World
Searches for weather spells are up 206% on Etsy, and the biggest sellers are not love spells
An online marketplace with a rule that spells must be marketed as entertainment is still a marketplace. What the demand says is more…
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Technology
Amazon shut the door on Meta’s shopping agent, and a reservations site locked a user for booking 300 tables an hour
Meta’s Muse has been downloaded 2.5 million times and partners with Walmart, Sephora and Expedia. Amazon blocked it outright. The fight is…
World
A city that declared war on its empty shops is filling them from the top floors down
Aberdeen’s Union Street was once packed with shoppers from across north-east Scotland. The council is now filling vacant units directly and…
Technology
The Foodpanda case turns on a slip of paper every supplier in Bangladesh signs and nobody keeps
Strip out the warrants and the court and what is left is a fight about Return to Vendor slips and deductions — the ordinary plumbing of…
Technology
A Dhaka court has issued arrest warrants against five Foodpanda Bangladesh officials. All five already hold High Court bail
The managing director is among those named in two cases brought by a supplier over allegedly unpaid dues and fraudulent return slips…
Technology
Buying your Qurbani cow online: how the digital haats work in 2026, and the checks that keep you safe
Traffic, heat and hours of haggling have pushed a growing number of Dhaka households to buy their Eid animal from a screen. Farms such as…
Technology
Firefox will grade product reviews A to F before you buy — Mozilla’s Fakespot acquisition goes into the browser in November
Mozilla bought Fakespot, the start-up that uses machine learning to spot bought and bot-written reviews, and is building it into Firefox as…
Technology
Daraz at eight: 70 lakh customers, 41,000 sellers and the marketplace that outlived Evaly
Daraz started in Bangladesh in 2014 with five staff; it now employs 6,000. The numbers from its anniversary press conference, the model…
Technology
Buying the qurbani cow online: the government's Digital Haat, priced by the kilo, and the cashless cattle markets
digitalhaat.gov.bd sells cattle at Tk 475-575 per kilo of live weight with escrow, 387,000 animals went online last year, and six Dhaka…
Bangladesh
CID not arresting Dhamaka officials despite money laundering case
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police is inactive to nab Dhamaka Shopping officials who have been accused in a money…
Bangladesh
No need for new e-commerce act and regulator: Experts
Existing regulations, if fairly enforced could help bring discipline in e-commerce, entrepreneurs and experts said
Bangladesh
Lack of good governance behind e-commerce fraud: Prof Rehman Sobhan
E-commerce entrepreneurs and experts said proper enforcement of existing regulations could help inject discipline in the burgeoning online…