Practical Ecommerce

India’s Unified Payments Interface is a government-backed peer-to-peer infrastructure launched in 2016. It allows seamless payments between two bank accounts at near-zero cost.

This week's rundown includes new services for social media, regulatory compliance, dropshipping, reputation management, fulfillment, quick commerce, and bot protection.

The best genAI content is verified and scrutinized by humans.

Eric Steckling runs two direct-to-consumer companies: Brio sells beard trimmers, and Ollie sells oral care goods.

Consumer brands have long marketed to create demand, earn customer loyalty, and win shelf space.

Google’s recently announced “preferred sources” feature is not exactly new. The feature, which allows searchers to designate websites as sources in AI Overviews and AI Mode, has been in the “ Top stories ” section of search results, which appears for time-sensitive or newsworthy topics.

Growing up and working in Europe taught me an important lesson about ecommerce: what succeeds there often underperforms in the U.S., even with the same brand and product.

New services this week address Reddit ads, email marketing, design tools, crowdshipping, agentic commerce audits, last-mile delivery, and more.

Recent quarterly earnings reports from Walmart, Costco, and Dollar Tree suggest that consumers are still spending, but are looking for low prices and perceived value.

Florence Morin is an artist-turned-engineer-turned-entrepreneur. She graduated from Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal in 2013, only to realize she disliked engineering work. She longed to earn a living from making art.