Etsy Shares Jump After Depop Sale; Demand Pressures Weigh On Results
Etsy shares rose about 10% after the company agreed to sell its Gen Z-focused resale platform Depop to eBay for nearly $1.2 billion, a move
February 22, 2026
Amazon Is Closing Its Fresh Grocery, Go Convenience Stores
Amazon announced it will close all of its Amazon Fresh grocery and Amazon Go convenience store locations, citing the failure of these physical retail experiments
January 31, 2026
Visa’s Shift Toward Agentic Driven Commerce
Visa (NYSE: V) is leveraging its custom artificial intelligence (AI) technologies through its Visa Intelligent Commerce initiative. What makes this service stand out is the
January 18, 2026
Amazon AI Tool Blindsides Merchants by Offering Products Without Their Knowledge
Amazon is testing an AI-driven “Buy For Me” feature that duplicates independent merchants’ product listings and fulfills orders on their behalf, leading to fulfillment errors,
January 11, 2026
How PayPal’s Ads Manager Helps Cement Its Links to Merchants
PayPal has launched Ads Manager, a new platform that enables merchants—especially small and mid-sized businesses—to run and monetize their own retail media networks using PayPal’s
October 10, 2025
Embedded Finance Platform Parafin Secures $360M Deal
Parafin, a leading embedded finance infrastructure provider, has secured up to $360 million through a forward-flow agreement with Cross River Bank, marking its first off-balance
October 5, 2025
BIG Tech & BIG Retail Take On BIG Payments
We are revisiting an important payments industry subject previously covered by The Wall Street Journal on June 13th, 2025: the possibility of large, qualified businesses,
September 14, 2025
AI in Payments
Artificial intelligence burst into the business world on January 23, 2023, when Microsoft announced a $10 billion investment in OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT.
August 28, 2025
Demystifying AI: Core Concepts, Tools & Infrastructure – Plus a Metric Comparison of ChatGPT-5 to Grok4
This is the third installment of our AI – Payments, Commerce & Markets series, expertly constructed by Wellesley Hills Financial Executive Advisor Wayne Johnson III.
August 17, 2025