Unsolicited packages may signal a brushing scam where your data is used to post fake reviews and inflate a seller’s sales, ...

Aleran’s GenAI tool helps simplify B2B sales, but with some features still developing, buyers remain wary of trusting AI with ...

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Jack M. Germain has been an ECT News Network reporter since 2003. His main areas of focus are enterprise IT, Linux and open-source technologies. He is an esteemed reviewer of Linux distros and other ...

One of the most successful direct-to-consumer shopping outlets for China-based vendors outside of China's own Alibaba e-commerce platform is Amazon. This trend has been accelerating for years.

Virtual agents and AI chatbots will be eating into search engine volumes over the next two years, causing them to decline by 25%, according to a report released Monday by technology research and ...

Embedded finance is on the rise in both the business and consumer payments markets. Analysts project its revenue will reach $1.91 trillion as adoption expands by 2028. This steady acceptance is ...

Since ChatGPT took the world by storm this year, other forms of AI creeping into popularity seem to have been slightly forgotten. However, AI and automation capabilities will become even more ...

Deepfake fraud is rapidly emerging as one of the most dangerous cyberthreats, eroding consumer trust in biometric authentication. AI-generated attacks manipulate Face ID and voice authentication to ...

Many local rural retailers are strangers to e-commerce, and the home delivery routine for rural customers is often very different from the opportunities enjoyed by suburban and city consumers. If ...

The U.S. economy is full of uncertainty. Some experts predict we will see a recession this year, but other analysts don’t see that happening, at least not yet. This contradiction is causing uneasiness ...

When WorldCom, the telecommunications giant, failed and was put into bankruptcy, the U.S. witnessed one of the largest accounting frauds in history. Former CEO, Bernie Ebbers, 63, was convicted of ...