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#politics #ecommerce #tariffs #Google #Temu

'Temu completely shut off Google Shopping ads in the U.S. on April 9, with its App Store ranking subsequently plummeting from a typical third or fourth position to 58th in just three days.

The company’s impression share, which measures how often their ads appear compared to eligibility, dropped sharply before disappearing completely from advertiser auction data by April 12.'

searchengineland.com/temu-pull

Search Engine Land · Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping adsThe crash of its App Store rank reveals how heavily Temu was reliant on Google advertising for paid acquisiton.

alojapan.com/1242590/fashion-r Fashion Retail Platform Lyst Sold to Japan’s Zozo for $154 Million #Acquisitons #apparel #ecommerce #fashion #FashionRetailers #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #lyst #news #PYMNTSNews #retail #What'sHot #Zozo Fashion shopping platform Lyst is set to be acquired by Japanese eCommerce firm Zozo. The $154 million deal, announced in a news release Wednesday (April 9), will make Lyst a wholly owned subsidiary of Zozo, itself another fashi…

alojapan.com/1242109/lyst-a-fa Lyst, a fashion marketplace once valued at $700M, sells to Japan’s Zozo for $154M #ECommerce #fashion #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #lyst #MergersAndAcquisitions #news #Zozo Fashion goes in and out of style, and it turns out, so do fashion startups. Lyst, a high-end fashion marketplace that was once valued at $700 million, has been acquired for just $154 million in cash by Zozo, a Japan-based fashion and e-commerce business. …

Ehrliche Preise: Großbritannien verpflichtet Handel zur Preistransparenz

Preisangaben in Großbritannien müssen künftig alle Extragebühren enthalten. Dies schreibt ein neues Gesetz vor. Auch Fake-Bewertungen wird der Kampf angesagt.

heise.de/news/Ehrliche-Preise-

heise online · Ehrliche Preise: Großbritannien verpflichtet Handel zur PreistransparenzBy Malte Kirchner

#UK #ecommerce #ConsumerProtection

'Sneaky fees that are estimated to cost consumers £2.2bn a year are to be banned from today under new consumer protection laws.

Businesses, including travel websites, ticket agencies and food delivery apps, will be required to include any mandatory fees in the headline price. Research has found these fees can be more than 25% of the product price.'

theguardian.com/money/2025/apr

The Guardian · UK bans £2.2bn ‘sneaky’ fees and fake reviews for online productsBy Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Clever: #Amazon entwickelt mit Agentic #AI eine Funktion, um Fremdkäufe seiner #Kunden zu bespitzeln und kann damit dann sein Angebot anpassen und die #Konkurrenz noch mehr zerstören.

Mit der neuen Funktion #BuyForMe bringt #Amazon die KI in den #Bestellprozess: Produkte, die nicht im eigenen Shop erhältlich sind, können künftig über Drittanbieter direkt aus der Amazon-App gekauft werden - ABER
- es läuft per Dummy-E-Mail über die Amazon-App.