A rivalry is heating up between Facebook and Amazon that could lead to a power struggle between the social networking giant and the ecommerce titan over everything from ad sales to where consumers ...

Facebook on Tuesday launched a new commerce toolkit, called Shops, with a revamped model for how the company fits into the online shopping landscape. Shops will give every SMB, merchant and product ...

Facebook’s recent unveiling of Shops was a major step toward its ambitions to be a major player in not just influencing ecommerce but enabling transactions as well. It allows sellers of all stripes to ...

Facebook, Inc. (FB) is constantly looking for ways to expand into new business verticals. This is evident from the company’s investments in virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Similarly, ...

Facebook today announced a partnership with e-commerce site platform Ecwid to let its 450,000 merchants easily integrate Autofill With Facebook, a feature that lets customers pull in credit card, ...

Facebook is cracking down on shopping sites and others that bait and switch customers by delivering lower quality products than what they advertised on the social network. Today, Facebook launches a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Facebook is enlisting mom and pop stores in its fight to become an ecommerce empire. Can Facebook Shops, a new ...

Facebook wants to be more than the place where you like your old roommate's wedding photos, watch viral video clips, or share links to your favorite quizzes. It wants to be the place where you make ...

“Make no mistake, this is a data ploy,” says Bob Phibbs, CEO of New York-based The Retail Doctor. The coronavirus shutdowns have decimated small and midsized businesses (SMB). One-third of SMBs in the ...

Facebook and Instagram are adding a big new e-commerce feature: Shops. Businesses will be able to list the goods they have for sale on the social networks. It's part of a major push by Facebook in ...