Browsing: Merchants

DoorDash is getting into retail delivery from local mom-and-popstores with Shopify.

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May 5, 2026 – Shopify announced today financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026. Shopify achieved 34% revenue growth and 15% free cash flow margins. 

Alipay has launched what it describes as China’s first full-stack agentic commerce platform for merchants, centred on tools designed to move businesses from digital operations to AI-powered operations.

Shopify didn’t wait for the agentic era of commerce to arrive—we already built for it.

Shopify (SHOP) has a durability question hanging over it, and the answer is not in its guidance. It is in how its oldest merchants behave. The company just told investors that its Q1 2015 merchant group now generates quarterly gross merchandise volume five times its original size, a compound growth rate roughly three times that…

August 12, 2026Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, E-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Transaction Processing