might be to change titles, rewrite pages, rebuild ads, or start touching anything that looks suspicious. Don’t start there. A ranking loss, broken analytics …
When a Google update rolls out, the worst move is often the one that feels most productive. Changing titles. Rewriting pages. Deleting content. Reworking internal links. Asking three SEO groups …
Google launched AI Overviews and AI Mode in France on July 22, 2026, bringing its AI search products to a market it had left out of earlier European expansions. The …
The European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million on July 20, 2026, the largest penalty issued under the Digital Services Act so far. The Commission found that AliExpress failed to assess …
Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach US$2.59 trillion in 2026. It’s an arresting number, but it doesn’t mean ordinary businesses are collectively spending that amount on chatbots and software …
A Canadian family of four could spend $17,571.79 on food in 2026, up to $994.63 more than in 2025, according to Canada’s Food Price Report. That figure is a forecast …
Making Meta ads is about to get much faster. The risk is that a false claim, off-brand image or expired offer can multiply just as quickly. Meta is building an …
Two U.S. back-to-school surveys published days apart point in opposite directions. Deloitte expects planned K-12 spending to hold roughly flat in dollars and fall after inflation. JLL expects the average …
The Canadian dollar was hovering near 70 U.S. cents in early July 2026. At the same time, the U.S. declined to give CUSMA the long-term renewal Canada and Mexico wanted. …
OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 generally available, and this release is unusual for two reasons. First, OpenAI says it began with a limited preview for trusted partners after a request from …
For every 1,000 Google searches in the United States during the first four months of 2026, roughly 680 produced no click to any website. Not to a news publisher. Not …
Two agencies can quote wildly different prices for work that sounds almost identical. One says $2,000 a month. Another says $15,000. Both quotes can be fair if the scope, seniority, …
Canada Day is over. The fireworks went off, patios filled, staff schedules got tested, and a midweek holiday gave business owners a useful read on where customers are spending now. …
If your Google Ads Target CPA is set to $10 but the campaign has been getting conversions for $5, that $5 result may be living on borrowed time. Starting August …
ElevenLabs is one of the few AI tools that has stayed in our workflow for years. We use it for narration, audio production, video projects, voice experiments, and the kind …
Web accessibility is easy to postpone because the problem usually stays quiet until it doesn’t. A visitor can’t use your menu with a keyboard. A form doesn’t work well with …
Shopify has given U.S. vape sellers until July 7, 2026, to remove affected products from their stores or risk suspension, according to notices reviewed by Token of Trust. The notice …
A new consulting market has formed around getting businesses cited in AI-generated answers. Some of that work is legitimate: tracking AI visibility, correcting inconsistent business information, improving technical SEO, and …
Before you ask for a business insurance quote, it helps to know what an insurer will need and what risks you’re trying to cover. That preparation can make the quote …
YouTube spent more than two years asking creators to disclose realistic AI-generated or meaningfully altered content themselves. On May 27, 2026, the platform added enforcement behind that request. YouTube can …
In February 2026, an 18-year-old walked into a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, and killed six people before taking her own life. Two more victims — her mother …
AI is not the problem. AI can help people research faster, compare ideas, write better, automate work, and make better decisions. Businesses should use it. Governments should use it. Consumers …
Google still controls its search engine. But in the UK, parts of that control now have legal limits and deadlines. In June 2026, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) …