AI is giving you a personalised Internet, but you have no say in it
The insistence on AI everywhere – with little or no option to turn it off – raises an important question about what's in it for the Internet companies.
PayNet, India's NPCI International ink agreement to enable cross-border QR payments
KUALA LUMPUR: Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet) and India's NPCI International Payments Ltd have signed an agreement to enable cross-border quick response (QR) payments between Malaysia and India.
JD to spend over US$180mil on worker bonus
CHINESE e-commerce firm JD said on Tuesday it plans to spend more than 1.3 billion yuan (around $180 million) during the nine-day Chinese New Year holiday in providing enhanced pay and benefits for frontline staff.
Chinese-owned Temu catches up with Amazon in global cross-border e-commerce
Shein, another Chinese-founded retail giant, stabilised its market share at 9% in 2025, while AliExpress held 8%.
Amazon testing drone flights in UK ahead of 2026 air delivery launch
Just weeks after Amazon axed its plans to launch its first drone delivery service in Italy, the company has started to test drone flights in the UK ahead of the planned launch of an airborne delivery service there later in 2026.
Beware of online ads with elaborate backstories. They may not be from a real small business
Faster and more sophisticated digital tools are only making it even harder for consumers to spot if what they are seeing is too good to be true.
China teen makes fraudulent returns on cosmetics platform, profiting US$570,000 from resale
17-year-old makes 11,900 deceptive refund applications after discovering loophole; splurges ill-gotten gains on new mobile phones, friends.
Amazon AI tool blindsides merchants by offering products without their knowledge
Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associated with Amazon.com Inc.
Google's Gemini seeks edge in AI for online shopping
Google on Jan 11 unveiled a new iteration of its professional Gemini AI suite geared toward online retail, seeking to create seamless interactions for shoppers from product searches to customer service.
Logistics sector to fare better on eCommerce boom
PETALING JAYA: While global trade is likely to be constrained by stricter carbon-emission regulations, Malaysia's logistics sector is expected to fare better being a beneficiary of the booming eCommerce and trade diversion on US-China trade tensions,
