San Francisco-based Instacart s 5.1 million subscribers typically pay $99 a year or $9.99 a month for free deliveries on orders of $35 or more from any of the service s 1,400 retailers. Instacart also sells ad space on its site, including to Pepsi and Kellogg s, which want to promote products online.
TikTok is bringing online shopping through a series of features on its main app and is hoping to replicate the success of Asian platforms Shein and PDD Holdings Temu.
Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century.
Companies ranging from Shopify to Walmart have launched their own ecommerce platforms to compete with industry leader Amazon.com. Sellers who use those marketplaces get access to more customers, but often are saddled with more work since each platform has its own set of rules.