Cross-border intelligence

Amazon eyes 300K holiday hires

The e-commerce giant is increasing U.S. holiday staffing by 20% compared to the past three seasons.

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

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

Amazon DSP for Brands Under $20K a Month: A 2026 Starter Guide

Amazon DSP isn’t reserved for enterprise budgets anymore, but it isn’t free money for every seller with a live listing either. If your Sponsored Products campaigns are steady and your monthly ad spend clears somewhere around $7,000 to $10,0

Amazon to recruit over 300,000 US workers for holiday season

Amazon plans to recruit more than 300,000 seasonal, part-time, and full-time staff across its US core operations network for this holiday season. The post Amazon to recruit over 300,000 US workers for holiday season appeared first on Retail

Countdown to Black Friday and Cyber Monday: 4-step self-check for Amazon FBM (Fulfilled by Merchant)

Amazon Alert! IOR Verification Upgraded — Your Shipments May Be Stuck in the US

Urgent Self-Check Recommended!

[Multi-State Income Tax Filing] Series (2): A US company is registered in only one state, so why does it still need to file income tax in multiple states?

The company is registered only in Wyoming, and Amazon already collects sales tax, so why might it still need to file income tax in California and New York?

The new US IOR rules have taken effect—Amazon sellers should check their importer identity immediately!

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is strengthening verification of importer registration information. According to a CBP announcement released in August 2026, starting September 18, 2026, if the information provided by an Importer of Record (IOR) in CBP Form 5106 is inaccurate or incomplete, the relevant IOR numbe

New section on the Amazon storefront—AI summaries

New section on the Amazon storefront—AI summaries

Amazon's new dangerous goods rules effective October 26

Attention Amazon sellers! Starting October 26, 2026, the platform will implement new dangerous goods information reporting requirements for certain products. When creating or editing relevant listings, sellers may need to complete a new version of the dangerous goods questionnaire, otherwise the product information can

Amazon's front-end detail page has 3 extra lines of summary; this new change determines listing conversion

New changes on the Amazon storefront

What is WOOT BD? Which Amazon sellers is it suitable for?

The core strategy of WOOT BD lies in the "three-round drive," using three consecutive BD campaigns to gradually build up product sales and ranking weight, ultimately achieving breakthrough traffic growth.

Amazon AI Upgrade Launches Full-Funnel Advertising!

The core of this Amazon upgrade is the launch of Amazon Ads Agent, which integrates previously fragmented ad delivery and programmatic advertising capabilities into an AI-driven platform, and introduces full-funnel ad campaigns to help advertisers connect the marketing chain from brand exposure and consumer reach to fi

Protect Listings During Peak Season! Amazon's New Listing Protection Mechanism Goes Live, Good News for Sellers

This official Amazon page can tell us a lot of product selection information, and further expand product selection ideas

This official Amazon page can tell us a lot of product selection information, and further expand product selection ideas

Amazon Influencer Videos [The Hidden Ace of Store Growth]

Amazon Influencer Videos [The Hidden Ace of Store Growth]

Amazon to hire over 300,000 workers for Christmas rush

Amazon is reportedly set to recruit more than 300,000 additional workers ahead of the Christmas trading period, marking its first increase in seasonal hiring in three years. The company is ramping up recruitment by more than 20 per cent com

Amazon Uses Healthcare and Banking to Woo More Holiday Workers

Amazon will begin offering seasonal workers health coverage to attract more workers for the holiday shopping season. The eCommerce giant made that announcement Tuesday (Oct. 20) as it began its annual holiday recruitment effort, aiming to h

Workflow context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS

The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can work with Smart

Work management context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS

The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live work management data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can

From data to decisions: Conversational supply chain intelligence with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Enterprise supply chains are data-rich but insight-poor, with the data to decide scattered across ERP, monitoring, procurement, and email. This post shows how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore exposes those systems as a governed tool layer, and how

Fine-tuning GPT-OSS-20B for multilingual reasoning on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

Learn how we fine-tuned GPT-OSS-20B for multilingual reasoning on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, and how to decide between supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with GRPO. SFT took reasoning-language accuracy from 22% to 100%,

How Octave built a secure multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock

Octave built a secure, multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock, using Cohere Embed v4 for embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for isolated agent execution, to power a Complaint Triage Assistant that searches 2 billion regulated doc