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How to create a Black Friday social media marketing strategy

Black Friday prep is happening earlier than ever for shoppers this year. Your customers are already looking for deals online and increasingly on social Read more... The post How to create a Black Friday social media marketing strategy appea

Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data

A beginner’s guide to exploring browser network data, how it uncovered a $13,337 Google exploit, and what it reveals about Google and ChatGPT. The post Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data appeared first on Search Engine J

Critical PHP Core Security Flaws Affect Websites, Including WordPress via @sejournal, @vahandev

PHP's emergency security fixes are available today, October 21, and website owners should ask their hosts to install them immediately. The post Critical PHP Core Security Flaws Affect Websites, Including WordPress appeared first on Search E

Lakrids By Bülow celebrates 50th store launch at Battersea Power Station

Danish liquorice brand Lakrids By Bülow has opened its 50th store worldwide at Battersea Power Station in London.

Topshop collabs with Talia Byre for new capsule collection

Topshop has unveiled a new limited-edition capsule collection with designer brand Talia Byre, as part of the retailers efforts to “champion emerging British creative talent”. The collection is designed to bring the BFC/Vogue Desginer Fashio

IKEA ramps up UK sustainability drive with £31.5m fulfilment investment

IKEA is investing in right-sized packaging and a more regional distribution model as it looks to cut waste, delivery miles and emissions, all while building out its circular retail offer. The furniture giant is putting £31.5m into its UK fu

CSX eliminates more than 100 management positions

Management layoffs mark railroad’s engineering department restructuring. The post CSX eliminates more than 100 management positions appeared first on FreightWaves.

Selling supplements on EU marketplaces from the UK: why your stock location matters more than your listing

UK supplement brands spend weeks on their EU listings. They translate titles, test images and research keywords for Amazon.de, bol or Allegro. Then the order leaves a warehouse in England, and the buyer waits for a parcel that must clear cu

Visa Debuts Tools to Keep Fraud Out of Virtual Commercial Card Payments

Visa has introduced new capabilities designed to keep commercial virtual card payments safer. Visa Commercial Fraud Solutions are part of a series of new capabilities designed to bring “trust and control” to business payments, Visa said in

Autonomous railcar technology earns $16M federal grant

A federal grant will support deployment of autonomous railcar technology on a Missouri short line. The post Autonomous railcar technology earns $16M federal grant appeared first on FreightWaves.

How Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agents

First-party website, automation, AI or security update. Review the original deployment requirements.

ChatGPT Ads expands to 26 new countries as over 100,000 advertisers have used the platform

From local businesses to global brands, more advertisers can now reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.

Checkout footer visibility now applies to merchant-configurable content

The visibility fields on CheckoutBrandingFooterContent and CheckoutAndAccountsConfigurationBrandingFooterContent now control only merchant-configurable footer content. Checkout can display Shopify-provided transaction information in the foo

Set product categories on custom line items in draft orders and order edits

Starting with GraphQL Admin API version 2027-01, you can assign a category from Shopify's Standard Product Taxonomy to custom line items in draft orders and order edits. The category controls the item's tax treatment in the same way it does

New bidding and budgeting tools can transform your upcoming holiday ad strategy.

Get actionable insights on bidding and budgeting tools in the latest episode of Google's "Ads Decoded" podcast.

Google Images & Discover Previews Don’t Support JPEG XL via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Chrome and Firefox now display JPEG XL, but Google says it isn't currently supported in Google Images or Discover previews. The post Google Images & Discover Previews Don’t Support JPEG XL appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Stord acquires e-commerce competitor AMS Fulfillment in large deal

Retail fulfillment provider Stord has acquired AMS fulfillment, a large competitor. The post Stord acquires e-commerce competitor AMS Fulfillment in large deal appeared first on FreightWaves.

Meson Logistics Solutions CEO Jonathan Kwok on the Future of Warehouse Execution

Warehouse management is entering a new phase as warehouse management systems (WMS), automation, robotics, controls, and artificial intelligence become increasingly interconnected. The challenge for distribution operations is no longer simpl

NVIDIA Kumo Forecast Combines Pretrained Time-Series Representations with Historical Pattern Retrieval and Interpretability

AI Overviews have nearly doubled across five commercial search modifiers

AI Overviews now appear on 88% of the commercial keywords we tracked, up from 46%. See how coverage changed for reviews, pricing, comparisons, and more.

AI’s Stranded Capital Problem: When Hardware Arrives Before the Power

Amazon is reportedly taking delivery of billions of dollars in advanced Nvidia computing equipment before some of its data centers have the electricity needed to operate it. In Australia, data center operator NextDC has sharply reduced its

DSV set to root out low-margin business as volumes decline in Q3

Air and sea freight volumes at the world’s largest freight forwarder, DSV, saw a decline in the third quarter, but revenues grew more than 15% year on year, due to elevated ocean freight rates. According to third-quarter results released to

Dover named as CAA’s legislative affairs MD

The Cargo Airline Association (CAA) has named Josh Dover as its new managing director of legislative affairs. Washington DC-based CAA promotes and advocates for the air cargo industry and serves to support and encourage policy that ensures

Google Crawls Raw And Encoded Bracket URLs Separately via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's John Mueller says raw and percent-encoded brackets are different URLs and recommends using one form across links, canonical tags, and sitemaps. The post Google Crawls Raw And Encoded Bracket URLs Separately appeared first on Search