Cross-border intelligence

Sweeping up 70% of global orders, with shipowners queuing for vessels, China's green shipbuilding is going wild

Having secured nearly 70% of green ship orders for three consecutive years and with shipyards booked through 2030, China's shipbuilding industry is completing a key leap from scale leadership to green leadership.

Gen Alpha is into 'brain rot,' Douyin is already a previous-generation product—100 bold takes on 'social products' from Wapoo founder Yang Mingyu

The text era produced WhatsApp and WeChat, the image era produced Instagram and Snapchat; if AI makes video the first communication language that everyone can use instantly, then a brand-new, globally based social container should be born.

AliExpress Brand+ Emerges as a Global Launchpad for Cutting-Edge Innovation at IFA 2026

Company-issued AliExpress release distributed by PR Newswire. Check original market, seller eligibility and effective dates. Issuer statements and campaign offers are not independent research, guaranteed terms or investment evidence.

4 Ways to Increase Vape Store Repeat Purchases Without Ads

Vape brands face a hard constraint: Meta, Google, and TikTok all ban paid ads for e-cigarette products. But vaping is one of the few categories built for growth without them. Pods are a consumable, and most people need a new one within days

AliExpress Brand+ accelerates expansion into new markets, with triple-digit growth in multiple key categories in South Korea

Signing of tax pact with Slovenia marks new Hong Kong milestone in expanding international tax co-operation with 60th tax pact signed (with photos)

A heavyweight partnership list reveals new Black Friday opportunities for top Amazon sellers this year?

Multiple major brands have already received invitations

UHA味覚糖、AQUALABEL、ブレスケア──Shopee Japan、東南アジア・台湾・ブラジル7市場の7月売れ筋商品を公開

First-party Shopee Japan notices for Japanese cross-border sellers. The displayed calendar day is the publication date, separate from webinar or campaign dates. Confirm original market, seller eligibility and current registration status; company reports are not independent research.

Xero vs FreshBooks: Which Accounting Software is Better for Your Team?

Xero and FreshBooks aren’t as far apart in the accounting software space as they used to be, even if they still do clearly serve different audiences. Both of these platforms today have a lot of overlapping features, from double-entry accoun

Ahrefs Brand Radar alternatives for marketing teams

Permitted store staff can now see an identified customer's online cart in POS

Authorized staff can now view items from an identified customer's abandoned online checkout in Shopify POS. When a known customer shops in store, store staff can look them up in POS and see if they have any items in their online cart. Using

NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder

Is AI Making It So Anyone Can Run Effective TikTok Ads?

Want to run TikTok ads but find the Ads Manager interface overwhelming and the learning curve too steep? Wondering how new AI-powered tools can help create, manage, and optimize TikTok ad campaigns without needing deep platform expertise? ​

Change Gems and GPTs Into Skills, Train Autonomous AI Employees, and Industry News

Friday is almost here! Before you unplug, here's one last round of insights and updates. Whether you read them now or save them for later, you won't want to miss these. In today's edition: Convert Gems and GPTs into Skills Build AI employee

How to master payments in Europe and the UK

Explore the key trends shaping payments in Europe and delve into key strategies for success

Shopee 9.9 Super Shopping Day arrives, with multiple resources accelerating peak-season growth momentum

Get Paid Faster This Holiday: A BigCommerce Payments Playbook

Explore how BigCommerce Payments simplifies holiday checkout and operations, giving shoppers more ways to pay while saving merchants time during peak season.

Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv

Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own

Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps

Temporary suspension of the federal fuel excise tax

Official customs notice. Date is the source-listed update date, not necessarily initial publication or entry into force. Check the original for applicable requirements.

What’s new with WooCommerce 11.1: order withdrawal, image gallery updates, and more

This release includes several exciting enhancements and additions. Here's what to expect.

EU VAT rules for e-commerce, five years on: More than €125 billion in VAT revenue

New figures from Member States show that businesses are increasingly using the simplified VAT rules for cross-border e-commerce.

Migrate to WooCommerce Subscriptions without breaking billing

Learn how to migrate subscriber data, handle payment methods, check your setup before launch, and monitor those first renewals with WooCommerce Subscriptions.